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Seeing how lame their announcement video was makes me so #grateful we have PAOK

Apparently we're going to try to renew Mauricio. Seems risky to me. Koulouris has apparently signed; just hasn't been announced yet.

They spanked us back in the day. Hopefully we get at least some tiny amount of redemption here

Him as a free would definitely be good for us. And he'd slot in without a problem

This is likely not credible but apparently some Romanian sites are saying we're thinking twice about Tosca. I didn't mind the player but I think he'd be foolish to come to us (if it were true) - he wouod get very little playing time.

Lamprou gets the #11.

So NFC Volos has four of our guys and counting? Hopefully they'll kick ass there. I doubt Caseres is an option - we don't have room for him, even with Kacheridi leaving. Unless Henrique is sold.

InPAOK is talking about this guy. I don't see the point of this move...unless it's with the intention of a loan? https://www.transfermarkt.com/enea-mihaj/profil/spieler/448920

WHAT?? Is that how the internet works???????

They certainly are. A good example: I saw several pages post today about Nemanja Gudelj. INSISTING that he was on his way to Thessaloniki. A quick twitter search shows that Fenerbahce was the only team with buzz regarding his name. An hour later, those posts were mysteriously missing on those same pages. Lulz

Would it make a difference if they came in on June 10th vs June 25th?

Standard Liege pretending to pull back from their interest for El Kaddouri because they don't want to spend the extra 200k. This deal will close sooner or later. InPAOK saying Toulouse is going to buy Koulouris after all. For 3.5mm. That's a disappointingly low price, if true. -edit- reading elsewhere that the sale for Koulouris includes a resale rate. That makes me feel a lot better. -edit again- El Kaddouri deal is reportedly done, he'll be signing a three-year contract for 900k/year. PAOK will get a million in compensation. Great to be done with this mess.

Lots of buzz this morning about Lewis Holtby: https://www.transfermarkt.com/lewis-holtby/profil/spieler/55508 One instagram page says that this is old news (we made contact like a month ago and it's only now hitting the sites), and that he's not coming here. I'm inclined to believe that as well, but since "real" websites are also starting to post about him, I thought I'd add it: https://inpaok.com/572803/aftos-ine-o-cholntbi-videos/

That is a tough draw for Astana. Cluj should beat them. Would love another crack at BATE but if the Poles can beat them, I say more power to them.

I think there are a few things: Playing well at Atromitos - who desperately needed a good striker and were guaranteed to give him a lot of chances - does not necessarily translate into playing well at PAOK We have two good strikers already, who both play in a manner that is more suited to Lucescu's style We had a chance to sell Klaus a few years back and decided to keep him, out of...I guess nostalgia? That was a huge mistake We have only so much money to play with (even with Savvidis injecting funds into the club), and so a 5-7mm sale would go a long way towards rebuilding our midfield

There has actually been a lot of buzz these past two days about Branco not giving up on Oliveira because now our agreement has expired and we don't have the 12mm hanging over the negotiation. For him to work out, though, one thing needs to happen: Porto needs to buy multiple midfielders who are at least as good as him. I don't think Porto is more likely to budge now that the deal is past. For Silva, the personal terms issue makes sense. The sites kept saying he was put on the back burner due to our "having much better players to choose from" who we will "be announcing shortly." That was like three weeks ago. Considering we need to replace both Shakhov and Canas, that should not have stopped us from signing Silva to at least be backup.

Hmmm... familiar face there in the middle row... https://inpaok.com/572345/ki-apo-ellada-estine-mats-o-raoul-bravo/

Watch Atromitos turn him into a world beater. At least we'll have potential for some cash if that happens. Did they pay anything for him in addition to the resale?

Which does not mean they'll stick around; but at least this time we should have enough fullbacks that Balogiannis won't be playing in the wrong position. Charisis is under contract for one more season as well, though I am aware that Lucescu isn't gonna keep him around.

Okay that's kind of weird. Why do Apollon Smyrnis want/need that tax ID number? This all seems a very convoluted and expensive way to make money; unless he spent zero euros on players, it would take years and many many games before you make your way up to the top level....unless that part is just icing on the cake.

Can someone remind me what the deal is with this new Volos team? There aren't THREE of them now right? The highlights reel BT was mentioning:

Misic is a loan to us so unless we cancel it I think he'll be around. He does play similarly to Shakhov so who knows, he might surprise us. I think Ismael Silva is still slated to come our way, and as Blackhawk says in the other thread, Canas might end up at Red Star. The winger rumor is that he will be a big signing but I won't hold my breath.

You've gotta remember though, our home grown players are all garbage and can't get better. We bought this guy from Volos: https://www.transfermarkt.gr/nikolaos-bourganis/profil/spieler/590129 (actually, transfermarkt says his contract is up this month so he'd be a free agent). Probably will be loaned out...even if Melissas goes back to Lamia (like they want), I don't know why we'd have this guy as our third option when we have Papadopoulos around.

He looked very good in preseason last year, from what I recall it was a near thing. If we make it to the group stage, we should have enough games this season where we get a look at everyone, at least...

Fingers crossed! https://inpaok.com/571645/erchete-noritera-o-vernbloum/