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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 37, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad14 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 AEL Larisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.61 on the card, and the AEL Larisa support went home talking about one name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paschalis Staikos, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Panathinaikos will be the happier side with the point.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Goni Naor knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AEL Larisa, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody is after Angelo Sagal’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Angelo Sagal suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AEL Larisa have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
PAOK come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AEL Larisa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Davíð Kristján Ólafsson 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 252% of everything AEL Larisa earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Julien Ngoy
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Erick Ferigra
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Triumph
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 33. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Jani Atanasov
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Facundo Pérez
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad31 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 AEL Larisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leandro Garate, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Asteras made AEL Larisa work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at AEL Larisa signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Kosta Aleksić 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 AEL Larisa can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee is $1.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Kifisia drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yvann Maçon 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 AEL Larisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $680.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Panetolikos drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yvann Maçon 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
AEL Larisa bring in an old head
Martín Lucero is 36 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
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at AEL Larisa would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Leandro Garate suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AEL Larisa have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market17 Aug 2026
The shop window has Luca Andrada in it
AEL Larisa have let the market know Luca Andrada can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yvann Maçon 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
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AEL Larisa, another week without a signature from Angelo Sagal.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Jani Atanasov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yvann Maçon and AEL Larisa agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Yvann Maçon 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 AEL Larisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Nikos Melissas's contract
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Luca Andrada is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AEL Larisa has been clear about where Luca Andrada stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Pione Sisto has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at AEL Larisa that is a harder question to answer.