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Portugal just scored another, so this is definitely the end of the line

This is almost as fun as that Germany-Italy one that's going on. Lots of interesting shellackings going on today

Okay my children, fear not, I am here to provide more of my wisdom. Kudos to Jovanovic for making such a rotation. I am very much over the "old guard." Use them as super subs, but cut this nonsense of playing guys who are well past their prime. The average age of the starting 11 was under 23, and we still absolutely bossed around Scotland on their home turf. Complete no brainer where we should go from here. Konstantelias obviously the man of the match. What a player. I can't wait until PAOK sells him and then spends all that money on a dozen 35-year-old Ghanaian left-backs. Karetsas fit in immediately. It very much helps that he stylistically works so well with our other young players. The Tzolis-Konstantelias-Kartetsas line is such a blindingly obvious play going forward. Imagine how good they'll look if they can cut down those errant passes by another 10%. That's another goal a game right there! Giannoulis is a friggin stud and deserves game time. He's better offensively than Tsimikas so I can definitely see why Jovanovic would have started him here, where we're chasing two goals. This move paid dividends. Pavlidis and Ioannidis are both fine, but not as productive as we need our strikers. I'd still give the nod to Pavlidis going forward as he is playing at a higher level and scoring more goals. Simple math there. Tzimas will take his job soon anyway. I will disagree that this was a hugely meaningful game (sorry @J1078). I think this was considered a sort of... "what else do we have to lose?" kind of thing. We get to see how the youngsters look vs Scotland, who we will be competing against in just a few months...and of course he gets the chance to get our youngest, newest additions more minutes with each other. That last bit is probably hugely valuable to the team. Also, if we ended up staying in league B, we'd just have more matches to drive up our coefficient with - I'm not sure if that's better or worse than having our guys get tested against this higher quality of competition, in the lead-up to the next Euro (it's also such a shame that we won't get these games before next summer's world cup). The new midfield was maybe the best move by Jovanovic. I very much disliked the last lineup - Mantalos and Siopis are so obviously cooked. Especially considering how Scotland's main strength is that midfield; they were chewed right up. What do we have to lose by playing an ascendent Zafeiris and Mouzakitis? Clearly, it worked out even better. I can definitely see those two holding on to that spot going forward. Hopefully Bakasetas' manager doesn't have so much sway that our diving professor forces his way back into the starting lineup going forward. His weirdly piercing eyes belong on the bench. Ps you're welcome from a paoktsis -edit- edited for spelling

His grandfather is from Valtero, which is spitting distance from where both sides of my family live. Real trash town, guy's descendants are all automatically guaranteed citizenship into perpetuity just based on that handicap. A gypsy in the Irakleia bazaar (down the street) once saw I was wearing pumas and told me they could get me "hundreds" of authentic ones if I met them back in Valtero to properly haggle. I'm sure my spleen would have been stolen. 10/10 would recommend.

I woke up to a bunch of texts from a Juventus-fan friend of mine, telling me Igor Tudor is now their coach. Must be his dream job considering his connection to them. Congrats I guess...

Someone tell our administration that we could KEEP getting new players in the national team, if they just develop and play them! They might have forgotten 🤷‍♂️

Feels like more announcements than in most years, right? Anyway, three more contract extensions announced today, I think all through 2028: U17 striker: https://www.transfermarkt.com/nikolaos-chaldezos/profil/spieler/1326863 U19 GK: GK (not sure which team he's in, prob U17): https://www.paokfc.gr/en/profiles/eleftherios-manasidis/

Man, remember when he came out and scored like two goals in one game and then we never saw him again? Ahhh what could have been

And is also one of the kids who got the new contract!

Thanks babe, this is the most useful I've ever found you to be!

Here's the first signing. I don't....understand how he can sign before the season is over? Is there some exception made for a contract that begins with the end of the current season? Also, I didn't think we could negotiate with players outside of a transfer window. https://inpaok.com/857546/episimo-ston-paok-o-gkougkesasvili/

This might be the first time I've heard one of our fan sites actually start to care about the fundamental problems. The question is, will Lucescu play ball? If he quits over a change of direction, better it happen immediately after the season ends. https://inpaok.com/857434/i-ora-ton-apofaseon-gia-ton-ivan-savvidi/ I still think we might grab third spot, because Panathinaikos looks just as bad as we do. But it would require a Herculean effort to move up to second place.

A few more youths got new contracts, this time for our U17 squad. https://www.transfermarkt.com/evagjelos-gjoka/profil/spieler/1163035 https://www.transfermarkt.com/konstantinos-souvlatzis/profil/spieler/1329906 https://www.transfermarkt.com/georgios-krommydas/profil/spieler/1104554

Currently 0-1 in our favor in the 86th minute, our future phenom Kottas scored in the fourth minute. Just need to see those last few minutes through now. Welcome to the senior team our sweet baby boy! -edit- Hurtado missed a PK around 75 minutes in. Boo hiss!

I swear to GOD, a 50% pay cut still won't make him worth signing. Just imagine we used some of that 29 million we earned last summer on a complimentary 25 year old that can play up front with Chalov. 4-4-1-1 - style. -edit- not sure why that link didn't stay saved https://inpaok.com/857059/o-samata-thelei-alla-o-paok-den-viazetai/

They don't exactly have a history of massive buys, and they have multiple good goalies that are under contract through at least 2026...unless one of them is about to be sold, I find this questionable. One of those goalies is hurt through the end of the season, but I don't think that implies he won't be ready for preseason.

Hah I was just going to complain that our friend PaokCT broke this news but apparently the twitter embedding broke even going back last month. Disappointing. Musk hates the open internet!

Whoever that was, should get whipped!

WELL THIS ISN'T GOING WELL! -edit- their second goal is disallowed due to a foul on Taison, thank god

Despogoal at 1:23

So much for that! Silly me. But we do now see Meite/Camara starting, for the first time. I still think we'll score five. https://x.com/PAOK_FC/status/1898765932522098707 -edit- the embedding of the tweet doesn't seem to be working so leaving it as a link

Oh no, so our better striker might be forced to play how sad 😞 😞 😞 😞 😞

I don't understand the breathless following of Zivkovic's injury in light of this game. Athens Kallithea is a terrible team. Put our B team on and we'll still win by three.

How could it have been him if he was TOO BUSY PARTYING

WAS IT SAMATTA?!!?! Give him a new contract immediately! But yeah I'm guessing it's Baba or Michailidis in those half-field "scrimmages." Would line up with who would be most likely to defend against him.