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Contreo is full of crap. He's not serious, I doubt this has anything to do with his family, he's just using teams around him as levers, to get the best possible deal. Paok may be his end game or not. I think he might have a toxic mentality. Or maybe he doesn't want to leave his current city and he's porpusly dellaying everything. So I dunno if he's gonna be a possitve addition. Madrid didn't want to keep him, Sporting got rid of him so yeah... There night be something wrong.

We are F***ed...

Is Coentrao such a good signing, look at his transfermarket, the guy seeming went downhill... Time will tell

Maybe if the player himself wants to leave? And hes being a total dick to everyone around in Braga? Dunno... The football world is weird. And most articles are just click bait anyway; more clicks, more revenue, which means more bullshit.

Hey if you buy 100 young midfielders one of them is going to turn out to be a messi... right? ? I do hope they get one or two experienced midfielders, our midfield is where are team chokes especially in the 2nd half. Osama, https://www.transfermarkt.com/osama-rashid/leistungsdaten/spieler/95429/plus/1?saison=2018 7 goals and 7 assists in the whole season, captain. Wouldn't be a bad buy. Seems like he can keep the ball in the midfield, and organise the play. Hes got a through ball too.

Don't see a 23 old really being able to help for this champions league. This is a long term play. We would probably have to buy someone else and older for the midfield.

Like I said we need midfielders, no matter how good your defence is, its useless if we cant hold the ball (dominate the midfield) and organise an attack. Its no good if the opponent keeps getting the ball No matter how s%$#! your opponent is sooner or later they will find a way to score, even if it is a fluke. The best defence is attack. We can't depend on our wingers to carry the game forever, its too predictable and they obviously get tired in the 2nd half, theirs no Verinha going up and acting like a midfielder to save us. Warda is bust, due to his mentality, unless the Portuguese coach has a magical way to make him work (I sure hope he does), would at-least get us a reasonable midfield sub.

Hes only 19 years old, paok can still make cash off him even if he doesn't play for paok.

A team owner can only invest 30 million per year out of his own pocket. Not sure if he invested anything during winter or not.

Our midfield is non existent for most of the duration of the game.

Pashalakis alone can net 15 million. Hes a great goalkeeper, not an average one. He wont be easily replaced.

Our midfield is a little bit weak, it shows especially against bigger opponents and even against smaller opponents, we had trouble getting the ball from defence to the attackers without using our wings. Often paok was defending and just kicking the ball away, no one was there in the midfield who was able to hold the ball or organise an attack. However that transfer well may not be too useful for this seasons champions league (maybe a few years down the road he will develop into something), his 23 and he will definitely doesn't have any real experience at that level.

Well theirs still room for transfers, so if he or the management believes something is necessary then he will probably get it. I wouldn't think he would accept a position at Paok if they didn't allow him additional transfers. He's style of play might not be that compatible with the players at disposal.

Lucescu left because he didn't get to keep a player he wanted and he didn' get to buy the player he wanted. He apparantly got offered a really good deal, so he wouldn't leave for money but decided to leave because he was but-hurt about something. Paoks transfers in the last few years where pretty much on-point so what the management was doing I believe was right. I never ever thought that lucescu was a irreplaceable coach. I didn't like how sometimes paok would get stuck in the midfield, where there was nothing driving the attack. Was it lucescu fault? Maybe? Perhaps it was the formation? Did he ever even request better midfielders? Probably never, did he propose an offensive midfield? Our last few transfers where all concentrated on attackers, defenders, and wingers, nothing ever was really done for the midfield. (I dont think Oliviera helped the flow of play) Funny enough a lot of goals came from Viehrinha, when he abandoned his defensive position and pushed forwards and acted like a pure midfielder. When he did that against benfica, suddenly, Paok was threatening. So next year we wont have a Vieirinha abandoning his defensive position to score goals and create chances, and yet we didn't get a midfielder? Its seems like something is missing here. He cruised the 2nd half of the league, probably due to the firepower he had, but even then the managed to draw games he should had won. I still think Paok would had won the league this year even if it had a different coach.

This is potentially Old Toumba's goodbye party.

Where can we watch the fiesta?

That's why I think it would be better to drop the league to even fewer teams, 14 causes too many problems, it means a 28 match league, and it means that they need to crap out 2 more games due to the contracts, and most attempts to introduce playoff the title race cause too many extra matches, if both teams where to play both home and away, you could have the top 5 competing in the playoffs, but then that would take the chance of number 6 and 7 to potentiality entering Europa league. So perhaps the solution is to drop the teams even and have everyone play each other 4 times. With 12 teams, we have 44 games, and with 10, 36 games. But the quality of the league would be better, there would be more interesting matches, fuller stadiums, more revenue etc, and no playoff system to complicate things. Right now 14 team league is a weird mid ground, where many solutions just don't quite work out right. This is an old article from 2017 about a greek league with 10 teams: https://www.contra.gr/Soccer/Hellas/Superleague/super-league-me-10-omades-kai-4-guroys.4501085.html

If there's going to be a playoff system, everyone should take place, including number one, so 1-7. This ain't a bad idea, that would just ensure that the best team actually wins the league and not the team that had the best record against teams like OFI, but still wouldn't quite eliminate the problem of this weak teams being there. But no s%$#! like one team plays only home games, and the other way, like what the F*** is this s%$#!? And 5 rounds? That's ridiculous? Just let the 14 leagues play itself out, and at the end have an extra few games. Generally speaking, 14 teams are really hard to deal with, if you want everyone to have the same chance (home and away), you end up with a 50 match league. However I would still prefer a simpler 10 team league where everyone plays each other 4 times, with no playoffs, like in Switzerland, Greece doesn't quite have the number of teams that can remain competitive. And that system woul alienate most of these "filler content" teams.

Paok needs to invest in some better midfielders for champions league; need some more "glue", faster, skilled players with more vision. I dunno if Oliviera fits that bill, we need players that can constantly create chances from the midfield.

Oh..... if only you knew... Greek teams will need to start spending more soon too. Overwise greek top talents will be getting poached by other teams.

I like how Tsipiras and his cronies are the sources of all evil, yet all these systems existed before them. Same s%$#! happened with Nea Democratia , and Pasok and their cronies. So don't be happy that the government is changing, you're just going back to the people who caused this mess originally.

What is he waiting for? For Tsispras to gift Panathinaikos 19 million? If the guy really cared for Panathinaikos he would have paid it off himself, but no he even made the fans re-paint paint the stands. If he really knew what was better he would have sold it off too, I don't believe that both the Asian and both Giannakopoulos and were not serious about acquiring the team, I believe that Alazoufos is just too arrogant and proud to sell it off, delaying everything until the other person loses interest. Or he simply doesn't want to sell Panathinaikos as he might have long term profit oriented motivations. He doesn't want to sell and he's trying to portray himself as messiah whos trying to save Panathinaikos.

Olympiakos further reducing the budget for transfers: https://www.sdna.gr/podosfairo/superleague/article/578884/xamilonei-metagrafiko-mpatzet-toy-olympiakoy Not what I would imagine they should do, especially since Olympiakos scouts have been doing a poor job lately. Seems like its strategy based on the fact that they think their squad is good enough and just needs a few adjustments, without even considering that the competition might spend big. Or that they just gave up, or that Marinakis would rather take care of his new premier league team.

Not according to the rules, we ain't allowed to do that. I think the loopholes are sponsorships and aksizi kefaleou.

Well, you can't just buy players anymore because your owner has money, UEFA will knock at your door and say you're out the next two years even if you qualify. It's definitely not as simple as that.