The AEK Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
AEK turn down Albirex Niigata for Luka Jović
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Federico Versaci would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Federico Versaci is living that version at AEK, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lovro Majer signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lovro Majer commits to AEK for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Barnabás Varga wants more than AEK are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market10 Aug 2026
Federico Versaci arrives at AEK as the heir apparent
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Federico Versaci is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Thomas Strakosha
- Market The clock runs on Luka Jović's contract