Dutch Eagle

You play at home unless there are COVID-19 related airtraffic problems that prevent the awayteam going to country x. As Greece is also one of the neutrals (good joke BTW: Rizoupoli is also one of the 7 Greek appointed venues that are appropriate according to UEFA) I see no problem playing at Toumba.

Home game against Besiktas!

Nika Ninua, a 21-year midfielder from Dinamo Tbilisi will sign a three year contract tomorrow when he arrives in Thessaloniki.

Rapid Wien. Defenitely. Besiktas Viktoria In that order of preference.

And away at Ararat-Armenia it is.

The draw for Q1 CL is tomorrow at 13:00 EEST. Omonoia is seeded and will meet An unseeded team: Group 3 Seeded Ludogorets (BUL) CFR Cluj (ROU) Omonia (CYP) Unseeded Budućnost Podgorica (MNE) Ararat-Armenia (ARM) Floriana (MLT) The draw for Q2 CL will be Monday at 13:00 EEST.

Symeon Papadopoulos has signed for Volos with a free transfer.

Did not see Warda. Wasn’t he our second player who tested positive?

Comedy capers.

Even Wernbloom is playing right now.....

HT 0-0

Good to see Jaba back. Giorgos Vrakas is on the bench. This youngster went to Napoli but is allowed to take part today if Abel wants to.

And OFI has a new club logo:

At Rapid Vienna there was also a player with a positive COVID19 test. And with an overall increase off positive test around the World I’ m not sure if the European season will (or must) commence as scheduled. A lot of countries are returning to the phase they were in around the end of March: code red or at least orange. edit: all tests at PAOK were negative today!

Ζίβκοβιτς , Πασχαλάκης , Ρέι , Μελίσσας, Μιχάι , Βαρέλα , Κρέσπο , Ίνγκασον , Μιχαηλίδης , Διαμαντής, Τσαούσης, Ροντρίγκο , Μάτος , Γιαννούλης , Βέρνμπλουμ , Εσίτι , Ντόουγκλας , Τσιγγάρας , Μπαλογιάννης, Σβαμπ , Ελ Καντουρί , Πέλκας , Μπίσεσβαρ , Ζαμπά , Λημνιός , Τζόλης , Ουάρντα, Άκπομ , Σφιντέρσκι , Κούτσιας are travelling to Pilio tomorrow. Douglas Augusto and Misic are for the known reasons not included. Youngster Hatzistravos is injured and Stoch is not allowed to take part because of COVID-19.

This is the last year for the current European format. We might as well qualify for once now as CL and EL become a private party for the happy few from the 2021/2022-season: https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/General/02/58/61/42/2586142_DOWNLOAD.pdf Greece is now #17 but with a good run of FC Basel in this year’s EL that will restart this week could end #18. Only the Greek champion qualifies for the Q’s of CL. Q2 if #17, Q1 if #18. Only 4 champions of the minnows qualify for CL GS............... The CW, N2 and N3 qualify for Q2 of the new Conference League. No Greek clubs in the (new) EL!!!

Doxa is in Cypriot hands now: https://fcdoxadramas.gr/ekleise-oristika-kai-ekselissetai-omala-i-symfonia-me-tous-kyprious-ependytes/

Also Dietmar Berchtold according to inpaok.com. Just one game. Just like Gspurning. Should be easy for Schwab becoming the best Austrian ever at PAOK. He will be wearing jersey #22 (available since Lamprou left).

There might be someone with COVID-19 at the club. All test so far were negative though: https://www.gazzetta.gr/football/superleague/article/1500234/upopto-kroysma-koronoioy-ston-paok

He is going on loan to FC Twente. The purchase clause is €4 mil. Don't think Twente can buy him unless they win the lottery in the near future.

Probably he wasn’t succesfull. He is now going to Larisa: https://www.metrosport.gr/apo-tis-akadimies-toy-paok-sti-nyremvergi-kai-meta-sti-larisa-274229 Don't think we will get some extra money......

Karnezis moves to Lille for three years in a package deal (Victor Osimhen to Napoli for Karnezis + 50 € mill). He will earn about 1.5 € a year. Not bad considering his age (35).

Even quicker. August 3 is the day entries for European Cups close. The rules are there. Covid-19 wasn’t included though. UEFA allows FA’s to apply rules made by that FA. But also like criteria that follow sportmanship. GD is subjective. AZ might have won just one game of the remaining games with 7-0 and would have been first on GD. But those games aren’t played. The HTH games are played and thus more an objective criterium to determine the ranking. And we are talking about a lot of money. The Dutch champion or rather participant for that spot will 99,99% be in GS. Startbonus is € 25 mil.!! Can’t see it happening too, but they have a point in my opinion. Look at France. There the League was ended too and the French FA reversed the # of Stade Reims and Nice. GD of Reims was better but HTH was in favor of Nice.

020 did not win the League! And AZ is still trying to persuade the Dutch FA that AZ should be in the champions path and 020 in the League path. Because they beat 020 twice (2-0 and 1-0 convincing victories) but just had a worse GD (with equal points) in the unfinished championship. If this happens we still might face those ........

Barkas signed a four-year contract at Scottish Premier League champions Celtic. Good for him. And AEK who gets £ 5 mil + bonusses.