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I was thinking the same. We don't have a list of players yet right? Just looking at the current senior team on Transfermarkt, I would assume all these guys would end up in the B team: GK: Talichmanidis and/or Balomenos (assuming Bourganis is not shipped out) Defenders: Tsaousis, Kaloutsikidis (though your guess is as good as mine as to what will happen with Lyratzis) - neither of these guys are CBs Midfielders: Giaxis, Meletidis, Tzimas, Chatzistavros, Korelas, Ouedraogo - no CMs here, could we see Tsiggaras drop? Strikers: Bradonjic, Fasidis, Gaitanidis, Panidis, Gordeziani Fourteen of the above are currently on the senior team roster, which sits at 47 players. Subtract those plus Warda, and we're down to 32, so presumably 4 more cuts remain for Lucescu. That's before accounting for any additional signings he wants to make. Yeesh.

The Dutch are well known for their fear of the rain, after all

Wow Koutsias with a solid poached goal. Kid is PUMPED

...are they singing Sweet Caroline??

So if they don't, he goes back to Brugge and we buy him next year after we sell Swiderski. Mark it!

I thought B teams could win their league and compete in the cup normally, but just could not be promoted? Though I don't think I've heard anything specifically about how Greece is going to do it. Would be great to see Garcia win the cup with a group of 21-year-olds though!

So exciting! Looking forward to posting clips of Garcia being grumpy all season long.

It's official: Pablo Garcia takes the job. Perhaps it would be more efficient to create a thread specifically for the B team now, a la the youth teams thread? https://www.paokfc.gr/nea/20210723-to-texniko-epiteleio-tou-paok-b/

At least AEK managed to salvage an away goal. Not at all surprising Aris lost. Perhaps they wanted to save their energy for when they play us.

Your two favorite players will be cut any minute now!

Schwab is our most consistent player. Have some respect.

I fully agree. Since Lucescu is also allergic to young people, if people like him and Kagawa become the core of the team and then rapidly decline, where will we be left?

I don't recall his name but I could believe that being the case. Lately a lot of buzz about Giovinco. As in, this fun character. Apparently Lucescu was asked about it after the game (and he declined to comment).

OFI is showing their own version of preseason live streams at this very moment:

If Kagawa ever gets hurt, should we call him "Kaga-wahhhhh" I'll see myself out

Oliveira with another one. MAKE US PROUD NELSON

Nice goal by Oliveira. Or rather, nice set up

Haha whoops! I'm all mixed up

Four 30-minute halves for tomorrow's game. Put me in coach! I'm ready!

Another day, another rumor. This is presumably our "anti-Baba." Contract is up in a year, so he probably won't be overly expensive. Good age too. https://www.transfermarkt.com/rafa-soares/profil/spieler/198006

Vieirinha sporting a fancy new mask today. Might have a bone bruise from that last friendly. Hopefully no worse than that.

Tied for best option imo. Hope the team doesn't take it for granted

And already in the Netherlands, it seems. Out of curiosity, does anyone know how the logistics of players moving works out? Like, does the team have someone (or contract someone) to help the player find an actual home, show them around, etc? Or do they need to act like us mere mortals and figure it out themselves? I'm sure there are no shortage of English-speaking people who can help find apartments and so on, for example.

No way we're getting another striker. It would make no sense.

I think he's banked a grand total of like 40 minutes of playing time in real games (obviously from last season, when he came back from that...loan? pseudo loan? to Napoli). He makes a lot of mistakes and is kind of a lightweight in my opinion. Probably B team caliber for now, and hopefully he puts on some muscle over the next year. Nothing amazing at the moment (and I think the team was more keen on Konstantelias last year anyway). If we get another AM, I would imagine both would be shipped out (unless Biseswar gets cut after he returns looking like he's four months pregnant).