The Asteras Gazette
Squad26 Aug 2030
Julián Bartolo damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad26 Aug 2030
A fracture rules Nico Föllmi out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Asteras will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets26 Aug 2030
No thanks: Diego Valdés rejects the move
Asteras had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Panathinaikos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Tempers go at Asteras
Julián Bartolo 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.
Squad26 Aug 2030
The step up is real for Yéli Traoré
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.
Transfer targets26 Aug 2030
An offer of $30.0K for Manuel Falón
Asteras have gone to Aris Thessaloniki with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom26 Aug 2030
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Asteras
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets26 Aug 2030
Asteras rebuffed over Andrea Maran
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cesena have kept their man, and Asteras go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market26 Aug 2030
Asteras promote Manolis Diamantakos from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Manolis Diamantakos has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Vasileios Pelkas joins the Asteras first team
- Market Petros Nikolaou steps up from the Asteras academy
- Market Efthymios Papastathopulos steps up from the Asteras academy