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Finally starting to take control of the game. I hate that this happens so often, though. Ozdoyev and Murg both spending time in pain; good thing those are the two players most likely to have been subbed off anyway. Was the Ozdoyev one a hit to the head? I missed the actual contact.

It'll only have to last until minute 60. Lucescu is right about one thing - they cannot progress if they do not attack. That will open them up for our preferred way of playing.

He kind of telegraphed in his press conference that there would be no changes. But the Konstantelias one is truly bizarre. He missed, what, ten days of preseason a month ago? And even then was just training separately from the rest of the team?

I've been trying to talk PaokCT off a cliff here. I watched about half of this game. Malmo is nothing special (they definitely didn't look better than Ki). We definitely, definitely can take them (even without Tissoudali and Chalov). Also not all that worried about tomorrow's game - Lucescu is a master of manipulating his players and getting their head in the right place. I expect to see a better game, and have our guys come in hot vs Borac.

I had noticed in his highlights that he used to wear the 47, so I don't think we can attribute this to Akpom this time 😉

My boy! One of my all-time fav PAOK players

Hey, Superleague - I am happy to fly the jolly roger, but also happy to give you cash FOR A REAL STREAMING SERVICE, just saying 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

If it's available on streaming, what does it matter?

Am I going crazy, or did I see a while back that Novasports and Cosmote had agreed to some sort of sharing of home games? And of course, that question extends to what happens with that online overseas streaming service? I ended up not bothering last season because of how few games were actually being carried. Could be a game changer if I can now get like 90% of the matches...

Still hoping we unload both Ekong and Nasberg. https://inpaok.com/829551/treis-omades-apo-ti-saoudiki-aravia-gia-ton-ekongk/ Making any money at all off of him will be a big win.

Borac's gonna get belly rubs from 1/3 of their presidency; we're DOOMED

Apparently we also tried to move on this guy, Imran Louza: https://www.transfermarkt.us/imran-louza/profil/spieler/635336 Seems he wasn't interested. Can always rely on the English to spend a ton of cash on someone they decide to loan out nearly immediately!

Yeah I don't get it. The press conference will actually be tomorrow in Toumba, from what I saw. Are they trying to avoid the local press for some reason? Weird.

Strange timeline. Savvidis has been at his resort for a few days now, right? He must have negotiated this a while back, if so.

ALREADY LIKIN' THE KID! https://inpaok.com/829390/allagi-planon-me-soretire/ Also, among the first pics of the new guy in training: Two more to go; let's see if Chalov actually happens.

Yeah, you prefer watching 16 year olds in person/behind a bush

They're saying Tissoudali has passed his physical, but the announcement probably won't be made until Sunday. Not sure if that means he trained today. Several sites (who are probably copying and pasting from each other) are saying Razvan Marin is back in play, with us having given an offer of 3.5mm to Cagliari, and 1.2mm per year (+ 500k signing bonus) for the player. I would LOVE this move; as I said to our coach friend earlier, his highlights remind me of a cross between Misic and Cimirot. This one, meanwhile, has come completely out of the blue: He plays as an attacking midfielder, and is currently a free agent. I'm guessing he would be relatively cheap; my suspicion is that we'll also be selling Konstantelias by December (if not August), so perhaps the team is considering the luxury of having a kid ride the bench/vie for backup privileges with Murg? https://www.transfermarkt.us/shola-shoretire/profil/spieler/640026

Another new rumor (sorry folks, can't stop now). This time, of an alleged offer we made that was rejected: https://www.transfermarkt.us/dejan-ljubicic/profil/spieler/287188 His brother plays for AEK (gross)

Nuremberg is playing a friendly vs Juventus, live on youtube: Our boy isn't starting (game is in the 27th minute as I write this). Probably will play in the second half.

Tissoudali has arrived at SKG. Was on youtube and saw that PAOK Today had started up a livestream. These people are too much. I love watching video at 144p resolution!

Chalov was allegedly a done deal like five days ago, but now the sites are copying-pasting an update today about how they're still trying to convince him to come, and Savvidis just met with him, etc etc etc. My guess is that this is not as sure a thing as we were led to believe. -edit- one more update: Tissoudali, which was also a "done deal" is now expected some time in the PM on Sunday. Also, Quagliata was "announced" by his new team, but I haven't seen any announcements by PAOK. Not that I'm upset.

Panathinaikos won vs Botev Plovdiv, 2-1. I wonder if their fans are panicking as much as ours?

Here are the top twenty leagues, btw. We made up a few points relative to Scotland, but still have a hill to climb. I believe the points for teams that qualified directly to their respective league stages are already included here, so Scotland already got their boost. # country 20/21 21/22 22/23 23/24 24/25 ranking teams 1 England 24.357 21.000 23.000 17.375 3.428 89.160 7/ 7 2 Italy 16.285 15.714 22.357 21.000 3.750 79.106 8/ 8 3 Spain 19.500 18.428 16.571 16.062 3.428 73.989 7/ 7 4 Germany 15.214 16.214 17.125 19.357 3.750 71.660 8/ 8 5 France 7.916 18.416 12.583 16.250 2.571 57.736 7/ 7 6 Netherlands 9.200 19.200 13.500 10.000 2.000 53.900 6/ 6 7 Portugal 9.600 12.916 12.500 11.000 2.400 48.416 5/ 5 8 Belgium 6.000 6.600 14.200 14.400 1.200 42.400 5/ 5 9 Turkey 3.100 6.700 11.800 12.000 0.200 33.800 5/ 5 10 Czech Republic 6.600 6.700 6.750 13.500 0.200 33.750 5/ 5 11 Israel 7.000 6.750 6.250 8.750 0.125 28.875 4/ 4 12 Norway 6.500 7.625 5.750 8.000 0.250 28.125 4/ 4 13 Austria 6.700 10.400 4.900 4.800 1.200 28.000 5/ 5 14 Scotland 8.500 7.900 3.500 6.400 1.200 27.500 5/ 5 15 Greece 5.100 8.000 2.125 11.400 0.500 27.125 4/ 4 16 Denmark 4.125 7.800 5.900 8.500 0.250 26.575 4/ 4 17 Switzerland 5.125 7.750 8.500 5.200 0.000 26.575 5/ 5 18 Poland 4.000 4.625 7.750 6.875 0.750 24.000 4/ 4 19 Ukraine 6.800 4.200 5.700 4.100 1.400 22.200 4/ 5 20 Serbia 5.500 9.500 5.375 1.400 0.000 21.775 5/ 5 21 Croatia 5.900 6.000 3.375 5.875 0.000 21.150 4/ 4 VERY important for us to have four teams making the group stages of these competitions. Not gonna make progress otherwise.

Cheer up, everyone. Their goals were from dumb mistakes on our part. We go in with an advantage; we will improve. Fixing mental lapses is, like, Lucescu's specialty.

Hopefully a different M-player