Well, Monday morning in the U.S anyway.  We've got readers from all over the world, so my apologies for sounding so Ameri-centric.  Still, I haven't had enough coffee, so to me, it certainly feels like Monday morning. Moving on. Press coverage of yesterday's win over PAOK here and here. Djebbour gets a nice mention of his goal in [.

Lukasz Sosin may be on his way to AEK from Anorthosis in Cyprus.   And Teko Modise rumors are getting recirculated.

We got the three points here. It wasn't a pretty three points but, at this point in time, I'll take them.

First, the video of our goal, set up beautifully by Nemeth.

Some good aspects to mention about our play today, but overall, it was not an impressive victory.

Our defence today was not the greatest, and Majstorovic and Juanfran in particular were quite poor.

This, courtesy of GolTV, is the sweetest sight I've seen in a while:

3:00 pm UEFA Europa League Everton vs AEK Athens

Greek Americans rejoice! GolTV seems to have successfully bid for the US broadcasting rights of at least some Europa League Group Stage Matches.

Here are the latest rumors circulating about AEK: Nikolaos Karabellas, 24-year-old left back currently playing with Aris, has agreed to sign for AEK for three years. Georgios Fotikas, 27-year old Midfielder currently playing for Larissa (and formerly of Kilmarnock FC of the Scottish Premier League) is set to join AEK over the Summer as well.

Yep, you guessed it, another derby on the first matchday of the season. And AEK will once again be one of the teams playing in the derby, just like last year. And who will our opponent be? Yep, its Olympiakos!

The game is still a while away but Im sure the likes of Bajevic, Blanco, Scocco, and Kyrgiakos are waiting for their revenge after our unfortunate loss in the Greek Cup Final of 2009.

So, AEK has been on the news all day, and everyday, for the past few days. The reason why? It looks like two Cypriot investors (the identities have not yet been revealed) are going to invest a large sum of money. I can't remember the exact details but I believe one of the Cypriot investors will be investing seven million euros, another will invest two million, and the shareholders already with AEK will add another six million, meaning that overall, fifteen million euros will be invested into the team.

This weekend (Labor Day Weekend here in the May-Day-Hating United States) signals the end of the Summer. The other thing that always signals the end of Summer for me is the closing of the transfer window. It's done now, but not before we squeezed in two last signings. I meant to post this a few days ago, but better late than never:

FC Twente have captured Perparim Hetemaj from AEK Athens FC in a swap deal that takes Dutch midfielder Youssouf Hersi from the Netherlands to the Greek capital.

The club from Fylis who came back from a 3-0 defecit to tie AEK 3-3 earlier this season almost got away with a another draw, this time at OAKA. However, youngster Panagiotis Tachtsidis came to the rescue in extra time and salvaged the three points for AEK. Tachtsidis, who is only 18 (he scored on the [.

Edinho scored for Portugal on his debut with the Portuguese National Team against South Africa.

Well, the deal for Gaxa, the South African right back we were previously close to signing, has fallen through. We were close to signing him at one point but his club in South Africa continued to raise their asking price until it reached one million euros. There was no way AEK was going to spend so much so instead we have signed the second right back that we were looking at, Carlos Araujo.

UEFA has a nice piece up on the Roger Guerreiro signing.

And the BBC has an article up on the Krisztian Nemeth loan deal with Liverpool.

ESPN says that Everton face a tricky trip to Athens to play us, but the Liverpool Daily Post seems a bit less worried. We'll show 'em.

An extremely disappointing result today for AEK in Giannena.

Our starting lineup consisted of Saja, Araujo, Majstorovic, Arce, Juanfran, Hersi, Guerreiro, Jahic, Manduca, Nemeth, Pavlis.

I can't comment much on the first half since I could only watch the second half, but from what I heard we saw some decent passing from the team.

