Marked for Simon Davis
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Aug 2038
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aris will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Aug 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2038
Gustavo Pajé 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.
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vincenzo Alfieri
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aris lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Jul 2038
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Jul 2038
Only the photograph left for Gianluca Rossi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gianluca Rossi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Jul 2038
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jul 2038
Gustavo Pajé 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.
Market26 Jul 2038
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Aris will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
In brief
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Market
Aris bring in an old head
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Market
The clock does Gianluca Rossi’s negotiating for him
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Steady
Squad19 Jul 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vincenzo Alfieri
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aris lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Jul 2038
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market19 Jul 2038
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aris, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Jul 2038
Tempers go at Aris
Gustavo Pajé 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.
Squad19 Jul 2038
Liam De Smet 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.
Market19 Jul 2038
Add another name to the list: Ermis have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Simon Davis. The answer from Aris has not changed — yet.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2038
Vincenzo Alfieri damages knee ligaments — 53 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 53 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.
Market21 Jun 2038
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Jun 2038
Gustavo Pajé 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.
Squad21 Jun 2038
Zoran Mitrov 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 Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2038
7 new faces, and Aris are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market21 Jun 2038
Ermis are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Aris will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
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Market
Aris shop where it costs nothing
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Market
The shop window has Vincenzo Alfieri in it
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Boardroom
The Aris production line keeps running
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2038
Vincenzo Alfieri damages knee ligaments — 67 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 67 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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2038
An order from above at Aris: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Market7 Jun 2038
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Jun 2038
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexey Sukharev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom7 Jun 2038
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alexey Sukharev has agreed terms with AEL for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad7 Jun 2038
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Aris are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Uneasy
Player ratings18 Jan 2038
Age has not caught Liam De Smet yet — 8.76
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.76 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad18 Jan 2038
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2038
Tempers go at Aris
Veljko Nikolić 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.
Squad18 Jan 2038
Defences have started doubling up on Gustavo Pajé
6 goals and a season average of 7.62 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad18 Jan 2038
Gustavo Pajé 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.
Match16 Jan 2038
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Liam De Smet. 3‑2 against Nea Salamis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings18 Jan 2038
Ninety minutes of Gustavo Pajé at his very best
Marked 8.85. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aris.
Player ratings18 Jan 2038
Ninety minutes of Leonardo Cruz at his very best
Marked 8.63. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aris.
Market18 Jan 2038
The Simon Davis conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Ermis will make the call about Simon Davis this week. Aris have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
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Crisis
Market12 Oct 2037
Bence Babos hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aris can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2037
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Oct 2037
Gianluca Rossi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aris have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings12 Oct 2037
Age has not caught Liam De Smet yet — 8.03
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings12 Oct 2037
Matteo Onofri pops up at the right end — 7.70
7.70, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market12 Oct 2037
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Aris is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match10 Oct 2037
No end in sight to Aris's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aris has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Oct 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2037
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Aris and Paralimni in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
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Match
A bad afternoon for Aris against Paralimni
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Match
No clean sheets in sight for Aris
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2037
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market14 Sep 2037
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aris, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2037
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.49 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market14 Sep 2037
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Aris is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2037
Aris get the job done against Apollon
A 3‑2 win over Apollon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match12 Sep 2037
Still nobody has beaten Aris
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match12 Sep 2037
Aris keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings14 Sep 2037
Ninety minutes of Gustavo Pajé at his very best
Marked 8.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aris.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2037
A knee injury of the worst kind for Veljko Nikolić
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aris lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 Aug 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2037
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Pajé 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.
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Upbeat
Squad20 Jul 2037
Veljko Nikolić damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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.
Market20 Jul 2037
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aris, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad20 Jul 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Jul 2037
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Pajé 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.
Squad20 Jul 2037
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Yaroslav Sosnikhin has just signed for Aris, and for once the answer mattered.
Market20 Jul 2037
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alfred Mazurich has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Aris.
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Upbeat
Squad13 Jul 2037
Veljko Nikolić damages knee ligaments — 51 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 51 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.
Boardroom13 Jul 2037
The numbers do not look good at Aris
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Market13 Jul 2037
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aris can pretend not to have heard.
