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It comes down to one thing: Ketsbaia has lost the locker room because of the lack of tactical work and planning he has done all season. Just look at our goals this year, all of them have come from inidivual brilliance of Almeida and Patito, or by mistakes from the other teams. Our players are literally lost out on the field and are calling him out for it. We played well in the first 3 games because we have good players, not because of the coach. We should be playing better with this group of players, we have a very strong starting 11 and decent depth in all but two positions. The way we played yesterday was way worse than we played in the 6-0 loss in 2010 or 2011, and a ton worse than we did in 2013 when we got relegated. Give Poyet or Dellas this group of players and the game yesterday would have been very different. Sure, Olympiakos did step up yesterday, but we allowed them to do so. We gave Fortounis tons of space and time to pick us apart, we handed them two goals, we didn't pressure them in the middle, we didn't test their backline. The game against AEL after the break is do or die for Ketsbaia, I would have personally fired him already because he is dangerous, but Bajavic has decided to give him another chance.

I am not saying that our boys are better than the players mentioned above, albeit not far behind and arguably in the same class. What I will say is, referring to your point about these players` notoriety world wide is that they all grew up in massive footballing nations with top class academies which gave them the opportunity to stand out and the exposure to be scouted by top clubs. Our poor guys started at Apollon Petalidiou and Pannaxiakos before going to AEK in a Greek Super League with already little credibility in developing talent. I do not want to make this a topic about nationality, but there is a vivid contrast in the exposure our top talents get compared to that of players from Germany, Spain, Brazil, Italy, etc.

Pathetic.

One day you'll tell your grandchildren, while watching PAOK STILL fighting for a championship, with some hack at CF missing tet a tet opportunities "Paidia.....Ama mporouse na balei gol autos o abalos......ston PAOK tha epeze? Etsi elege o theios o Thanasis!"