Gustavo Pajé

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Aris
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gustavo Pajé

14 Edition

The Aris Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andronikos Kakoullis

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Grigoris Kastanos 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.

Match

Aris come up short against APOEL

APOEL left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Loan watch

David Lelle counts the days

“I watch every Aris game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Agia Napa runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Boardroom

89% of the income goes out in wages at Aris

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.

Squad

Mamadou Sané named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Mamadou Sané is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

Robert Ergas loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Robert Ergas. Aris will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Squad

When it matters, Gustavo Pajé plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

The referee tires of Charalabos Charalabous

Fouls conceded: 9. Some of it was commitment and some of it was frustration, and the free-kick count did not distinguish between the two.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Aris Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Age has not caught Alexandr Kokorin yet — 7.94

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Nobody wants to play Aris right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Tempers go at Aris

Gédéon Kalulu 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.

Match

Aris find a way past Ermis

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Rody Junior Effaghe

Marked 8.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Grigoris Kastanos runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Wages eat 102% of everything Aris earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Vaná 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.

Squad

Kamran Khalilzade left out for tactical reasons at Aris

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief