The AEL Larisa Sentinel
Squad14 Jun 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Davíð Kristján Ólafsson
133 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.
The terraces14 Jun 2032
The mood at AEL Larisa has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Efthymios Giakoumakis breaks a bone — 88 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Davíð Kristján Ólafsson 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 AEL Larisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Words at AEL Larisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yvann Maçon is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom14 Jun 2032
Still nobody in the AEL Larisa dugout
13 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
In brief
- Market AEL Larisa put Diogo Lobo up for sale
- Market Michalis Papadopoulos leaves for nothing
- Market Lazaros Nikolaou leaves for nothing
- Boardroom AEL Larisa keep producing them