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I'll stop calling him a tight ass if and only if he brings Steven Fletcher or a striker of similar quality.

Soiledis has been released. Buononotte closed to be sold for a some money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahima_Bald? This guy is rumored to be close to signing with us according to French and Greek sources. 27 year old Striker from Senegal, doesn't look that great to me but we'll see if these rumors are true anyways.

PAE has came out and said that we will not sell Simoes for anything less than the 7.5 million euro ritra. We also made an offer to Katsar be the third choice midfielder behind Simoes and Johanson. He seems pretty decent, played many years in the Bundesliga. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojko_Ka?ar I'd love it we get Ka?ar, and Zuculini back on loan, have 5 really good central mids when everyone is heathy, not including Mantalos. We need depth this year with 3 competitions.

We've rejected a 4 million euro offer from Real Betis (coached by Poyet) for Simoes. Good move. Che I think we can all agree that when healthy Cordero is a quality player, but the problem is that for like 3 seasons now he's barely been able to play from all the muscle injuries. We just can't count on him anymore, he's given a lot to the team but it might be time to let him go.

Rumors of Juan Cala starting up again... Please please please bring him, the guy was a paixtara. He wants to come back also.

Mak just assisted Slovakias goal, nice little run into the box and nice pass.

Vellios also most likely going to Nottingham Forest for 1.2 million euros. We were interested in him, but that's a ton of money for a player that's only scored like 20 goals since 2009. We can find someone better for less money.

Meh. 50 games played in the last 5 years is nothing impressive even if he played at Barcelona for a year. He'd be an upgrade over Arzo for sure but not much.

I've only heard of this rule being brought up once, my understanding is that two teams with the same owner can't take part in the same European competition. For example, if PAOK and Rostov both qualified for Champions League with Savidis as owner then one or both of the teams wouldn't be allowed to participate. Realistically this isn't a real issue. Savvidis is a smart business man, he should know by now to not own the team on paper, and to put two different companies as owners of the teams. That's the way Melissanidis has been in charge of AEK, even though that's a different situation and, I'll admit, is border line illegal.

After the Bakasetas or deal Panionios won't be selling us any players unless we pay the full release clause on their contracts. Barkas himself cost us 700k, the transfer values of Greek players is very inflated right now.

700k and a percentage of the next sale to Atromitos for Barkas, just when I doubt him, Melissanidis spends the cash, I hope he continues and brings in Vellios. Loria's deal is on hold and it depends on Barkas, if Barkas is willing to stay on loan at Atromitos for a year then we will sign Loria. If he wants to come right away then Loria won't be signed. We are off to a much better start this offseason than last year, assuming we do sign Barkas of course.

And all of a sudden we've reached a deal with Atromitos to sign Barkas, Let's see what happens in the end, I'm not sure what we will do with Loria, Anestis, and Barkas. Unless they have Loria on "stand by" just in case we don't get Barkas.

Chrisantus and Baroja are gone. Arzo, Soiledis, Buononotte, and Cordero hopefully are next. I wouldn't be surprised if Vargas, and Djebour left too. Loria is close to being signed for the Goalkeeper spot, he's an upgrade over both Anestis and Baroja, but he's not good enough IMO for a team trying to qualify for the Europa league group stages. At this point if we are only going to sign average players that won't get us into Europe, we might as well sign young Greek players that are decent but have a lot more potential. My hope for this offseason if they weren't going to sign paixtarades was to sign: ?Barkas to split time with Anestis. ?Risvanis to backup Kolovetsios, and play about 15-20 games in all competitions. ?A good experienced centerback to teach Kolovetsios and Risvanis. ? Kourbelis and Siopis to backup our defensive midfielders. ? Stafylidis on loan with an option to buy to share the spot with Didac. ?Bakasetas who is signed already. ?Vellios to be our number one striker. ?A winger just as good as Barbosa. We would have built our team for the next decade, improved our team for the upcoming season, but it would have cost a ton to sign these guys. Signing a few of them will help, I'm still holding out hope for Vellios.

http://www.aek365.com/a-462271/o-timour-thelei-oi-paikte-tou-na-pethainoun-gia-thn-omada.htm Read this article here, sums it up pretty well

Given the way Ketsbaia likes to play, I think we've seen the last of Vargas, Buononotte, and Cordero. They don't fit his style of tough play. Also, looks like Baroja is gone. Barojas from Atromitos, and Loria that used to play for OFI are the two options we are trying to get to replace him. Barkas is a stud, he will be the best goalkeeper in Greece in a few years, we need to sign him ASAP. Ketsbaia also likes Vellios for striker position which would be great for us if we sign him. Carlos Carlao, a Brazilian CB from APOEL is on his list, as is Milan Duric, a 2 meter tall Bosnian striker that scored 8 goals for Cesena in Serie B this year.

We went from Montanier to Ketsbaia... Excuse me while I go throw up.... Cheap cheap cheap cheap cheap tigrako back at it again

The things he did for Real Socieadad were unbelievable, he lead them to the group stages of the champions league just once year after they were fightining relegation.

If they weren't going to play to win why didn't we just play the u21 kids...

To be fair, most of his goals were against B ethniki teams and some penalties. He disappears during games for long periods of time, he's a weak weak player physically and mentally. He has more skill than any player in the super league but he just can't cut it physically. Plus, he can only play behind the striker where Mantalos plays.

Although today's game is meaningless I will hopefully be watching and be hoping for a win. Finishing this season 4th, which we would with a loss, makes this season just a little less successful IMO. I also really hate Neos Panionios with a passion and part of me wants to try and score 6 goals... But, is it worth risking severe injury to a key player? I think it would be better for the starters get some "extra" rest before we start pre season training. A lot of fringe players and players from the u21 are in the apostoli, it gives us a chance to see if any of these kids have some real talent. I want to see a lineup of ---------------------------------Baroja Vasiloant------------Svarnas---Labropoulos---Soiledis -------------Tzanetopoulos-------Galanopoulos---------- Vlachomitros----------Buononotte---------------Platellas -------------------------------Kyriazis-------------------------- This would let us see what Kyriazis, Vlachomitros, Galanopoulos, and Svarnas have, they are the four best players in our youth team but we haven't promoted a kid from the academy since the year we got relegated. This is most likely Barojas last game with AEK. Buononotte, Labropoulos, and Soiledis are fighting to keep their spots on the roster for next year. Vasiloantonopoulos,Tzanetopoulos, and Platellas will probably remain with the squad next year. Maybe the first two will be sent on loan depending on what signings we make.

No comment about the penalty? No comment about Leovac not getting a yellow on 3 separate occasions? How about Glykos that should have seen a yellow for time wasting from the first half?