The AEK Sentinel
Market10 May 2027
Aboubakary Koita has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AEK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout10 May 2027
João Basso says AEK went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad10 May 2027
Tempers go at AEK
Gaëtan Laborde 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Barnabás Varga 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 May 2027
When it matters, Harold Moukoudi 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.
Market10 May 2027
AEK put David Simão up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. David Simão may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- The dugout Charalampos Lykogiannis keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Good reports on Petros Mantalos
- Squad Andreas Manolas is fit again
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Mijat Gaćinović at Antalyaspor