The AEL Larisa Sentinel
Squad20 Sep 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Davíð Kristján Ólafsson
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AEL Larisa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match18 Sep 2032
AEL Larisa taken apart
0‑4 to Olympiacos, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match18 Sep 2032
7 matches without a win for AEL Larisa
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around AEL Larisa are no longer polite ones.
Squad20 Sep 2032
Tempers go at AEL Larisa
Yvann Maçon 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.
Squad20 Sep 2032
Stepan Hryhorashchuk 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.
Squad20 Sep 2032
Viktor Rumyantsev 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.
Boardroom20 Sep 2032
Nobody left the AEL Larisa dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market20 Sep 2032
Dimitrios Samaris leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Dimitrios Samaris leaves AEL Larisa the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market20 Sep 2032
Alexandros Pelkas leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alexandros Pelkas leaves AEL Larisa the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Stylianos Papagiannopoulos leaves for nothing
- Market The clock does Matteo Dashi’s negotiating for him
- Boardroom AEL Larisa keep producing them