All Activity

Apparently Kedziora wants to leave and sign with Dynamo Kiev.

I think this was the right move, but poorly executed. The coaching situation should have been resolved right after the game with Panathinaikos. This leads me to believe that they really had no concrete plan after the season ended. Once again we are scrambling get things together at the last possible moment. I am really curious if we will have a coach next Monday, when the training season starts.

BYE

Looks like Lucescu's time with us is coming to an end, has been mooted for almost a month now. I think the writing has been on the wall for awhile. The Cup final loss was hard to stomach and the implosion against Panathinaikos which cost us place in Champions League qualifying no doubt sealed his fate. Although it's ending, he still leaves as PAOK's most successful coach ever and no doubt our most decorated. I have little doubt that he will return one day down the road, to steady the ship! Thanks for everything Razvan, you made us champions and returned us to the summit of Greek football! https://www.sport24.gr/football/paok-xekatharizei-oristika-to-thema-loutseskou-ola-deixnoun-diazigio-me-ton-roumano-texniko/

The Socceroos played brilliantly! Defended with numbers, compact and frustrated the Turks. The first goal was quality.

Congratz to the PAOKtzides from Oz for slaughtering the galopoula! What a nice way to wake up (game ended about 8 AM here and I will watch the highlights rightaway).

Saw that the Russkie was going to take a role as a "VP" (and I assume remain on the board). Interesting that she'd take a demotion.

The main pre-season training will take place at the Nino Sparta Training Center at Zaltbommel between June 29 - July 12. Four pre-season games will take place during that period: 01-July: tba 04-July: PAOK - Westerlo FC (Nino Sparta, Zaltbommel) 07-July: PAOK - AEK Larnaca (Nino Sparta, Zaltbommel) 11-July: tba

Sanchez did not get the start in the WC opener between Mexico and South Africa.

What's with that new CEO, Agisilaos Toumazatos?

https://inpaok.com/905425/ta-epomena-vimata-gia-ti-nea-touba-2/ I like "folia tou dikefalou aetou".

I believe Mavropanos was voted the player of the year for West Ham. He was the single reason that they almost avoided relegation. Kouliarakis is 23 and plays for Wolfsberg, rated highly. Retsos has turned aound his career and resembles that guy that secured the then record transfer for a Greek teenager. Don't care for Hatzidiakos. The next guy up would be Mihalidis. Are we world class at the back? No. But Kouliarakis (valued at $25M) and Mavropanos (valued at $18M) are more than capable.

The way Savvidis runs the club is a joke.

Once again we move at an astrnomically slow speed. These are key decisions that need to be made quickly, not a week and a half before pre-season is due to commence. There has been ample time for the club to move on Lucescu and have brought in a new manager and have been focusing on transfers and what type of player the new coach wants/needs. Instead we are here with the club seemingly scrambling late in the piece trying to figure out what the coaching staff will look like for 26-27. Poor managment and such slow decision making always sets us behind the 8 ball and it's only June. It sets us up to chase our tail for the rest of the season.

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.