Jack Barnes

Striker - AEK
1 Dec 2041
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789 Edition

The AEK Sentinel

9 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match7 Sep 2041

The run at home goes on for AEK

20 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match7 Sep 2041

No mercy from AEK

Asteras will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. AEK were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings9 Sep 2041

Livan Burcu, 36, rolls back the years — 8.29

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.29 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad9 Sep 2041

Martin Georgiev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Martin Georgiev commits to AEK for another 2 years.

Squad9 Sep 2041

Diogo Nascimento 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 AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Sep 2041

Livan Burcu 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.

Market9 Sep 2041

Asteras watching Alexandros Fortounis

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AEK have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad9 Sep 2041

Marco Ribeiro 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.

Market9 Sep 2041

AEL Larisa expected to open talks for Ozan Celik

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AEK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
763 Edition

The AEK Sentinel

11 Mar 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Mar 2041

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ozan Celik

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AEK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad11 Mar 2041

Hilmir Rafn Mikaelsson says AEK went back on their word

“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.

Squad11 Mar 2041

Martin Georgiev 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 AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

716 Edition

The AEK Sentinel

16 Apr 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Apr 2040

Leon Chiwome breaks a bone — 121 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Apr 2040

Tempers go at AEK

Livan Burcu 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.

Market16 Apr 2040

Konstantinos Georgiadis has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AEK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

708 Edition

The AEK Sentinel

20 Feb 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Feb 2040

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lazaros Tsimikas

60 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AEK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match19 Feb 2040

Admira Wacker take AEK apart in Europe

0‑3. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.

Squad20 Feb 2040

Tempers go at AEK

Livan Burcu 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.

Market20 Feb 2040

Konstantinos Georgiadis has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AEK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom20 Feb 2040

Doors closed at AEK

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad20 Feb 2040

A smaller club would suit Iason Georgakopoulos now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether AEK can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

Squad20 Feb 2040

Giannis Theodosoulakis 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.

The terraces20 Feb 2040

Everybody has an opinion about Iason Georgakopoulos

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Market20 Feb 2040

The João Abreu question follows AEK around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with João Abreu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

  • Match Point won or two lost for AEK?
  • Player ratings The one thing Jack Barnes could not do
  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Livan Burcu