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Taison re-signed and the team posted this, which I think is a pretty solid short. In B team news, Filon (CB) and Goumas (AM) are now moving on to Levadiakos.

InPAOK is saying the three strikers I mentioned up above are all no-gos. https://inpaok.com/867474/kataligei-se-for-o-paok/ Puttering around the advanced search options in transfermarkt gives....well, a lot of options. The only ones that look like they've seen action in several leagues are...well, Vinicius and Petkovic, who are implied not to be on the list. I don't get, though, why 6 million euros are too much for a player. Since when are we that poor? Why are we nickel and diming this transfer period? Super unimpressive tbh...

You may have jumped the gun, there are reports that the Bri'ish are coming for him as well.

Metrosport says these are the three guys on our radar. Anyone strike you folks' fancies? https://www.transfermarkt.us/luka-jovic/profil/spieler/257462 <-- kind of an injury history, decent age and very high wage. Probably knows Andrija though https://www.transfermarkt.us/matheus-saldanha/profil/spieler/740059 <-- wants to leave Hungary, but would not be free. Decent numbers. https://www.transfermarkt.us/carlos-vinicius/profil/spieler/525287 <-- a bit on the older side

If our third choice isn't one of our youth I will rescind my offer for you to date and marry my nonexistent daughter. A few days ago one of the blogs said Lucescu "wants to get another look at" Pena in preseason training. Like, guy, we already know you aren't going to play him. Why would you ruin the chance at a transfer (and just make the player more pissed off)? I think overall the club isn't really improved, but it seems they're at least moving faster. Having Pelkas from the start of the season is big, and Meite actually having the summer to train might also mean we see the version of him from two seasons ago. Who knows, maybe he'll surprise us.

Greg Taylor should be walking through those gates any second now. Plane landed about twenty minutes ago. My little boy Mythou just had his contract renewed as well.

Round three for Akpom? https://inpaok.com/867154/tha-proponeitai-monos-tou-o-akpom-ston-agiax/ I was wondering why he was talking so nicely about PAOK in recent interviews. Perhaps a little signal from him?

Pelkas officially wearing the #10 in training so in case anyone doubted that Murg was gone, I'm sorry for your loss.

WHEW! Confirmation! https://inpaok.com/867013/to-neo-aima-stin-proti-tou-paok/ Μπαταούλα, Μπαλντέ, Κωττά, Σνάουτσνερ, Τσοπούρογλου, Μπέρδος, Χατσίδη και Μύθου I'm also quite interested in Balde. That's the kid we got from Paphos on loan (and I have no idea why he's still in the team at this point) - his numbers last season were great, though, so this seems like a no-brainer to acquire him. Plays LW and sometimes RW. I once had a very weird couple of days in Paphos, so I can vouch for him needing to leave that area.

There are a few other names that have been tossed around, for CBs. I am not sure that these are super reliable though. One is Alessandro Dellavalle - he is a Torino player who played for Modena in Serie B last season. I have a feeling they will want to get younger in their back four, as nearly all of their players are 31-32. This might mean they keep the kid (who is 21). https://www.transfermarkt.us/alessandro-dellavalle/profil/spieler/704825 The other is Jao Goulart, who actually moved to Casa Pia just last year. He was in the second division in Portugal the year before. https://www.transfermarkt.us/joao-goulart/profil/spieler/537477 Also, some twitter account also says Pena accepted an offer back home in Peru and we're only waiting on PAOK to agree to terms (for what I assume is a loan).

NO MYTHOU?! A travesty. I wonder if more youth players are being given time off due to NT duties

Still some rumors of Pena going to Peru (not Brazil). Guess we'll see. For me the biggest need is that CB. Need a clear #1 there. We'll have four midfielders if you include Thymianis, and if Ozdoyev stays. So probably another one there, if Pena leaves. CF is obviously a need, and hopefully we will get someone that will pair well with Chalov. I don't think we actually need a LW, assuming Shoretire will actually get some minutes. I think the kid's got "it" and it's a damn shame we didn't play him much last year. What else? I don't think we move on an attacking mid unless Konstantelias gets sold. Pelkas can also cover all along that front line, which is another reason I don't think we need another LW. If Despodov gets sold, that might also require another guy. Really all depends on how much game time Taison and Shoretire are destined to get.

