The AEK Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Karim Soliman would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Karim Soliman is living that version at AEK, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market24 Aug 2026
Alexander Callens puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AEK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Panserraikos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AEK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lovro Majer 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 AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
AEK plan ahead with Karim Soliman from Masr El Makasa
The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Karim Soliman comes from Masr El Makasa for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kaan Kairinen 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.
In brief
- Market The scouts were sure about Jeremy Antonisse, and AEK believed them
- Squad A season on the outside for Karim Soliman