In collaboration with Dušan Bajević, he maintained the already very good existing roster and strengthened it with Batista, who returned from Olympiacos, Maladenis and Pavlopoulos.

Bajević managing to fit all the stars of the roster in the starting eleven, built a team that seemed capable of "destroying" any domestic opponent.

AEK played incredible football scoring 87 goals in 34 matches but finished second, behind Panathinaikos, which was much less spectacular, but proved to be slightly more substantial.

Initially those rumors sounded like a joke on the side of AEK, however, the more the Bosnian-Greek coach did not deny them, the greater became the anxiety and insecurity in the club, in which Bajević was then worshiped as a god and the whole story affected the competitive part.

At the same time, a big part of the issue was caused by the eccentric announcements of the idiosyncratic Michalis Trochanas, whose behavior in general was later invoked by Bajević for his eventual departure.

A conquest that left no room for doubt, since the "yellow-blacks" after qualifying as first in their group, they eliminated with relative ease at knock-out stage Iraklis and both their rivals, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respcetivelly.