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Seems Nova has gotten the rights to show this game. Is it too much to hope that Paramount+ will have this in the US (as they have the actual CL, while also having last year's conference league qualifiers)? So far, nothing showing up on their site.

Home fans chanting U-C-K, which gives me some Kace flashbacks

Game is already spicy!

Tsaousis may have some interest from Portugal, as well as possibly teams in Greece. There isn't really room for him in the squad now, which is a shame because I recall thinking he was looking pretty good before we loaned him last year. https://inpaok.com/828111/protasi-gia-tsaousi/ Ozdoyev shows up every few days with a new possible suitor that is rebuffed immediately. Take that as you will: https://inpaok.com/828117/senaria-kai-diapsefsi-gia-ozntoef/ This one is probably for someone to join our B team: https://inpaok.com/828115/pairnei-talento-apo-kypro-o-paok/ Pafos' K19s are remarkably international, so that doesn't really narrow things down: https://www.transfermarkt.us/pafos-fc-u19/startseite/verein/93474/saison_id/2024 And of course, the Kotarski saga continues: https://inpaok.com/828101/manatzer-kotarski-anoichti-i-pithanotita-metagrafis/

MDs 14-17 gonna be rough, with that many away games (capped off by vs Panathinaikos). Does playing Panathinaikos at home on MD4 benefit us, I wonder? It looks like we have no back to back derbies in the regular season, at least.

Allegedly. Just like Meite, he'll probably still try to string us along. Team needs to move on a good player, now. If we're willing to drop two million (salary) on someone, then there should be dozens of appropriate players we can now target.

THE STRIPES REMIND ME OF MY OWN TEARS, STREAKING DOWN MY FACE!!!

New jerseys were announced earlier. Thoughts? I'm glad they didn't move away from the stripes like they did a while back. The extra stripe down the middle is kind of busy-looking IMO. But not bad.

So you think Ivan lied about Ingason?

Did you consider that he's the one that told the lie? Or that he was telling the truth, then changed his mind? Why are you like this?

I wish we sold MORE people when real offers came in. What a healthy club that would be!

That's the thing - I think we can make it to the UCL without more players. Brugge is better than most of the teams we might come up against. And honestly, we are unlikely to have any new signings play at this point anyway, unless they acclimate incredibly quickly. I will remain paranoid until I see something that excites me. I just am lacking faith after seeing their preseason games.

Probably an overestimation of his love for us. I don't really care about this one way or another, really. He will be another in a long line of people who come back to Greece and don't make an impact.

(I blame Razvan for wanting to keep a team together that will be absolutely humiliated if they make it to the Champions League)

He is the wind beneath my wings

Probably a combination of the team not wanting to spend money until they guarantee Europe, and nobody wanting to come play for a team in Greece that might not be in Europe. It will always be an uphill battle. Similarly, I would expect Kotarski to underperform now that he's attracted some Italian interest. Same exact case as with Shakhov - he'll take a pay cut to play for a garbage team in a more attractive league, probably. Don't be shocked if Konstantelias goes the same route. I think we'll lose multiple players by end of August - which is not in itself a problem, if we actually replace them.

I missed both of them because I dropped an entire open bag of kritharaki and was trying to find all the bits so I could still feed you tonight 😞

Currently losing 2-1 vs Vitesse too

I THOUGHT the crowd looked sexier!

Here is the first game's lineup:

Kotarski "rumors" keep coming back and forth. Yesterday it was us rejecting 8.5mm for him. Today I am seeing that they asked to take him on loan for this season for 1 million, and then a mandatory purchase clause for another 4 million, for 95% of his rights. If that second one is true, the #s are truly insulting. I'd think about that 8.5mm, assuming we have a replacement lined up. Especially if we've secured CL participation.

Apparently Haitian media says we might want this guy. https://www.transfermarkt.us/frantzdy-pierrot/profil/spieler/492955 The club is basically flush with cash right now...there is no reason to go for decent players from garbage leagues. SPEND SOME MONEY, IVAN

Some sites are saying Kedziora will be announced on Saturday (due to "procedural issues"), while others are saying he'll be announced today. Regardless of when the signing is announced, he is now officially a free agent (his profile on Transfermarkt has been updated), and is free to practice with the team, presumably as soon as today. -edit- it seems we may have upped the payment on our end to 400k, to cover more of what the Ukranians owed the player. Seems reasonable to me.

The mighty Aris apparently has received a VERY severe penalty for their antics in the cup final; since the team didn't accept their medals they are all banned for the first two games. The danger for us, of course, is if they field their K19 lineup for those games and suddenly discover they're all budding superstars 😞 😞 😞 I think the EPO should fine PAOK just in case.

Not a great game, but at @PaokCT tells me, I gotta calm my ass!