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Incidentally, he said in an interview a few months ago that he wants to retire a PAOK player. This contract would certainly see that happen. I wonder if there's a buy out clause?

Here's the list of players heading to Athens: Ρέι, Πασχαλάκης, Λέοβατς, Μάτος, Κρέσπο, Μαλεζάς, Σαμπράνο, Βαρέλα, Σάχοφ, Μαουρίσιο, Κάνιας, Τσίμιροτ, Πέλκας, Μπίσεσβαρ, Βιεϊρίνια, Κάμπος, Ελ Καντουρι, Μακ, Πρίγιοβιτς No real surprises here, apart from maybe Limnios. Siambanis, Kace, Deligiannidis not included in the squad as well. Good to see Campos and Varela in the list.

You know what's funny is I didn't even consider that we wouldn't score. I figured we'd get at least one; only question is if it'll be enough. I know, lots of big talk from me considering how awful our away form is.

Can you let Soula know that I admire her too?

People who look like they'd retaliate: Zambrano, Pelkas, Mak, Matos. Hopefully Lucescu is giving them some lessons in:

For sure. I'm reading that Oly will have some absences, but I don't think any vital players for them. I also saw yesterday that their stadium was nearly sold out. Hopefully there will be some crowd trouble.

Asteras and Atromitos at home in that run of games will also be no walkover. A good showing across these games will let us know if the team is championship material.

I wouldn't be surprised either. However, Skibbe might recognize that without a linkup between the DMs and the attackers, our performance in all phases of the game will suffer. To his credit, he used an AM away vs Bosnia... Goddamn right

Agreed. Expect the most defensive possible lineup. Just have to hope some of our players decide to break the rules and actually attack (I'm looking at you, Stafylidis).

I believe Skibbe's contract is only through the cup anyway. No results = no new contract, sounds reasonable to me.

I do agree that Campos would be good for this game, better than Vieirinha - but considering that he hasn't even been making the bench, it's clear that Vieirinha will get the start.

Well if we're going to go nuts, let's go with the formation that earned Mak his trip to Zenit! --Rey-- --Crespo--Varela--Zambrano-- --Matos--Mauricio--Cimirot--Vieirinha-- --Pelkas--Mak-- --Prijovic-- I can already see Tudor's smile.

Koulouris' red card is three games. Who needs strikers anyway?

I think much of the lineup selects itself. --Rey-- --Matos--Zambrano--Crespo--Leovac-- --Mauricio--xx --Vieirinha-- xx xx --Prijovic-- Those last three spots could go one of a few ways. Personally, I'd play Mak at LW and Cimirot next to Mauricio - this is, after all, the exact kind of game he would excel in. For me, Biseswar is still by far our best AM and should start there. And if not him, then Pelkas. Lucescu, however, is unlikely to really change the lineup much...so I bet we'll see El Kaddouri in the middle with Pelkas at LW. I think all of those players will make an appearance either way, barring unforeseen injuries. Can't wait for this Sunday.

Leveque's right leg is hurt, probably the same issue I noted above. Leovac, however, has no serious injury and should be training normally soon.

It would be ballsy of him to sit Prijovic...

We can beat them. Do we have the exact dates announced yet? -edit- looks like the 9th and 12th

Katsikas(!) scored twice vs Juventus Bucharest yesterday. Video below, his goals start at 3:20

A win here would be absolutely massive. Let's hope Oly is suitably exhausted from their Barcelona ass whupping from midweek.

PAO just won vs Larissa, 2-1. Also down to 9 men. Haven't seen any of the clips.

We didn't buy him to keep him forever. If we win the championship, then by all means sell him (the clause is there for a reason). Of course, if we win, then possible CL entry might be enough to entice a few guys who are on the fence, to stay. But I'm getting ahead of myself...

9-man Xanthi has managed to hold AEK to a 1-1 draw. We stay in first place. Goals in the 40th (Xanthi - Brito) and 88th (AEK - Vranjes). The reds were at 56' and 73'.

Prijovic now the top scorer in the league (5 goals). Finally got ahead of Fortounis, who includes three penalties in his tally of four goals. Pelkas is our next highest scorer in the league, with a measly two goals. AEK will be playing in a few hours vs Xanthi, hopefully Xanthi will give us a gift. Currently, we're also first place in the league, barring this result.

Perhaps El Kaddouri will show that at some point, I look forward to seeing it ;)

BTW, Biseswar is far better than El Kaddouri in my book. He needs to be the one who's starting, not the other way around.