The Aris Post
Squad10 Sep 2029
The knee: Riad Bajić out for 100 days
100 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aris lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad10 Sep 2029
9 saves: Wes Foderingham was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market10 Sep 2029
So close: Adebayo Adeleye’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Ermis moved on, Adebayo Adeleye reports back to Aris, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Match8 Sep 2029
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.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A falling-out at Aris
Juraj Badelj and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Sep 2029
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.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
The manager makes an example of Symeon Solomou
“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.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
Interim Coach on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Interim Coach after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Market10 Sep 2029
No place for Andreas Dimitriou in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Andreas Dimitriou has his answer from Aris; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Market Aris bring in an old head
- Match Aris and Apollon cancel each other out
- Looking ahead Marios Ilia goes back to face Anorthosis