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Two million seems cheap for his productivity last year...

I don't think it's the first player they've refused to let in recently. Pretty dumb move hiring a pariah in the middle of a war either way.

The tea sippers are holding up the visa for Ozdoyev. Wouldn't be surprised if he is not allowed to enter the country for the first leg. Thumb on the scale, and all.

Tsiggaras also trained normally today, so may be available. I would bet the coach will rest both of them (or use as late subs) so as not to risk anything...but who knows!

On the plus side - the TV earnings will be split by those teams if they make it in, so that trims of the advantage. Just got to focus on ourselves now, and hope the meager funds we may pocket help. Let the foustanellas envelop the kilts, in other words.

This is the best present you've ever given me!

Keep Ozdoev on IMO - he's not gonna get in rhythm with the team if he doesn't get minutes, after all

Taison having such mixed feelings over that third goal hahaha

And Taison giving a card for...pretending? Lucescu too lmao

Penalty for us now, woooooot

lolz

Zivkovic limping, looks like Konstantelias is about to come on for him. Hopefully not serious. I'd imagine Murg gets shifted to the wing now.

Guess they've given up on getting rid of Murg, huh?

Thank God it's not the ACL that was guessed earlier. Sucks that he'll be out but muscle injuries at least can heal...

Since when are our defenders slow? Anyway, couple of articles to share: Karipidis speaks (gasp): https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/exclusive-paok-director-christos-karipidis-speaks-on-hearts-fans-safety-salonika-heat-and-tynecastle-memories-4260217 A kind of pointless article: https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c2qlppyr77do

There was a rumor posted on one of the sites earlier that the team has agreed terms with Marcos Antonio and is working on a one-season loan with a buy-out (though I'm not sure if it's mandatory or optional). No idea what the amount could be, though. Lazio paid 7.5mm to Shakhtar for him, with a possible 2mm bonus (which they surely won't have to pay now considering he only played the equivalent of a dozen games last season). Hopefully they are considering him a loss and will just give him away for free...right?

100% us, all day and all night. Though I did catch the last three minutes of yesterday's game and the limey was waxing poetic about how passionate their friends were. Good lord they'll be eaten alive...

Still waiting for proof?

Soares might only be a muscle injury (at least, that was the guess on some random site's post). I would bet you his role as third-string AM will be filled by Ricardo. We definitely need that other CM though, be it the Brazilian kid or Maksimovic. I bet the team won't pull the trigger until after the Hearts game though.

I sadly unsubscribed to his youtube channel last week because I realized he updated it for like two days and then gave it the boot. Sad. He must be living a better life than those of us who are always online, though.

That's actually my point - the club (like almost all clubs) is privately owned. They don't produce anything for the general public to peruse, as far as I have seen. We have no idea how much money they make, where it comes from, what they spend (both on players and other drivers of cost), AND we have no idea if Savvidis takes money out. It's insane that this is getting any traction at all - which is kind of why it's clear at least some "fans" here are bad actors.

Sadly I don't think we'll ever, ever, ever get 20mm for a player...

No chance Lucescu gets cute with the formations. Perhaps he calls up a midfielder from the B team for depth, but I am sure we'll see Ozdoev there with Schwab (and considering our little Russkie played today, we'll be seeing a lot of yellows). Terrible luck if Tsiggaras is that hurt. Hopefully Rafa Soares' confidence hasn't been shattered, as well. We SHOULD be able to beat Hearts (god I love repeating myself), but as usual our biggest enemy will be ourselves. So, uh, anyone know what the best way to get tickets to an away game is?

Yeah I don't know who I'd want to play more. But I guess there's no point in hypothesizing anymore - Hearts are through

Pretty pleased with how this went. Like I said last week - if Hajduk were going to slap us around, it would have been in their home game. I think the stats here were misleading; half of Hajduk's shots were lobs straight at Kotarski. I don't think they were as much of a danger we feared. Very happy to see my two fav players score. Austria is known for their impressive leaders, right? *cough* In the other game - Aris is taking penalties vs the Ukranians. Second half of Rosenborg and Hearts about to begin as well.