Kiko Olivas

Central Defender - AEK
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Kiko Olivas

54 Edition

The AEK Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Roberto Pereyra puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at AEK, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Ângelo has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether AEK can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at AEK

Ângelo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Real improvement from Argyris Argyriou at AEK

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Argyris Argyriou is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

AEK rebuffed over Marios Siabanis

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Volos NPS have kept their man, and AEK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Kervin Arriaga wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at AEK hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Words at AEK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aboubakary Koita 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Giannis Michailidis

“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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Lefteris Choutesiotis is in the works

AEK have made the call to Atromitos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

  • Squad AEK are still strangers to each other
  • The dugout When it matters, Kaan Kairinen plays
  • Market Kiko Olivas is free to find somewhere else
Back issues
3 Edition

The AEK Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

PAOK come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AEK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Kerim Mrabti says no to Ruch

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Kerim Mrabti had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Giannis Michailidis

AEK asked and PAOK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

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.

Squad

Emmanouil Kourbelis out for 54 days

The medical room confirms 54 days on the sidelines for Emmanouil Kourbelis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

14 new faces, and AEK 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.

In brief

  • Squad A row about effort at AEK
  • Market Experience through the door at AEK
  • Market The Lovro Majer talk will not go away
  • The dugout Harold Moukoudi keeps his manager's vote