The Asteras Gazette
Squad1 Mar 2027
The knee: Lovro Majkić out for 27 days
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Asteras lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad1 Mar 2027
66 days out for Junior Mendieta after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Asteras will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market1 Mar 2027
Kiko Olivas asks to leave Asteras
“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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Asteras turn down FC Lahti for Anhá Candé
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Kiko Olivas wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Asteras can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Asteras
Mady Camara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- The dugout Benjamin Mbunga Kimpioka gets it from the manager
- The dugout Nicholas Gioacchini knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout A door opens for Federico Macheda
- The dugout Panagiotis Tsintotas keeps his manager's vote