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For country coefficient points, gotta be most valuable to get the Austrians followed by the Czechs right?

Weren't the Tanzanians also claiming some team in the premier league wanted Samatta? Guy will be lucky if he rides the bench at Paphos.

Really a super poor return on Tsiggaras, if this 350k ends up being the case. Basically 140k for us: https://www.metrosport.gr/tosa-dinei-i-pogkon-ston-atromito-gia-ton-tsiggara-to-ofelos-toy-paok-1182271 Granted, Pogon isn't exactly swimming in money. I think there were rumors that Garcia was leaving Atromitos too, so maybe he wants to get out as well.

Lucescu's willingness to torpedo his entire season because he doesn't get a few average-quality players he has a crush on will be studied for decades.

And that's game. Well done by the boys. Very impressive pressing play by them, and much better ball control than I expected to see. Big props to our keeper for some huge saves as well.

Goal! About two minutes of stoppage time remaining Our goalscorer managed to hurt himself in his celebrations

Penalty against Max's son 😞 -edit- now VAR is calling the ref back to check for a possible earlier infraction by an Oly player -edit- no penalty! -edit- PENALTY for us in the last possible minute (120) - let's see how this goes

93rd minute and still 0-0. Olympiakos with a corner kick. Let's see if this makes its way to penalties

I was wondering the other day if Mythou would get a call-up. I don't know that this is "confirmation" of that, but perhaps he'll get a chance to show his stuff. Only a handful of games for the B team last year (six, actually) with no goals - but 15 goals in 20 games for the K19s. https://www.sdna.gr/podosfairo/1314719_mythoy-o-beniamin-toy-paok-kai-gemato-prokliseis-kalokairi I wonder what other players will get a shot in the preseason training camp. I will note Tsaousis's contract is about to be up, which I think makes it inevitable that he will be a free agent. I'll note we also have Deligiannis (not many games) and Sinanaj (many games) also in the B squad, as possible left backs.

Yeah. These are the same sources that reported a week ago that this same meeting was very good and they came to an agreement on what next steps were, and Lucescu provided his asks for new players. This is quite the about-face, if true. Like if you "knew" that had happened, why would you now claim something completely different happened? Ohhh yeah the clicks. Forgot about those.

And now today plenty of articles saying Lucescu had a fiery disagreement with Savvidis in their meeting. Guess we will have a full summer of "will-they, won't-they" coming up. Taison and Schwab's futures rely on this outcome!

If we lose either round in the EL qualifiers, we will also take the seeding of the team that beats us. That could hurt (though it seems there is a chance some decent teams could potentially be drawn against us in the EL). No reason to assume we can't make it, though.

Isn't their season long done? Feels weird that they'd be still having training sessions, even if it is to "test" others. https://inpaok.com/863917/polles-oi-dokimes-ston-paok-v/ Some of these guys will be joining the senior team for preseason so hopefully there won't be any weird injuries that spring up from this.

With numbers like those I think we're gonna have to put Tzolis on watch 😳

Congrats to your boys! What positions do they play?

Well there we have it. As expected, Europa League qualifiers!

There go my fantasies of getting our little boy back: https://inpaok.com/863791/sto-stochastro-tis-benfika-o-giannoulis-pic/

Most sites seem to still be saying Lucescu will stay, but it seems there was a link building with Albert Riera, who coaches in Slovenia. I don't know much about the guy apart from generally remembering that he played for Liverpool, but I'm guessing the genesis of these links is that he was with Olympiakos for a while (and so presumably knows Greece). https://www.sdna.gr/podosfairo/1312922_ti-anaferoyn-sti-slobenia-o-paok-i-tselie-kai-tilefonima-gia-ton-riera

Every goddamn year we hear about them wanting to enlarge this dumb league. Let me guess, we'll still have a playoff, but it'll last until end of May? The rationale re: the issue with their transfers is absolutely absurd - aren't these also the same teams that don't have the money to buy expensive players, and should be relying on domestic talent? https://inpaok.com/863701/super-league-sto-trapezi-i-afxisi-ton-omadon/

God I love the season of rumors. Seems Florinel Coman does not want to return to Qatar, not does he have a future at Cagliari. Reportedly we tried to get him a while back from Steaua but their owner put a stop to it. Perhaps now is the time? Good age, though he's got two more years on his contract, so probably won't be cheap. https://www.transfermarkt.us/florinel-coman/profil/spieler/340982 Of course, commentators now saying Benfica won't stand in the way of Meite leaving (as if that wasn't clear at this point): https://inpaok.com/863664/portogalika-mme-i-benfika-den-tha-einai-ebodio-gia-meite/ And I'll leave you with yet another piece on the team wanting to get younger - which, again, I'll believe when I see. Maybe the most mind-blowing stat here is that the average age in Europe was only slightly less that of our average age domestically, which is extra funny when you consider how many old players we did not register for Europa League. https://inpaok.com/863683/o-gerasmenos-paok-kai-o-stochos-tou-kalokairiou/

Just in case we were starting to feel TOO GOOD about how we beat AEK: https://inpaok.com/863639/apistefto-i-deav-timorise-tin-touba/

Lmao of course he wants Taison back, as if you thought this would go anywhere else. https://inpaok.com/863613/skepseis-gia-paramoni-taison-meite-ston-paok/ Not that I don't love Taison! But people need to make these "hard" decisions, and unfortunately the team is run solely based on vibes and sentimentality

I would be SUCH A GOOD destroyer, falling over because I had a heart attack after jogging for ten seconds and accidentally breaking up an attack in the process

BUT THEIR JERSEYS!!!!

A million is peanuts, considering what we spend on players we have no intention of playing... The articles today are focusing on how Lucescu had his meeting with Savvidis, and how the team is aware of the need for Greek players, as well as reinforcements along every line (defense, midfield, forwards), etc etc. I am sure all of them got the info from the same source, of course. The team also just hired that Greek guy that was in Madrid's academy system (https://www.sdna.gr/podosfairo/1307001_panagiotis-tsiknas-o-ellinas-analytis-tis-real-madritis-sto-dromo-toy-paok), as an assistant to Karypidis. Vieirinha expected to get a job somewhere in the administration as well. Team plans to ask Otto to make a decision soon, which of courser he won't because we have no leverage. Pavlenka probably will be re-signed as he seems to be interested in staying. For the B team - a few Nigerian kids, one of which I believe we spoke about a few days ago: https://inpaok.com/863580/o-paok-v-epimenei-stin-afriki/