The FIFA Under-20 World Cup starts tomorrow (Thursday) in Egypt, and ESPN has identified eleven players it believes will stand-out in the tournament. Among them is our own Krisztian Nemeth:

Krisztian Nemeth (Hungary & Liverpool)
Krisztian Nemeth joins Liverpool team-mates Andras Simon and keeper Peter Gulacsi in the Hungary squad, although he is currently on loan to Greek side AEK Athens.

A huge win for us, absolutely incredible! So many good things to say, its going to take a while. I believe AEKBaltimore recorded the game since it was on in the US as well, so hopefully he will have some more comments as well.

First off, let me just repeat that once more. AEK 1-0 Benfica.

Just as the rumors regarding Lauren transferring to AEK pick up steam and appear more credible, now comes the additional news that former Chelsea center back Adrian Pettigrew has accepted an offer from Bajevic for a trial. If this is true, it marks the start of a good new year for AEK.  Last summer, we lost [.

Well, after a long sixteen game wait, AEK finally got its first away win of the season, as well as its first back to back wins. The team's performance overall was not wonderful, especially not compared to the performance they displayed against PAOK only a week earlier. In fact, the football that the team played brought [.

We lined up like this: Djebbour Blanco Scocco Ensaliwa Pelletieri Kafes Juanfran Georgeas Kyrgiakos Majstorovic Saja Alves came in for Juanfran, who seems to have picked up an injury, in the 24th minute.  Edinho came in for Ensaliwa and around the 63rd minute and Manduca relieved Georgeas in the 77th.

Well, alot has been going on with this secret letter which was released earlier this week regarding the financial status of AEK. There is so much to say that it cannot all be discussed in here, and, unfortunately, there are no links in english that I can find relating to the story.

Basically, Melissanidis will have to take over soon or the team might not make it through this.

Yet another big win against our northern rivals, this time with a scoreline of 3-1.

Videos below:

It was a fairly confident win against PAOK this time with goals coming from Djebbour, Blanco, and Scocco. There were some questionable calls from the ref (including a red for PAOK, which I agree with but could have been avoided by PAOK) and some calls not made (including a hand ball from Kafes which wasn't called).

AEK have recently signed left-back Nikolaos Karabelas who currently played at Aris.

This is a decent transfer. The defender is 24 years old. Bajevic is already familiar with him since he coached him while at Aris. This should certainly help since both Karabelas and Bajevic know each other already.

We've continued our summer transfers after singing Romanian Ilie Iordache (Winger) and Greek Defender Kosta Manola. Manola is the 18 year old nephew of Stelios Manolas. Some are saying that siging of Kostas might conivnce Stelios to stay on board with us, after he clearly stated that he would like to leave.

So, were going to be heading to Romania on the 20th of August to play Vaslui. We will play them again on the 27th of August, this time in Athens.

A pretty good draw for us. We could have gotten Red Star from Serbia, who I believe could have caused us some trouble, but Im somewhat confident now that we will get through to the group stages.

So, we lost this one but it was not at all a bad performance by our team, and was definately the best game we've seen AEK play all pre-season. First of all, goal highlights.

Unfortunately I haven't seen a video with more highlights uploaded yet, but we had many chances, just as many if not more than Boca.

Some important comments to mention about yesterday's match.

Firstly, our to team put on a good performance. Even now more can be improved on. but it was a solid game for the most part with some enjoyable football.

This is definately a good result. On paper, Iraklis are certainly not a pushover this year with some pretty impressive signings being made for them over the summer.

Obviously not the result we were hoping for. The lads did indeed show up to play tonight but the final touch wasn't there. Creating and finishing chances is a huge part of football though, so we've only ourselves to blame (well, maybe the refs can share the blame!). I was stuck in the office for this match, but I was able to watch a low-quality stream for about twenty minutes in the second half.

45 minutes in and we're leading this one 1-0! Blanco scored a penalty (certainly the correct call) to put us up and we now are in a great position and the win is definately possible.

Conditions are terrible in Minsk. It is extremely cold (near zero degrees celcius) and the pitch is extremely wet.

