Overall, Savvidis has been a god send for the club. When he came in, we were financially up s%$#! creek. Remember having to sell Vierinha and letting players go for free because we couldn't pay their wages ? Any talk of Savvidis not doing enough for the club is lunacy. Truly, when he paid off the ~10 million debt to the government I was amazed.
My only complaint about Savvidis is regarding the fiasco with managers being fired. In his first 3 seasons we had Huub, Anastasiadis and Tudor all fired roughly just after the Christmans break. Hopefully we don't go 4 for 4 this season. Of the 3, I only agreed with Huub getting fired, since he didn't want to be at the club anymore. Anastasiadis had us in the title race for half the season and although we dropped off after the Christmas break, let's face it, the team wasn't good enough for the title. Instead of strengthening the squad and trying again the following season, Savvidis took the easy route and threw another manager under the bus. At least the "fanatiki" were satiated. Tudor, yeah, he was a bit all over the place but let's remember he never said we were going for the title and he was a new manager. He was there to clear out the squad of all the older players and bring in some new blood to create a new core. To his credit, we got some decent players in like Cimirot, Charisis, Pelkas, Rodrigues and the team played all right all things considered. Again, instead of staying calm, analyzing the weaknesses and strengthening the team, he was thrown under the bus. Would Tudor have become less rigid with his beloved 3-5-2 and become a better manager in this second season ? We'll never know.
As far as player budgets are concerned, it has grown massively under Savvidis. Before that we had maybe 2 or 3 player earning ~300K and the rest were on considerably less. Now, much of the squad is on 300K, 400K, 500K etc. And that's a good thing. With better wages we'll attract better players.