Thiab Mohamed

Goalkeeper - Aris
18 Jan 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Thiab Mohamed

24 Edition

The Aris Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Grigoris Kastanos breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Aris make home a hard place to visit

11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Boardroom

Robert Ergas has agreed to leave Aris for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Match

7 unbeaten for Aris

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Aris did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Leon Balogun in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Thiab Mohamed at Aris

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thiab Mohamed is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words at Aris training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gédéon Kalulu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Aris get the job done against Paralimni

A 1‑0 win over Paralimni, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alexandr Kokorin

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Aris Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Grigoris Kastanos out for 28 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aris will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Omonoia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Aris did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Wes Foderingham

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Thiab Mohamed asks to leave Aris

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Gédéon Kalulu in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Aris

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Anderson Correia falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Rody Junior Effaghe takes the honours

Marked 7.83 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Aris had the best player on the pitch.

Match

Aris and Ermis take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

17 Edition

The Aris Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Still nobody has beaten Aris

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Mamadou Sané says Aris went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Aris

Leon Balogun was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Gédéon Kalulu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Another clean sheet for Wes Foderingham

8 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Wes Foderingham has given nobody the chance.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ross McCausland

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

16 Edition

The Al Wahda Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Age has not caught Dušan Tadić yet — 7.85

At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.85 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Al Wahda

Dušan Tadić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Saša Ivković falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Al Wahda find a way past Al Shabab

Al Shabab made Al Wahda work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

Al Wahda supporters have found a favourite in Brahima Diarra

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Brahima Diarra has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Christian Benteke gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Brahima Diarra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Al Wahda pick somebody else ahead of Oumarou Diadje

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

Mohammed Ali leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Mohammed Ali leaves Al Wahda the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief