From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ismael Páez 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Paralimni will be the happier side with the point.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rody Junior Effaghe’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Wes Foderingham for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Aris will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Aris
Gédéon Kalulu 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.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Rody Junior Effaghe has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ismael Páez
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for Aris, 1‑0 the final word against Ermis in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
19 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
99% of the income goes out in wages at Aris
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Aris march on in the cup
Paralimni are out and Aris go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Yannick Gomis yet — 7.97
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.97 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ismael Páez 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Aris supporters have found a favourite in Vítor Meer
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Vítor Meer has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.66 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match26 Sep 2026
Pafos take the points off Aris
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Steeve Yago 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 Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismael Páez 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Aris
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustavo Merino, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Aris?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Anorthosis? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.60 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
5.76 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
51 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Aris
Gustavo Merino 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gédéon Kalulu 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Steeve Yago 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 Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Abdoulaye Sow is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismael Páez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Kokorin, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
In brief
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Market
Experience through the door at Aris
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Market
Experience through the door at Aris
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Match
Point won or two lost for Aris?
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Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Steeve Yago decided nobody was going anywhere. Omonoia had no time left to answer.
Market31 Aug 2026
Atromitos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Aris did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Steeve Yago, 33, rolls back the years — 8.71
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.71 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Aris, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Aris
Gustavo Merino 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Aris
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market31 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Giorgos Kastanos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market31 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dimitris Makris has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match29 Aug 2026
Omonoia made Aris work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
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Squad
5 new faces, and Aris are still learning each other
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Squad
Ismael Páez dropped after a run of poor form
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Squad
Gustavo Pajé falls out with a teammate over standards
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Mamadou Sané hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aris can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Chahid el Allachi has left for Apollon in a $930.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Aris
Gédéon Kalulu 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Veljko Nikolić 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Aris would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market24 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mamadou Sané’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Aris say no — this time
The offer from Apollon for Chahid el Allachi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Aris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Pasquale 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Doxa are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Aris will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market17 Aug 2026
Aris bring in an old head
Fernando Pasquale is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Aris has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Omonoia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Aris did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Aris get their man
The chase for Vítor Meer ended with $670.0K changing hands and APOEL out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gédéon Kalulu and Aris agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gédéon Kalulu 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Aris
Veljko Nikolić 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
The phone has started ringing about Dennis Bakke Gaustad again, and this time the name on the line is Paralimni. Aris are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Wes Foderingham and Aris agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Steeve Yago 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 Aris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
Connor Goldson is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Aris has been clear about where Connor Goldson stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Veljko Nikolić 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Aris, another week without a signature from Alexandr Kokorin.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.