The AEK Sentinel
Match22 Mar 2032
AEK are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 58 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market22 Mar 2032
Levan Osikmashvili is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AEK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market22 Mar 2032
Arkaitz Mariezkurrena raises the bar for AEK
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at AEK heard it as anything else.
Squad22 Mar 2032
Tempers go at AEK
Lovro Majer 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2032
The manager makes an example of Manuel Mónaco
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad22 Mar 2032
AEK count the cost of losing Anastasios Tzavellas
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout22 Mar 2032
Emerson Batalla has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AEK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Boardroom22 Mar 2032
Belts tighten at AEK
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Market22 Mar 2032
The Lovro Majer talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AEK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Loan watch 7 goals on loan for Krasimir Todorov
- The dugout Shola Shoretire knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Country calls for Christos Zafeiris