The money, the thoughts and the decisions for 11 contracts from AEK

There is so much that needs to be done for AEK to come to a regularity in its size that you really don’t know where to catch it. In addition to the necessary personnel changes and the need to find a trainer who can safely lead the ship and move forward, decisions must be made for a variety of team players.

Of course, the next coach has to have the final say on whether the players do it or not.

Let’s look at 11 such cases:

Steven Cuber: In order to acquire its rights, AEK Eintracht Frankfurt will have to pay the amount of 2 million euros. The Swiss has already signed a contract for a further three years which, if ratified by his purchase by the German club, will be valid until the summer of 2025, with an annual salary of €1m. This can be an assumption that could be regardless of who the team’s next coach will be.

Darko Gevtic: The other Swiss in the team belongs to Rubin Kazan, with whom he has a contract until 2024. If AEK decides they want to buy him, they will have to pay the Russian team 600,000 euros, as per the option agreed upon by the two teams on the market. Not a lot of money, the question is how to use it.

Muammer Tankovic: Socrates Ofridopoulos will try to bring him back into the team’s plans although he is clearly disappointed with the treatment he has received during the season. His contract at AEK expires in the summer of 2023 and there is said to be a spectacular image change to keep him in the Union squad for reasons. Of course, the next coach should decide that.

André Simoes: The Portuguese defensive midfielder has completed seven seasons with the team and his emotional bond with Union is very strong. However, it has not yet been decided whether he will be offered a stay as he is still at large and has already acquired the right to talk to other clubs since last January. There is rumor that there is interest from Turkey and the Emirate, so maybe there will be money for him that he is unlikely to find at AEK.

Gevgen Sachov: He, too, remains free in the summer after two years full of problems, obstacles and difficult situations, such as the one he is currently experiencing with the war in his homeland. It is true that he is a significant distance from the footballer who has been in the good years at PAOK and is in the team at a time when a big improvement in midfield quality is needed. Therefore, it will be very difficult for him to continue at AEK.

Karim Ansarifard: The Iranian striker has a contract until the summer of 2023 while he is already beginning the process of obtaining a Greek passport. Of course, that doesn’t mean anything special, the position of a foreigner is not so much the problem as the demands AEK have to make of their second striker. That is, if it is considered sufficient behind Araujo or if the team needs to find another striker who competes more with the Argentine for the captain’s position and offers more security when “Chino” is absent as some muscle problems appear every season.

Costas Galanopoulos: Several years have passed since that episodic renewal of his collaboration with AEK in the summer of 2020. The national player is now entering the last season of the existing contract, which expires in the summer of 2023. So a new round of negotiations is on the horizon as he has to start in January 2023, the 24-year-old midfielder earns signing rights wherever he wants.

Clemens Michelen: He could have left in January if – as Equipe revealed – AEK hadn’t made huge demands (€2m) for his sale to St Etienne. He is not enthusiastic about his presence, nor is it a coincidence that he lost the position to Lazaros Rota, who started the season as the third pick, as Michalis Bakakis was originally considered in the competition plans. Before the latter became one of the players who immediately paid the marble of Velez’s European exclusion.

Ehsan Hadjisafi: Here, AEK must decide whether the Iranian, who has a contract for another year, makes sense as an additional solution for various jobs. Certainly his presence blocks Mario Mitai’s path from the moment he is considered to be Mohammadi’s replacement. In that case, the Union will have to decide what to do as his presence at AEK B doesn’t seem to help him much.

Stratos Svarnas – Michalis Bakakis: It doesn’t exactly belong in the same category as the former is calculated for the stakes and takes up a few sporadic minutes of competition while the latter falls completely off schedule. But these are not contracts that cost the team and for which a solution has to be found somehow.