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I've told you before, if you want to learn about football you've got to watch more than just British football. :P None of the teams outside the top 2 in Scotland are as good as Aris, Panionios, Larissa, or PAOK. Queen of the South just got KO'd of the UEFA Cup by the Someshitdansihteam FC that Olympiakos' worst ever B team just beat comfortably in Denmark for goodness sake. Go check the head to head record between the Scottish and Greek teams and see the discrepancy. Samaras is doing well, bravo tou, but we can't get over excited until he starts replicating that form against strong opposition, i.e. in the CL or for the NT. Until he does that we can't get over excited. He had a good start to his Celtic career last year in the league, but didn't score in the CL or for Greece. This year his first CL game was against Aalborg(!) and he drew a blank. When he starts performing consistently at the top level we can start getting excited, until then we have to conclude that he's average. you compare cypriot league to the SPL without celtic and rangers but remember the TOP TWO(in terms of league position last season) greek sides were beaten by cypriot teams recently what does that tell you about our super league. if samaras gets 30 goals this season that will put him in the shop window more so than it would if he scored lots of goals in greece. also scottish teams have got a better record in europe, UEFA cup finalists in 03 and 08.so celtic missed a penalty and failed to beat aalborg. oly and aek lose to cypriots sides. for someone that needs to learn about football my euro 08 predictions wern't bad :D niether were my champions league predictions for last season.

you could argue that if you take pao oly and aek out the greek league than that would be weaker than the cypriot league. my opinion is ludicrous, yours is fact which you clearly proved with your fijian example.

thats just your opinion, i don't think there's much to choose between the 2.

you could also argue that all the greece based players in our NT are also up against weak opposition week in week out, you could add dellas to that list too. at least playing for celtic gives him more exposure. i think its unfair to call him average just because he's playing in a poor league, haristeas is average not samaras. torosidis and ninis play in a poor league also but i believe they are decent not average players.

Vasilis Torosidis has admitted he would be interested in a move to the Premier League. Versatile Olympiakos player Torosidis is regarded as one of the most exciting prospects in Greece and has already made 15 appearances for his country. The 23-year-old has been linked with a switch to Blackburn but he insists he has not heard anything official to suggest they are considering him. He is happy to stay at Olympiakos, although he concedes he is a fan of English football and would be tempted to join Blackburn if the opportunity arises. "Nobody has contacted me and no document has arrived from Blackburn," Torosidis told the Greek media. "It is only rumours and it is not up to me to go somewhere. I have a contract with Olympiakos. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,128...3874413,00.html

leto latest http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,128...3860987,00.html

you won't get lucas there's no chance.

Olympiakos are reportedly in talks with Liverpool over the signing of midfielder Sebastian Leto. Leto joined The Reds last summer from Lanus but has struggled for first-team opportunities since his switch http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,128...3826484,00.html this player looked really average whenever i've seen him but he is young and has time to improve. i don't think he'll be a great signing if you guys do get him by the way he plays left midfield/wing

Samaras seals Celtic return Greek striker delighted to secure permanent deal with SPL champions Celtic have completed the signing of Georgios Samaras on a permanent deal from Manchester City. Samaras spent the second half of last season on loan at Parkhead and had been keen to stay with the SPL champions. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,110...3821624,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...tic/7506849.stm

cannot believe anyone rates lua lua more than reyes he did well for arsenal and real madrid but football is all about opinionsas for luis garcia he can play right left or just behind the striker and has an amazing strike rate.

luis garcia is class and so is reyes i can't believe either of these players will go to greece. would be great for the super league if they did come

fergusons policy of intimidating refs has paid dividens again, and good luck to him if it works why not, mourinho was the same.

bad move selling alonso, he's better than barry. they need to sell voronin crouch pennant carson itanje guthrie hammill finnan and go for better players than the likes of degen otherwise itle be another season with nothing for the reds

congratulations to samaras just won the SPL with celtic. the only greek abroad with any honours this season. shows what a strong character he is and what a great attitude he has could have stayed at man city and won nothing but this has turned out to be a great move for him, hopefully he'll get a good move this summer :gr: :gr: :gr: :tup: :tup: :nw: :nw:

ferguson was very clever calls for a strong ref and for protection for ronaldo, meanwhile he instructs his defenders to kick lumps out of torres. man u will win the league, and probably the european cup too, they tend to get decisions go their way and have an ability to win when they play poorly and when they click they're awesome. i noticed the media coverage of mascherano was way over the top, i just hope the same coverage is given to the likes of terry and rooney in future. @arsenal. i don't think the lack of english players is a problem, to me its not important, 11 english players or 11 foreign makes no difference to me. put ronaldo(and a decent keeper) in that team and i'm sure they'd win the league

coventry have signed kasper schmiechel on loan til june. konstantopoulos will not play for coventry again this season, unless marshall and schmiechal get injured. looks like the new manager chris coleman is not willing to give him a chance

i remember that incident, although no apology was given they did say that the gunman mistook the greeks for israelis. i'm in no way justifying the incident though. as for playing in serbia don't believe the media hype thats made the serbs look like monsters, there is no way a greek team playing there would have any problems. quite how you can compare that with playing in gaza is amazing

exactly

hibs vs celtic highlights, bit of a colour clash http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/sol/newsid_72...&bbcws=1&news=1

great header. he's playing well tonight holding the ball up well and putting himself about. big improvement on his last game. 15 mins to go hopefully he scores again :tup:

had a bit of a nightmare today at st mirren, got taken off on 77 mins at 0-0 celtic went on to win 1-0. he looks low on confidence which is why he shouldn't of worn bright orange boots !!!

you could also add he sold players at the right time. vieira sold for around 12m henry 16.5m anelka 23m overmars & petit also went for a profit pennant went to birmingham and arsenal put a clause to get 50% of any profit they made on the player who then went to liverpool for big money ljungberg 3m

any line ups

what exactly has bianchi contributed this season ? he's hardly played hasn't scored and theres talk of him going back to italy in january. i know you don't like samara but be fair. as for mpenza he's done very little also, ok he's scored but i've seen him miss some sitters. if he was given 10 starts in a row then perhaps we could judge him.petrov and elano and good defence are the reasons for man city's impressive start

looks like he's lost his first team place, was on the bench again today.