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You got off lucky bud; these sleezy lawyers can easily take you to the cleaners!

I am just now realizing that AEK has not won a "league" match since Feb 23. Incredible. They had a win in their second leg vs Olympiakos (where it proved impossible to overturn the first leg), but every other match since Asteras Tripolis was a loss. Doesn't this make it even more pathetic that we only barely managed to end the season ahead of them? If we had beaten Kallithea in the last match day, we would have ended this season in second place. Ugh.

^ Lucescu's classic "he doesn't know what I am looking for" nonsense.

I will live to be a hundred before that happens, mark my words. I think it was kind of an "extreme need" last season to have enough Greeks too, and we still failed to do it. At some point we need to promote from the B team. I say start Shola at LW and promote an understudy to ride the bench and get garbage time minutes. It's wild to me that we can be SO EXCITED when we have home grown players like Koulierakis do well, but completely fail to understand that you can't identify those people without actually playing them. Like, Koulierakis basically only got time because Lucescu was forced to play him due to Michailidis' injury. And if I recall correctly, Michailidis - who was Koulierakis before Koulierakis - only got a chance to show what he could do when the three journeymen before him failed to stay healthy. Ugh now I'm all worked up.

The funny thing about Meite is that there was some "talk" online about how Benfica just really wanted to get rid of his wages. Kind of funny considering how outrageous their buy-out clauses are. If there are no buyers, I could see us taking him on loan (with that wage) through the end of his original contract. It's a much tougher sell when you have to also put millions more down on a player... I agree with what you say above though. And between Schwab and Ozdoyev, I'm a Schwab guy. Better leader, and just as skillful. -edit- Just saw this, unrelated to the above. Don't want to spam with new posts so adding as an edit. https://inpaok.com/863404/o-paok-krataei-ton-balnte/ He came in on a one-year contract; I think it's a bit much to expect him to get promoted to the first team, but perhaps we'd see him in the B team. Nice numbers, though - 9 goals and 4 assists in 22 matches. Just on those stats, you'd think the team would want to retain him.

That kid has a much better chance at success being born literally anywhere else, but okay. Anyway, to take stock, here are a list of players who have expiring contracts. This is the ideal situation for a reset, as we all know. This is nearly 40% of the squad, by the way. Vieirinha (retired) Taison Schwab Ozdoev Meite (loan, unknown buyout) Colley Otto Samatta Bakayoko Wieteska (loan, buyout of 1.5mm) Thomas Pavlenka Balomenos There have been rumors of us re-signing Pavlenka, which seems odd considering we just hired the Georgian kid. This must mean Balomenos will go free, though. He played ten times for the B team, but we have four other (and younger) keepers in that squad too. Would any of you re-sign any of the above? I have no idea what Meite would cost, but I'd guess Lucescu will push for him. I feel he will want to re-sign as many of these guys as possible, actually which is a huge mistake. I doubt Otto will stay on, as well. The early rumors I heard were not encouraging - that they will be targeting a "free agent" RB as a "plan B." If you look at the current free agent RBs on transfermarkt, there are very slim pickings. There are a gaggle of better options that will be available after June 30th, however. One that is notable to me is Milan Gajic, who is a Serb that may be departing CSKA Moscow (https://www.transfermarkt.com/milan-gajic/profil/spieler/245030). I will also note he has a +1 option on his contract, which would be enacted upon mutual consent.

The streams were staying up to show it, but I moved over to the PAOK one just in case. Here's a link if any of you haven't seen it yet:

Lamela and Kedziora have been s%$#! talking each other for most of the first half. Hopefully they don't both get the boot.

Holy s%$#! is that a goal of the season contender? With his off foot??

If the score is favorable, Vieirinha should play as a winger so he doesn't make the score UNfavorable, thank you very much

Even Santos is being flown in to watch the celebration 😭 https://inpaok.com/862954/erchetai-gia-to-antio-tou-vieirinia-o-santos/ And we'll have a special kit for this one, it seems. Maybe one of the Molto era styles?

Just wanted to slip in a dig against your fav domestic team, huh? I'm here for it babe

Seems it would be a silly move for him career-wise but 20 million is a perfectly acceptable price for me. https://inpaok.com/862867/diapragmatefseis-zenit-gia-konstantelia/

so what you're saying is, he's learning his lesson Looks like Dimitris Hatsidis is now training with the senior team. If I'm reading this right, he was promoted mid-season to the B team, has played 11 games, scored once, and gotten one assist. Must have been playing second fiddle to Hurtado, who of course will not be kept on. https://www.transfermarkt.com/dimitrios-chatsidis/profil/spieler/1075793 I wonder if we'll see him at the preseason camp. Guess it depends on if Razvan likes what he sees this week.

Honest Abe was a master of USENET and was a founding father of 4chan

...why would we jump on a guy who played for Kallithea??? https://inpaok.com/862587/mme-polonias-o-paok-koitazei-ton-alfarela/ https://www.transfermarkt.us/migouel-alfarela/profil/spieler/590841

Not the end of the world, but sucks not to have the chance to qualify. Panathinaikos is destined for Conference League either way. Such a waste.

The table as it stands now would be very much in our favor. But we can def win this. Come on guys use the power of feta and living at home with your parents until you're 45!

THANK YOU MY DEAR

What a day for no streams to exist (so far). Tuning in to the radio now. Oh god please let us score three (which is what I bet on)

I would MUCH rather have Brandon start than Samatta. But Chalov should be the guy. It's so painfully obvious how much better he is than the others...

What a blessed day for rumors! https://inpaok.com/862273/omada-ton-play-off-tis-super-league-ekleise-dyo-paiktes-apo-ti-roumania/ https://www.transfermarkt.us/fc-hermannstadt/startseite/verein/58049 So basically a LW and LB. The Romanians very much play up their Lucescu connection, even though he has gone out of his way to s%$#! talk Romanian players. Those salaries look pretty unbelievable too. The other rumor: https://inpaok.com/862261/o-paok-parakolouthei-tin-periptosi-tou-alesantro-franko/ I have no idea who that is, and can't find any mention of him, like, anywhere. Are we being pranked?

COMIN' IN HAWT: https://inpaok.com/862076/kineitai-epithetika-gia-loutseskou-i-al-chilal/ Then: https://inpaok.com/862073/i-al-chilal-thelei-ton-loutseskou-kai-prosferei-mythiko-symvolaio/ Why would he move if he's getting paid the same amount? I'd think he'd take a pay cut to go to a better league, but I don't see a ton of appeal here, apart from maybe his past association with the kingdom.

Ohmygawd guys just kiss already https://inpaok.com/861967/olo-kai-pio-zestos-gia-pavlenka-o-paok/

Another rejection, coming in the same order in which the rumors started. Interesting. I don't think we usually see this. https://inpaok.com/861935/edose-neo-akyro-o-loutseskou/