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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).

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/

All our pre-season games will be televised on OPEN TV.

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.

Sweden 2-2 Greece FT I'll take it

Apparently Panathinaïkos tried to get us kicked out of the hotel and playing grounds as their choice did not meet their standards and ours were/are much better. The brave Dutch declined.

ΠΑΟΚ: «Πάντα κομμάτι αυτής της οικογένειας ο Χρήστος!» Το αποχαιρετιστήριο μήνυμα του Δικεφάλου, στον πρώην Τεχνικό του Διευθυντή Τον Χρήστο Καρυπίδη, μετά από επτά χρόνια παρουσίας, αποχαιρέτησε επισήμως η ΠΑΕ ΠΑΟΚ, με τον πρώην Τεχνικό διευθυντή του Δικεφάλου να συνεχίζει την καριέρα του στον ΟΦΗ. Στο μήνυμα του, ο επίσημος Δικέφαλος αναφέρει σχετικά: «Η συνεργασία μας με τον Χρήστο Καρυπίδη έφτασε στο τέλος της. Τον ευχαριστούμε για τον ζήλο και την αφοσίωσή του αυτά τα επτά χρόνια, μέσα σε απαιτητικές περιόδους που είχαν δυσκολίες αλλά και πολλές όμορφες στιγμές. Ο Χρήστος παραμένει πάντα κομμάτι αυτής της οικογένειας. Του ευχόμαστε κάθε επιτυχία στο επόμενο κεφάλαιο της καριέρας του. Καλή συνέχεια, Χρήστο. https://inpaok.com/907386/paok-panta-kommati-aftis-tis-oikogeneias-o-christos/

Starting lineup for today's pre-season friendly:

The next season Superleague will continue to have 14 teams. There was a vote to expend it to 16 teams and eliminate the playoffs, but the vote failed. The two new teams in Superleague will be Kalamata and the fake Iraklis (PO Triglia Iraklis).

And Ozdoyev wished PAOK well.

NAME: Aritz ELUSTONDO Irribarria POSITION: Center Back JERSEY NUMBER: 6 BIRTHDAY: 28-March-1994 BIRTH PLACE: Beasain, Spain HEIGHT 1.80 m PAOK DEBUT: 06.01.2026 (PAOK – Atromitos 1:1) NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: Real Sociedad, Beasain, Real Sociedad B CONTRACT ENDS: 30-June-2028 (+1 year option) SALARY: € 1,200,000 per season

A picture is worth a thousand words, etc etc

Apparently so. Not that it's any of our business. Also, I really doubt that this is the reason for his decision. It hasn't been an issue preventing him from playing on the NT for the previous 3 years.

He's a Jehovah's Witness?!

Guy's gonna end up streaming fortnite on YouTube

Let's see if he can break the record that was set by the last Italian manager we had.

The pre-season games are almost set. The first 3 are confirmed, while the last one is not officially confirmed yet. 01-July, 17:00 EEST: PAOK - SK Beveren 04-July: PAOK - Westerlo FC (Nino Sparta, Zaltbommel) 07-July: PAOK - AEK Larnaca (Nino Sparta, Zaltbommel) 11-July: PAOK - Twente Enschede

No, @PaokCT. System is: winner advances to EL Q3 with the coefficient of the highest ranked team (our coefficient in this case). Loser advances to CoL Q3 with the coefficient of the lower ranked team. Here it gets more confusing: if we play Dynamo and lose we will take their coefficient of 17.500 and will be seeded as the split seeded/unseeded is 10.875/10.750 at this point. But this is subject to changes as not all seeded teams in Q1 advance as supposed to the seeding system. If we play Universitatea Cluj and lose we will be unseeded as they have a coefficient of 5.050

Well said pash, agree with just about all of it! Those 3 key points will make or break whether Lisci is a success or not. Just on Pusic, I am with you I wasn't thrilled at that potential appointment either. I think it just speaks to how disorganised the team is and how poorly Lucescu's exit has been handled. There is no reason he couldn't have been moved on a week after the season concluded. The club handcuffed themselves by how slow they were to make the decision. I hope Lisci is a success and has a great career with us. It is always hard to be the guy that follows a club's most successful manager.

As was the case last summer, they're saying we want Chatzidiakos again. Don't know how realistic that is considering he's been with Copenhagen for only a season. Though I'll note that last season didn't seem to go too well for them, as they ended up (barely) in the bottom half of the table. But, confusingly, still managed a conference league spot for this summer. https://www.transfermarkt.us/pantelis-hatzidiakos/profil/spieler/144244 Tbh I doubt he'd be too expensive. Age isn't terrible as well, and we obviously need a replacement for Kedziora (and I generally support actually having Greeks on the roster).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Koleosho actually played in the program I coach in… born in my town in Connecticut. Pretty cool story

Watching this game reminds me of all those games were we would just pass it back to the goalie all game and pray for an over the top pass from the GK or a corner to win…

https://www.paokfc.gr/nea/20260606-anakoinosi-pae-paok/

This is funny: https://7a0.com.br/en You can pick your all time World Cup team through a randmeer and it will simulate matches against other (great) teams from the past.

So I'm seeing stuff today (on instagram) claiming that Vieirinha is the new TD, but also that Leo Matos (!) is the new TD, but also that it's actually Vieirinha but Leo Matos is doing something with Brazil. Who knows where this will end up (and what will happen with Karypidis). Or if it truly matters.

That came out of nowhere. Slight touch off the inside of the post, just enough

MASOURAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Goal!!! wow

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Hopefully we take these 2 friendlies seriously and prepare for the fall matchups vs good competition. Whatever happens, qualifying for the Euros is a MUST.

There are more players. I remember Prijovic playing for Serbia at the 2018 WC while being a PAOK-player. Glykos was subbed in at the 2014 WC when the first keeper (don't know his name) was injured. He was at PAOK at that time. Swiderski played in the 2022 WC just after he left us for the States. Your friend Christodoulopoulos was for sure. I have to dig in my brain. And maybe the internet. There must be more players. I remember the squad lists in "Voetbal International" mentioning PAOK as the current club. Not only in the Greek National team.

Koulouris was transferred on August 25th of 2025 to Al Ula in Saudi Arabia. Fee was € 4M.