Team has announced Pavlenka's extension, through June 2027. Giorgos Lagonidis (from our B team, CB) will shortly be a free agent and has been announced by Volos as their newest poached signing. I believe I saw a blurb about Chatsidis (who was promoted to our B team in January, playing ST) being extended as well. I have a feeling Mythou (who was scoring for fun all last season) will find himself in our senior team as an unused third option as well. Mythou, btw, is 18 while Chatsidis is 19. -edit- late breaking news (on instagram, ew) that Meite has agreed to our latest offer and will be signing with us again. Is it really possible we'd have a signing and two renewals completed before day 1 of training? -edit again- even more late breaking news that we have a "verbal agreement" with Greg Taylor https://inpaok.com/866905/ektakto-proforiki-symfonia-me-teilor/

In case you wanted proof that all designs are fake, here are two completely different pictures. I like these a lot more than what I posted above, though. https://inpaok.com/866887/to-schedio-aetos-kai-i-matia-sti-nea-touba-pics/

Take this with a grain of salt the size of the Himalayas but the Turks are saying we snagged Petkovic: https://inpaok.com/866849/tourkika-mme-eipe-to-nai-ston-paok-o-petkovits/ 2mm a year is quite a lot...

They already have odds on if/when you'll be arrested for diddling a kid

I find that highly dubious, but what do I know! Just saw a post that the B team's Dimitris Tsopouroglou (right-back) just renewed his contract for 2+1. It was otherwise going to expire at the end of this month. Does this imply they think he's ready to challenge Sastre for second fiddle? He's already 23, so no spring chicken (and also hasn't exactly made waves). Weird move. https://www.transfermarkt.us/dimitrios-tsopouroglou/profil/spieler/591797

Oh god a 1+1

Sounds like we'll be seeing a new shirt sponsor; this time a Romanian betting company (they're gonna be so mad when Lucescu leaves). Six million per year for the next three years, per the people Blackhawk mistrusts: https://www.metrosport.gr/allazei-chorigo-stin-fanela-o-paok-pros-symfonia-me-6-ek-eyro-etisios-1193524 Here's a link to a site that might be more palatable for him: https://www.sdna.gr/podosfairo/1324243_paok-pro-ton-pylon-deal-me-neo-horigo

Who said it was ever gonna be built? I'm just a reporter, reporting on the news, compadre! I also wonder if the news sites are a bit more tightly wound up (financially) with the ownership than they'd like to admit. They all pounced on this same story today, loving those talking points. Then again, it's probably better to have a fool who volunteers to do your work than to have a fool you pay to do your work...

Too much time has gone by to edit the above (sorry for all the posts!) - it looks like Augusto is now a 6.5mm deal, which nets us 1.3mm. He's the gift that keeps on giving. In other news the most recent offer we gave to Meite has a "deadline" of Thursday, which means we'll be hiring him in mid-January. Quagliata is also heavily expected to be gone in the coming days, naturally.

Super underwhelming renders but here we go: https://inpaok.com/866699/oi-apantiseis-tou-paok-sta-erotimata-gia-ti-nea-touba/ https://inpaok.com/866696/i-enimerosi-tou-paok-gia-tin-nea-touba/

Most of the sites are quoting Taison in an interview saying PAOK is his first choice but he'll decide in the next week or so. Metrosport, meanwhile, is saying he's officially agreed and it just has to be announced. Not a surprising outcome. What exactly happened between him and Internacional? Some sort of player's strike? -edit- coming back to this because Augusto may be about to make us some more money. Krasnodar may be interested in him; we hold a 20% resale on the player so we might be looking at some cash coming in. I've seen both 4mm and 6mm tossed around, so that's 800k-1.2mm for us, if his team (Nantes) manage to fleece the Russkies. Meite, meanwhile, is the exact same story as before: https://inpaok.com/866687/telesigrafo-tou-paok-se-meite/

Same guy as last year, who didn't want to come here. ELEVATE MYTHOU

Last time we played Ajax in the preseason they didn't allow a broadcast of the game. Interesting that this would change