Bananas

If Staf doesn’t want to come back now, then he can eat a big one as far as I’m concerned. Petty much ?

@pash has the club found a spare 15 or 20 million buried in the back yard ? The signings we made in the summer were from the sale of Prijovic.

Terrible news about Vieirinha. Out for at least 6 months. He is literally irreplaceable. I don’t think there is any player on the planet with his skill set that we could sign. Stafylidis seems the logical choice and he’ll be solid, but I know who I’d rather be playing with on the flank if I’m playing LW. And I know who I’d not prefer to have playing if I’m the opposition. Now is the time for Staf to man up and return when we need him.

Damn shame about Henrique. I would’ve loved to have him in the squad for the cup final. He’s exactly the sort of player that can turn it on in games like these.

I don’t get why we even have buyout clauses. It can only restrict you. I mean, yeah for some players they might insist on it (e.g. Prijovic) and you don’t really have a say so the player/agent get what they want. But Lambrou ain’t exactly in a bargaining position. Regarding Bouzoukis, is the kid really that good ? I mean sure he might be a great talent, but would he get actual game time in our squad ? I don’t see him walking into the 11 so basically he’s a bench player. 3 million for a bench player ... I think I’d rather spend that on an Akpom or Jaba.

Cimirot was a really solid player for us. Good on him.

The result is big. Fair to say we should be happy with a score draw. As for the goals we conceded, the players committed sins today. Those goals should NEVER go in at that level. 1) The first goal, why isn't there one man around the "D" ? Seriously, my junior coaches taught us these basics when I was a kid. If you allow the opposition to just shoot like that, you deserve to concede. I've read comments the goal was lucky but I don't agree. We allowed the corner taker to see the option, he played it, and the BH player had a shot. After that, anything can happen, and behold it did. Worse than a school boy error on our part. If you simply position a man to guard the "D" this goal doesn't happen. 2) The free kick from Pjanic. Same again. School boy defending. Sure, he's not that good. I mean, he only plays for Juventus and is being courted by Real Madrid. Here mate, we don't need to setup a wall because you're just a no name player that couldn't score to save your life. And for the people that said it's Vlachodimos mistake, that is ridiculous. That shot would not be saved by any keeper in the world. It was perfect. But if you setup a wall, it's 95% no goal. So we concede two goals from defending that is Kastoria FC level. Unacceptable. Moving forward hopefully we tighten up because we will definitely not qualify conceding stupid goals like this. The plus (and this is a BIG plus) is that the team didn't fold and showed heart. That is all on Ange. His team selection I don't understand but his motivational skills have always been good. Overall, considering the first 20 minutes and at half-time we 2-0 down this is a great result.

In other phantis news, AEK has been relegated.

Yiankos Greatest Hits featuring ukworm.

I think we’ll have to do an end of year summary instead. I miss Campos.

How on earth did we buy players ? Wasn’t it with Savvidis money ?

Thanks for clarifying the criteria @Lazarus. That makes a bit more sense. At least a potential candidate isn’t thrown away just because of their lack of donors. End of the day money unfortunately plays a massive role. It is what it is. The amounts are mind boggling. Regardless, I’m sure whoever the candidate ends up being, money I would imagine, won’t be a problem. The important thing I believe, is for the Democrats to select a candidate who (a) doesn’t have baggage (I’m thinking Hillary here) and (b) is sincere. By sincere I mean someone like Obama. Not an exact like for like but in a similar vein. Obama didn’t have that image of being “establishment” and I feel he really did want to do a good job in the face of many obstacles. Hillary/Trump strike me as wanting the position for the sake of it. These are just my perceptions though and I’m not heavily into U.S. politics or policies. But (and this is important) whoever the candidate is, they need to bypass/ignore Trump as much as possible, by concentrating on policy. No one can win against Trump by trying to criticise him. The man is beyond criticism. Policy, policy, policy, policy, policy. It’s what thinking people are interested in. Those that aren’t, well there is no convincing them anyway.

Anyone with (a) a pulse and (b) sincerity should be able to win comfortably. Just don’t try and persuade Trump voters as that really is not possible.

Why are 65,000 donors even required ? “Capitalism” alive and well. I will program this into an AI program. if num_donors >= 65000 this.candidate = worthy else this.candidate = rejected

The more interesting question is what shall we call the thread ? I open with “Days of our lives”.

So we are the 5th best team in Greece ?

No I don’t remember. Could be I’m suffering from PTSD from all those bad signings and they’ve been erased my memory. For some reason the word “necid” keeps appearing in my mind.

Is there any clarity on what the “real” price is for Oliviera ? At 6 million he’s a buy but at 12 it’s getting kind of crazy.

As long as the final has foreign referees I am not concerned about the game itself. As for our fans, yeah, that is always a worry.

This site has been around for a long time. At least 10 or so years that I know of. I am very impressed by whoever runs it. He does a better job than UEFA.

I’ll be happy if we can get another season Fromm Jaba, that is we sell at the end of season 19/20. But, I don’t even think we’ll be blue to hang on to him that long. Kudos to whoever scouted this kid.

Lamia in the final it is then.

Add to that Koulouris and now Lambrou will potentially be back next season and Karelis has virtually no chance of being bought by us after this loan expires

Thanks man.

Karelis ? Ok, I’m just kidding.