Bananas

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.

I saw highlights. It was one way traffic for Aris and you gave them a beat down. Very good win. It has taken a little time but maybe the new coach isn't so bad, but I still think the firing of the ispano was outrageous. Let us see how the team does for the rest of the season and hopefully they strengthen and improve (except against PAOK of course when you should always lose 4-0 ha ha).

Don't worry @PAOTHEGREAT soon ND will govern in Greece and the economy will be fixed. People will be able to spend lots of money on important things like football and bouzoukia (every 20 year old I ask that visits Greece swears the economy is fine) instead of worrying about food and how they will heat their home.

Good win. Seemed like a bit of a training session i.e. lacking intensity. Some good saves by Paschalakis. Henrique at the end, ha ha.

What the hell is going on with the injury to Canas ? Just curious.

It is the way of the modern football world unfortunately. How else can you go up against someone like Olympiacos and Marinakis ? Even this took Savvidis a while to work out. The first 3-4 years he still spent half or less compared to Olympiacos. It's only last year and this year that Savvidis has matched their budget, which doesn't entitle us to anything really, but you can see the results in the league. By that I mean the overall consistency. P.S. You guys played a good game.

That’s the thing, there is no “winning” with a Greek referee. If he favours us it’s because of Savvidis, Tsipras, if not Marinakis, Melissanidis etc etc. It’s better this way and at least we can all not worry about corruption (or at least it’s much less likely). One day in about 2000 years maybe we can have our own referees again. Not anytime soon I imagine.

Can you imagine what would've happened if it was a Greek referee ? Mafia Marinakis would've been blamed for everything. Fans rioting etc. No thanks. I'd rather have a foreign referee even if he is twice as bad as the Greek referee. Because at least that way when a mistake happens, people can just shrug their shoulders and say "it was a mistake" and get over it.

Not in the mood right now. It’s interesting though looking at posts like these as a snapshot of where we were at.

Re jvc, I get what you’re saying but you speak as if PAOK is to blame or something. All PAOK (and every other club) can do is to try and be a little better each season compared to the one before. You speak as if we are not allowed to rejoice at the idea of potentially winning a title for the first time since 1985. Should we be miserable instead ? You speak of lack of investment but Savvidis has poured in vast amounts of money into the club. More than any PAOK fan could have ever guessed in a million years. If you really cared about Greek football, you would become a PAOK supporter, the one club that is really trying and investing (and also change your username to insert a ‘K’ as the 4th letter). As for CL and our teams being competitive, that I keep telling you (but you are a xerokefalo with the attention span of a goldfish) is from a bygone era. The world has changed. Benfica were once a powerhouse, Nottingham Forest, Ajax, etc etc etc. Your beloved CL changed all that. All the money goes to the 10 or so biggest clubs and the rest are just little fish making up the numbers. This is the reality.

Rodrigues started slowly at Galatasaray but by the time he left he was doing very well. I’ll always have a soft spot for him for that goal he scored against Fiorentina and for that game against Panathinaikos in Toumba where he single handedly dismantled their defence in the first 30 minutes of the game.

No dribble, no control no vision ... just goals. Lots and lots of them. I’ll miss the big lug, but yeah I get what you’re saying. I’d still have him in the team. Lucescu just didn’t want to mess with a formula that working and really who can blame him.

He he he :)

I think our friend @PAOTHEGREAT has forgotten to take his pills. Some serious mood swings there. Even some gnashing of teeth. Maybe one day when (if ?) his club is great again, we will swell with pride and support them as they smash opponents into the CL, because apparently we used to. I can't remember doing that, but then again my memory isn't what it used to be.

@PAOTHEGREAT you see no difference because you haven’t been paying attention. More teams are wanting foreign referees just to know that games aren’t corrupt. Sad but true. The foreign refs can make mistakes, but at least we know it’s a mistake and he wasn’t bought. As for your saviour Mitsotakis, yeah, bring on the messiah. I’ll know the league is swinging Athens way if foreign referees are not the norm next year.

Terrible signing. I thought he’d be better than Varela given the hype. Pack your bags and gtfo.