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its official, he's signed a 5 year contract with roma who paid genoa €2,500,000 for his services.genoa made decent money out of him and papastathopoulos

fantastic effort by our boys, we've just beaten england 2-1 after extra time to reach the final of the U19s euro championships, kapino was harshly red carded so we had to play a large part of the match with 10 players but still prevailed. this looks like a really decent side they were fantastic in the group stages, and are able to retain the ball really well. future's bright :gr:

sotiris ninis has signed a 5 year contract with Parma and will continue his career in serie a.

i think petsos is on the verge of joining newly promoted Greuther Fürth on a 3 year deal and will continue his career in the bundesliga

just won another scottish premier league with celtic :tup: :gr: :nw: :gr: :tup:

signed a 1 and a half year deal with lokeren and will continue his career in belgium, he's already made 6 appearances for his new side

according to this article he signed a 3.5 year deal worth 700k a year, that russian must be well caked up to give him that, great move financially and monaco seems like a nice place to live but french second division??http://www.sentragoal.gr/article.asp?catid...pubid=128938068

signed a deal until the end of the season with serie A side cesena

signed for sampdoria who are languishing in 11th in italy's serie b

cheers for the info, i hope he's a success there but what worries me is whether samsunspor get relegated and gekas ends up playing second division football again.

what a super move for him i hope it works out well for him, does anyone know how long he's signed for??

lets hope so as the NT is short of decent central midfielders

fallen out of favour at racing after a row with the manager. maybe a january move on the cards http://www.contra.gr/Soccer/Spain/Primera/...er.1511835.html

made his first appearance for eintracht coming on in the 84th minute in saturdays 4-3 win over alemmania aachen. not sure if there's any truth in the rumour but he's been linked with a january move to PAO.

14 appearances so far this season, seems he's playing regularly something he's not managed to do before in his career. :tup:

http://sport.scotsman.com/football/Celtic-...-lay.6845821.jp

moras looks set to sign a short term deal at swansea until january http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,117...7214087,00.html

this was the case 2 or 3 years ago but not anymore, the standard in scotland has slipped, if you go back further, to the days of larsson then i'd of said the scottish league was far better, there was more money in scotland in those days and scottish teams attracted top players, thats no longer the case though i wasn't questioning his ability but his attitude, like i said he had the look of a man that didn't care, i watch a lot of la liga i've seen basinas at the bernebau a couple of times and i followed his career closely from his mallorca days onwards, he looked like he didn't want the ball, as though he wanted to get through the game doing as little as possible and didn't have the orexi to track back, the sad thing is that when he did get involved he was actually quite decent but he simply didn't put the effort in. Referring to Basinas, Hadzibegic(manager of arles) stated "I do not want such stars. I want players sacrificing themselves for the team, fighting from the very first minute." if he had the desire he'd still be playing(karagounis, dellas and lybe, less ability but more effective) he skived his way through the latter part of his career. samaras has ability, his vision and passing are excellent, i don't know if you saw our friendly with bosnia but ninis had a goal ruled out for offside in the first half when he was miles onside, the long diagonal pass samaras played was simply stunning better than the ones in istanbul and ukraine, i like players that have that vision. samaras simply doesn't score enough but i think he and gekas/mitroglou would work well together for greece. to say he's shite or lacks ability is simply wrong. the comparison to basinas is a valid one, both appear lethargic and both are effective when they actually get involved.

basinas was lazy, he had the appearance of a man that didn't care if his side had won or lost, the games i saw him at mallorca he looked lethargic as though he didn't want the ball, for AEK he couldn't care less, at portsmouth he only had a couple of decent games against lower league sides in the cup and at arles he was pretty much sacked, i never really saw much of him at PAO so i can't comment on the early stages of his career. so like samaras he was also dropped by every manager he played for. if sammy is so shite why is he always picked for greece?? after all we have salpi vellios gekas mitroglou athanasiadis kapetanos lyberopoulos and even haristeas.

he's been linked with french, spanish and italian teams recently so the italian and french teams concerned must think he's good enough for that level. if he's so bad one wonders how he's managed to get 48 caps for greece basinas was a lazy cumbersome sort of player but never got this level of criticism

3 starts and 1 sub appearance in hellas verona's opening 5 games

tzavellas hasn't played this season, but i heard he's been given a late call up into the greece squad for our upcoming matches as spyropoulos has dropped out injured. not sure how fit he is. its a shame frankfurt went down as i feel tzavellas is far too good for second division football.

he got rave reviews because he's a top player, who wasn't given a chance at milan. i think he was used at right back last week?

moras has been offered a contract by cesena worth 400k per year but has yet to make a decision. i don't think he'll get a better offer and will probably end up taking this one

schalke won the german super cup 4-3 on penalties after the game finished 0-0 papadopoulos played the whole game at centre half. more silverware :tup: :gr: :nw: :gr: :tup: