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^ oh yeah your love of him is inspirational Anyway, there have been a few non-updates re: Giakoumakis. Some sources say we will pay all his salary, some just a part. One earlier said we were going back to Cruz Azul to offer to pay more of his salary for a smaller buy-out next year. This one is a bit more middle-of-the-road. I think, though, if we can only make updates to our list up to 24 hours in advance, then we basically have less than a day to get this deal done and the player to Greece (a direct flight from Mexico City to Athens, if it even exists, would probably be 12-14 hours). https://inpaok.com/870863/romano-o-paok-esteile-episimi-protasi-gia-giakoumaki/ Are we able to update that list after the Wolfsberger games, I wonder? We also continue to be linked with some other Slavic forwards, maybe it's nonsense, maybe they're plan Bs (and Cs and Ds). https://inpaok.com/870850/paok-kai-panathinaikos-gia-stoulits/

The team sold 18,526 season tickets, as per their instagram post. Nice.

I sure hope they can't; would love to see a reckoning a la the big Turkish teams. My uncle mitso told me that we can't spend money because Savvidis is under sanctions and can't move the money to Cyprus. Nonsense. The team has bank accounts in Greece. I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt before, but now I think we're just clowning around.

So we couldn't have afforded him, but AEK had a more compelling case? Frigging AEK?

Just want to point out that the team they're building has a rather interesting mix of players and nationalities: https://www.transfermarkt.com/paok-thessaloniki-b/kader/verein/91869/plus/0/galerie/0?saison_id=2025 Karel Mustmaa's transfermarkt picture is...not the best hahaha

It's right that his time with the team is over, but man I ended up liking him so much more than I expected. I was pretty pissed off when we hired him. Good luck to him, hopefully he gets another trophy or two in Cyprus.

There's rumored to be a buy option, which makes what comes after more of a concern. But who knows, maybe by then we'll have Mythou and Chatzidis as our star duo in a tight 4-4-2

SDNA was referencing some "locker room trouble" at his current club as apparently he is massively overpaid, at 275k a month (which came to a head after they got their asses kicked by Seattle, 7-0). That works out to 3.3mm a year. Surely he doesn't expect that kind of salary here?

@PaokCT DIDN'T I CALL THIS LIKE TWO MONTHS AGO? https://inpaok.com/870525/o-paok-einai-konta-stin-apoktisi-giakoumaki/

Wondering if Thymianis will be cut this month. I don't think he even played in the friendlies? Eight greeks in list A, which could also be why.

Looks like a surprisingly generous contract for Konstantelias, and also - relevant to this thread - a new jersey number for the guy. https://www.metrosport.gr/o-konstantelias-pire-tin-fanela-me-to-no-65-1210139 https://www.metrosport.gr/konstantelias-oi-ayximenes-apolaves-to-prim-ypografis-ta-extra-mponoys-kai-to-xechoristo-5-1210189

Two new posts on inPAOK about my favorite topic, Kaftanzoglio https://inpaok.com/870491/synantisi-pae-paok-vroutsi-me-fonto-to-kaftantzogleio/ https://inpaok.com/870501/to-schedio-tou-paok-gia-tin-anavathmisi-tou-kaftanzogleiou/ I am suspicious that we won't end up having a shot at this stadium but we'll see I guess.

I don't get this - surely both the CFs we've called up to preseason (Mythos and Chatsidis) won't be getting minutes with the senior team? https://inpaok.com/870449/prochora-to-thema-tou-for-ston-paok-v/ Speaking of academies, here's a non-player signing that is kind of interesting: https://inpaok.com/870432/simantiki-enischysi-gia-tis-akadimies-tou-paok/ And lastly, more rumors that we want the Canuck. At this point, he's older than we should be gunning for, imo... https://www.transfermarkt.us/cyle-larin/profil/spieler/343463

Literally pathetic that we can't rely on other Greek teams to gain any coefficient points. And here I thought they had a new, exciting team!

I guess some eye-talians are saying we might be interestd in Facundo Gonzalez, who is owned by Juventus but played for Feyenoord last season (but "played" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, as he appears to have played only six times in their league). https://www.transfermarkt.us/facundo-gonzalez/profil/spieler/825199 Good age, at least? Meanwhile, Akpom is tenuously linked with the Turks. I would SO rather have him than the scrubs we've been linked to... https://www.metrosport.gr/toyrkos-dimosiografos-i-sampsoynspor-tsekarei-tsoympa-akpom-1209153 Perhaps if this drama continues for another three weeks, we will get him for cheap(er). A boy can dream.

Despodov injured yet again, this time in his tushy. Seems he'll be back for the regular season but this probably means he won't be in any of our qualifiers (def missing this first round). https://inpaok.com/870245/chanei-volfsbergker-o-ntespontof/

He lost all of last season (apart from his first game) where he tore a meniscus. Judging by transfermarkt he was on the bench towards the end of the season so presumably he's in shape. But who knows what this means for his effectiveness. Why would he be a free agent, though? Is he getting released from his contract? Anyway, in other news, the Cheddira move has gone from no, to yes, back to no. I don't know why we would want this guy - his statistics are terrible. Why waste our time and money with another Samatta? https://inpaok.com/870250/chalase-i-metagrafi-tou-sentira/

I'm likin' Tsopouroglou 👀 -edit- I love how the commentator is OBSESSED with how many Japanese there are on that team, and how he doesn't bother calling them by name.

Our third goal - nice play by Ivanusic, both to attack and to recover the deflection.

Buddy I'll be at your actual goodbye, as I smother you in your hospital bed with a pillow

The Germans can't point to a signed agreement with the actual player, so I'm not sure what they think can happen here. Until the moment he signs, the deal is not over... I love that we are about to have a very slightly younger Samatta on our roster. What a blessing this team's transfer policy has been. -edit- it looks like we just signed a PAO K17 player, Savvas Vamvakidis. I'm not sure if he was under contract or not (or if you can even hold a player that young to a contract) - but metrosport is saying he's heading to our K19 team. https://www.transfermarkt.com/savvas-vamvakidis/profil/spieler/1386214 Maybe they released him for shaving his eyebrow?

The list of teams he played for is wild. He literally went everywhere hahaha I'm kind of surprised he included us in the good-bye post

So what do we think, boys and girls?

I hope you're right. I think at some point someone will pay that for him, I just don't know that we'll be the lucky ones to demand that price

We've signed one of the kids the B team was trying out, assuming you can still call a 19-year-old a kid (I am old, so will). https://inpaok.com/869534/nea-prosthiki-sto-roster-tou-paok-v/ https://www.transfermarkt.com/abasiekeme-ikobong/profil/spieler/1429908 Good luck to him.