Market13 Jul 2037
Only the photograph left for Simon Davis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simon Davis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Jul 2037
Tempers go at Aris
Veljko Nikolić 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.
Squad13 Jul 2037
The manager makes an example of Matteo Onofri
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Jun 2037
Veljko Nikolić damages knee ligaments — 74 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 74 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.
Market22 Jun 2037
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad22 Jun 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Jun 2037
The manager makes an example of Jan Hellebrand
“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 Jun 2037
Ross McCausland has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Aris 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.
Market22 Jun 2037
Nea Salamis are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Aris will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Jun 2037
Veljko Nikolić damages knee ligaments — 88 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 88 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.
Market8 Jun 2037
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aris, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market8 Jun 2037
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad8 Jun 2037
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tamkin Sheydaev and Aris agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Jun 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jun 2037
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Pajé 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.
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Upbeat
Squad11 May 2037
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aris have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market11 May 2037
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aris, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 May 2037
Tempers go at Aris
Gustavo Pajé 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.
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Upbeat
Market13 Apr 2037
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad13 Apr 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market13 Apr 2037
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Aris is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Upbeat
Market16 Mar 2037
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aris, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Mar 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market16 Mar 2037
Only the photograph left for Simon Davis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simon Davis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Upbeat
Match14 Feb 2037
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑2 against Agia Napa, and it could have been more.
Squad16 Feb 2037
The match ball belongs to Matteo Onofri, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings16 Feb 2037
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.75 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market16 Feb 2037
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aris can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Feb 2037
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aris may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Feb 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market16 Feb 2037
Only the photograph left for Simon Davis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simon Davis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match14 Feb 2037
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Aris and Agia Napa, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings16 Feb 2037
A performance of 9.56 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
Ninety minutes of Ville Vuorinen at his very best
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Player ratings
Leonardo Cruz in the eights
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Upbeat
Squad9 Feb 2037
There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad9 Feb 2037
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Veljko Nikolić and Aris agree another 2 years.
Squad9 Feb 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Feb 2037
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad9 Feb 2037
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Pajé 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.
Market9 Feb 2037
Paralimni are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Aris will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Match7 Feb 2037
Aris and AEL cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. AEL came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market9 Feb 2037
The name of Charalabos Charalabous keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aris say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings9 Feb 2037
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Jan 2037
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Jan 2037
Defences have started doubling up on Gustavo Pajé
8 goals and a season average of 7.71 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad12 Jan 2037
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jan 2037
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Pajé 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.
Match10 Jan 2037
Three points for Aris, 3‑1 the final word against Paralimni in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings12 Jan 2037
Liam De Smet was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings12 Jan 2037
Gustavo Pajé was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.21. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings12 Jan 2037
A performance of 9.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market12 Jan 2037
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Aris will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Steady
Match6 Dec 2036
No mercy from Aris
Ethnikos Achnas will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Aris were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad8 Dec 2036
A fracture rules Luken Díaz out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aris will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad8 Dec 2036
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Boardroom8 Dec 2036
An order from above at Aris: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad8 Dec 2036
Tempers go at Aris
Veljko Nikolić 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.
Squad8 Dec 2036
Defences have started doubling up on Gustavo Pajé
7 goals and a season average of 7.65 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market8 Dec 2036
Only the photograph left for Simon Davis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simon Davis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings8 Dec 2036
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings8 Dec 2036
Tommaso Aliata was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.43. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Nov 2036
There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad10 Nov 2036
Veljko Nikolić: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aris have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad10 Nov 2036
Luken Díaz breaks a bone — 54 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings10 Nov 2036
A brace, and Tommaso Aliata takes the afternoon — 8.89
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tommaso Aliata provided it, and the 8.89 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match8 Nov 2036
No end in sight to Aris's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aris has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad10 Nov 2036
Tempers go at Aris
Veljko Nikolić 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.
Market10 Nov 2036
Only the photograph left for Simon Davis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simon Davis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match8 Nov 2036
Aris are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match8 Nov 2036
6 goals as Aris and AEL go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Aris and AEL, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.