The Aris Post
Squad9 Jul 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Antonis Alexandrou
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aris lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market9 Jul 2029
Juraj Badelj asks to leave Aris
“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.
Market9 Jul 2029
Michalis Theodosiou agrees terms with Pafos
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Aris people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market9 Jul 2029
Yacine Bourhane has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aris they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Juraj Badelj 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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
The step up is real for Alfonso de Luca
At 23 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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Rody Junior Effaghe has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market9 Jul 2029
Ethnikos Achnas expected to open talks for Domingos Quina
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Aris will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout9 Jul 2029
Alex Opoku Sarfo knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Aris, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout Jaden Montnor gets picked when it counts
- The dugout The manager comes out for Juraj Badelj