The AEL Courier
Squad19 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Stevan Jovetić out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AEL will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Panagiotis Panagi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Panagiotis Panagi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AEL the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at AEL
Luther Singh 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.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Wages eat 88% of everything AEL 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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Ivan Milosavljević 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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Luther Singh gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luther Singh is on it.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Nemanja Glavčić 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 AEL, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Apr 2027
The Yannick Gomis question follows AEL around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yannick Gomis’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager comes out for Stevan Jovetić
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Stevan Jovetić has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
In brief
- Squad Antonis Stylianou is fit again
- Loan watch Savvas Christodoulou's loan at Doxa nearly up