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He keeps saying and repeating it that he has one more year in his contract. The question is if the Matos/Vieirinha duo want him to be the coach for the upcoming season. Rumors now are that PAOK is negotiating with some Qatari team to give them Lucescu if they pay the contract clause (4 mil). The sticking point appears to be that all this was done without Lucescu's knowledge. The worst thing is that we are week and a half from the start of training and the coaching position is questionable.

Are they solid? I hate to keep sounding negative but a CB who just got relegated with West Ham and another who plays in the Danish league is not my idea of solid. I know we don’t have much better but still. Tough to see what the answer is.

That’s very true. Hopefully someone grows into that role. They need a leader in the middle of the pitch who also has the skills to back it up.

From an attacking standpoint, we have enough talent - Tzolis/Delias/Karetsas will be stars. Pavlidis/Teteh/Kostoulas are good. We have Tzimas as well how got hurt or would have been called up. Midfield is challenging. Mouzakitis just won young player of the year. Zafeiris is good, but putting him and Mouzakitis creates a small lineup. The back four - Tzimikas/Giannoulis are fine. Mavropanos/Kouliarakis/Retos should be more than solid. Rota/Vaggianidis are average at best. With this lineup, we should be getting results. Where we have a problem is at CDM/RB.

Toursounidis did not score but his fellow PAOK-tzis Antonis Aretis did. Toursounidis is the nephew of Giorgos btw.

unless I'm mistaken, Toursounidis who scored another one of the goals is also a PAOK player, no?

He broke his own contract to return to Russia and now five months later he's linked to us? Bizarre.

Yes we are much improved, and there are in fact a number of good young players in the mix right now which is positive. Perhaps I was being overly negative in the display but in truth I was referring to a midfield player who can create and unlock defences for our strikers. Yes a maestro. Smaller nations have produced better players in this position. To get the ball to our forwards and to take the ball and calm the play down. Too often we are overrun in the midfield there is not enough presence there at the moment. Hopefully Karetsas and others can show in the coming Nations League and Euro Qualifying.

The old Pafos coach looks to be in the running if we don’t retain him. Juan Carlos Carcedo.

Didn't he say like a week ago that he's staying? What a shock

The U19 Greek NT defeated Kazakhstan 4:2 in the final qualifying game and finished in 2nd place in the group. This means they will continue in the qualifying competition. Berdos of PAOK scored 2 goals.

Latest reports are that we offered 4 mil to Augsburg, 3 mil + 1 mil in incentive bonuses. It remains to be seen if Augsburg will accept it. It also looks like the chances of Lucescu continuing as a coach of the team are 50/50. I think they need to resolve the coaching matter as soon as possible.

Before everyone says that you need defense to make tournaments… why have we failed to qualify in over 10 yrs for a tournament ? We got results against the big teams in our groups. Spain a couple years ago comes to mind, but you know what costed us? NOT SCORING AND GETTING 3 POINTS AGAINST THE WEAKER TEAMS. Time and time again. In the current expanded euro and World Cup formats we just need second in a qualifying group. That’ means scoring and beating the Lithuania’s, Finland’s, kosovos of the lot. If we lose 4-1 to the pot A team in our group so be it. Better than stealing a draw from a France only to then tie to Gibraltar and lose even more points.

I just don’t think I can agree with this. Yes Mouzakitis and played bad but between him Zaferies we have some young decent midfielders. I’m not saying great, but better than the last 10 years of midfielders. Are they Karagounis level? No but the biggest problem we have is defense. We don’t have the players to revert back to a defensive mindset. Our best defender got relegated in the Prem this year. Tsimakas sometimes plays for Roma, koulorakis may become something but still. We don’t have Socrates, Manolas, torosidis back there. For the first time in our nations history we have attacking creative players. We need a coach that can emphasize that. When you put a kourbelis, bouckalakis, Masouras, Mantalos on the field they make the rest of the creative players around them worse and stifle them. We need to clean house player wise and get a creative coach.

I guess Olympiakos has pulled out of the Giannoulis sweepstakes. He wants to only return to PAOK, but we are hardballing Augsburg. We upped our offer, but still isn't what they want. I'd give 2 mil + incentives if we win the league. Something like 2 mil, which can increase to 3.

We can fire Ivan we can do a lot of things but we have no midfield. We have nobody in the midfield to control the game and or distribute. Greece needs to revert back to defensive tactics and set piece play because they can't hang with anyone on the pitch right now. Don't see anyone in the pipeline either. Discouraging that Greece cannot produce these players. A Tsiartas or Zagorakis would really help the squad right now. Even Fortounis.

It was announced that the first training session of the new season will be on June 22, 2026. The following youngsters will be joining the rest of the players for this pre-season trainig: Dimitris Berdos, Dimitris Bataoulas, Giannis Sarris, Bedri Dounga, and Giannis Kosidis.

Looks like Giannoulis might be heading to Olympiakos. They are apparently offering 1.5 mil more to Augsburg than we are. I don't really think the player is worth the 5 mil that Olympiakos is willing to pay. Also, today Matos and Vierinha had a first meeting with father Savvidis and sons, so I would expect to start hearing solid transfer news from now on. What is interesting though is that there are no mentions of Lucescu's inputs on the transfer matters. It will be interesting to see Lucescu's coopderation with the new team directors.

The issue is that it shouldn't be this way. We went backwards so fast...

This team is a mess, they will finish last in the nations league group. one win in our last 9 games... We cant score, can't defend, no system. Forget making tournaments.

All the goodwill he had from the uefa qualifiers and the nations league is gone. We are going backwards. Anyone that has seen our last few games could tell.

1 win out of last 9. Think its time for Jovanovic, he cant take this team much further. We play like results dont matter when the reality is international soccer is about building a winning culture.

Greece 0-1 Italy FT Normally this wouldn't be a bad result, but that was a very experimental Italian side. Also winless in our last 5 games, and if you look ahead, I don't know where the next win is coming from.

Coach needs to go now. We lost to the Italian C team essentially… should’ve done what the Italians did and only play youth in these friendlies. I don’t need to watch another 15 min Tsimikas cross delivery fifa drill

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