Well, our night went from good to about as bad as it could get. As you can see from the post below we were up 1-0 at half time.

The second half started and early on Majstorovic gets his second yellow and is sent off and Bate tie the game. So, one of our key players is sent off, the pitch condition is deteriorating (and it was disgusting to begin with) and we were loosing the control over the game we had before.

So, as is typical with AEK, we blow an early 1-0 lead and end up with a draw (today, the match against PAS, the Cup Final, the match with BATE).

My stream today was poor quality, so I can't comment as much as I could have. But basically what we saw throughout the match was that we had many chances, yet we only scored one of them.

So, I was wrong when I predicted we likely would not go through to the next round of the Cup.  This is one of the many times in my life that I am happy when I am wrong.  A nice bit of play from the lads gave us our late goal.  Nsaliwa to Edinho to [...]

AEK put five past Panserraikos in Serres this evening, with two goals coming from Blanco, two from Djebbour, and one from Scocco. Panserraikos' goal came from a penalty. AEK, in what was arguably one of its best performances this season had no trouble with the team from Serres. Considering Pnaserraikos had just come back from beating [.

EPO has said that AEK will be the home team for this year's cup final. This is good news for AEK, and hopefully it will mean we get to choose our gates (AEK wants gates 1-35, a significant portion of OAKA, about half), our locker rooms, and whether our fans arrive by train (instead of busses).

The match against Larissa ended 0-0 yesterday.

A report can be found here.

As the article states the draw means little for us. Either way, we can still qualify for Champions League as long as we beat Panathinaikos this Sunday. However, we did not play as well as we should have one week before the biggest game of the playoffs.

Well, some good news today. Firstly, Saja has officially singed on for another three years! This is great to see. He has proven himself to be right for the job and hopefully we'll see another three solid years.

It is almost certain now that Kyrgiakos and Kafes will play this weekend. This is great news for every AEK fan, and it should greatly increase our chances of winning the game against Panathinaikos this weekend.

Well, a press conference was held a few days back with regards to the new investors who were mentioned the post before. The deal has been confirmed, as most people expected, but still the names have not been revealed. Even at AEK only a few people (Notias, maybe Thanopoulos) know who they are.

Well Liverpool have confirmed everything here. Its as close to a done deal now and all that remains is the medical. AEK have also stated that they will not get in his way if this it what Kyrgiakos really wants.

While I'm proud to see Kyrgiakos going to play abroad for Liverpool what is disgusting me is the way Liverpool are trying to negotiate things.

There are loads of articles out there in the interwebs today regarding Kyrgiakos' move to Liverpool. I'll just link to some of the more widely-read sources, such as the BBC and the Telegraph. TVNZ, a site I'd never visited before today but which boasts that it is the "Best Sports Site" according to Quantas Airlines, is reporting on a statement supposedly put out by Kyrgiakos apologizing to fans and clearing up confusion over remarks he made just a week earlier when he claimed he would not move to PAO and was going to play for AEK for Four years:

Liverpool new boy Sotiris Kyrgiakos has delivered a public apology to Greek fans after realising his lifelong dream.

We got the loss here I was fearing. Perhaps not a pleasing result but immediately we notice the away goal we scored. This will help us alot since really all we need in OAKA now is 1-0.

Before anything else two points must be pointed out. Firstly, Scocco was out for this match due to cards and will play with us for the next match.

Due to the fires noetheast of Athens, the two matches in Attiki, the AEK-Olympiakos derby and the Panionios-PAOK match, have both been postponed.

It was unfortunate, as I was excited about the match, but it was a needed desicion. Hopefully, nobody will be killed by these fires, and I really hope it gets under control soon.

Yes, we are through to the next round of the Europa League after a commanding performance at home. I haven't seen the game but I believe AEKAlex went, so he should be posting a review later. No many highlights up on the interweb yet either, but I did manage to find the first goal. Enjoy: