The Aris Post
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Match9 Jan 2027
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.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
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.
Match9 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Match9 Jan 2027
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 ratings11 Jan 2027
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
- Player ratings Gédéon Kalulu stands above it all
- Player ratings Nothing got past Charalabos Charalabous
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Vasilios Dedidis