The AEK Sentinel
Market9 Aug 2027
Jeremy Antonisse says no to Poltava
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Jeremy Antonisse had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market9 Aug 2027
Hakim Sahabo agrees terms with Hellas Syros
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around AEK people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market9 Aug 2027
Business is business: Aboubakary Koita goes
Olympiacos paid $5.8M and AEK took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market9 Aug 2027
Lorenzo Pirola 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Ayoub El Kaabi 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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
AEK rebuffed over Balša Popović
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olympiacos have kept their man, and AEK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
AEK lose Roberto Pereyra
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
When it matters, Harold Moukoudi plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Ante Vuković still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at AEK would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- The dugout Jan Repas has been promised minutes
- Squad An empty peg next to Ayoub El Kaabi
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ayoub El Kaabi