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Sounds like Giannoulis will be the first sub. Perhaps El Kaddouri and Vierinha will end up our wingers...I think Jaba has been worse than Henrique.

Fire him

Ahhh Swidersky you gotta get those in!

Goal Oliveira!

Badass lineup:

Wholesome

Oliveira may end up part of a swap.... For Quaresma ?

Ahh, the legendary hospitality of the Dutch!

How does that even work? Like, did he not know tickets were sold? Or is this is just an attempt to put a stamp of his authority ("I hereby decree...") on something? Also - I'm not gonna complain too much about the number of tickets we got, but it seems bizarre that we were allowed over half their capacity...

If I go to watch some friendlies, will you buy me stroopwaffles???

Newest word is Varela is going to get about 1mm/year + bonuses for a three year contract. Saw on instagram a rumor that Shakhov's deal would be worked on next, which kind of surprises me. We'll know soon enough...

As you have said....we shouldn't be doing business with Panathinaikos. They want to take our players on for an IOU, then sell their terrible squad back to us at 6x their market value? Get outta here with that BS

I couldn't resist starting the thread. Opening up with Giannis Bouzoukis. I thought the rumors were complete BS, but now Georgie is wishing him a happy birthday on Instagram...https://inpaok.com/548839/efchithike-se-bouzouki-o-savvidis-pic/ I honestly know very little about him. Transfermarkt values him at 800k: https://www.transfermarkt.com/giannis-bouzoukis/profil/spieler/355761 Personally, I think we're selling Pelkas this summer...if we do, then Bouzoukis might be a considered a replacement (though it's not really in the team's character lately to sign someone as a prospect with only one starter-level guy ahead of him). I believe Meliopoulos hasn't been announced yet? I wonder if he'll be loaned out immediately (possibly back to Xanthi?).

I don't believe so!

What a great player. Wish we still had him sometimes. Good on him!

Sounds like both Pelkas and El Kaddouri are likely for this game now. Very good news.

On second thought...maybe Allah will heal him faster... ?

To be fair, I'd do it if I were injured as well.

Isn't he injured?

Henrique trained normally today. Plenty of wingers now available for this match.

Wernbloom apparently ran for the first time since his injury today. Very good news. I bet we'll see him in the qualifiers. Will be great to see how well he partners with Oliveira (who I am feeling pretty confident will be with us this summer)

Limnios is doubtful for this match, as the team estimates his recovery time from his U21 injury is about a week. I think Henrique is also still training individually.

Limnios scored in the U21's 4-3 loss vs Slovakia

I must disagree, but I will still give you a smooch if we ever meet just because I don't want us to end with bad feelings Dunfy, I must sadly provide a counterpoint re: Klaus - while his last season was maybe his worst total (or full) season, he'd spent the last several years never having a consistently good season from what I recall. He either is on fire at the beginning or the end. I think what is interesting is that we fell into some idea of there being an ineffable quality to a player's performance; that the gods of sport decide if a guy is good or bad one week or another. In actuality, professionals should be able to consistently perform at a high level, regardless of if they're sad. Something tells me that players like Akpom won't suffer from that - they will put in the hard work to succeed. Prijovic did the same - one does not stay on a "hot streak" for two years. His results were manufactured, as it should be.

I legit think Pelkas is our best player. Absolutely absurd talent levels. Just needs to get his s%$#! together. Personally, though, I'd still include him as part of a package deal for Oliveira, assuming Porto was interested. He needs a different environment, in my opinion.