Marked for Benjamín Oyanedel
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad24 Jul 2028
76 days out for Nurettin Çakır after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. PAEEK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at PAEEK
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market24 Jul 2028
“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.
Market24 Jul 2028
The bid was some way short and PAEEK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PAEEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jul 2028
A row about effort at PAEEK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Malbašić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
No signings allowed at PAEEK
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
The PAEEK debt reaches $19.4M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
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Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Guus Beaumont
86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. PAEEK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words at PAEEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Malbašić 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at PAEEK
Benjamín Oyanedel and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“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.
Looking ahead15 Nov 2027
ASIL Lysi next, and one man in the PAEEK dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad6 Sep 2027
105 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. PAEEK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market6 Sep 2027
Kevin Rivas hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what PAEEK can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
PAEEK close the window on a squad of their own making
22 in and 14 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad6 Sep 2027
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
PAEEK asked and Aris said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
126% of the income goes out in wages at PAEEK
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at PAEEK
Andreas Kapsis 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.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Owede Onowakpo, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at PAEEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Malbašić 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.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Wages swallow 141% of the PAEEK income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A falling-out at PAEEK
Stefan Kordić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Jun 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at PAEEK, another week without a signature from Miloš Vranjanin.
Squad14 Jun 2027
PAEEK are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Voždovac: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Voždovac have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Benjamín Oyanedel and PAEEK agree another 4 years.