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First team meeting is scheduled for June 22, and for the next 6 days Lucescu will weed out the players that will not travel to Austria. We will play 4 or 5 games while in Austria. The games should be announced in the next few days.

All 51 games will be televised live on ESPN networks: ESPN: 39 games ESPN2: 7 games ABC: 5 games You can also stream the games on the ESPN apps, but you will probably need to authenticate that you subscribe to the channels (cable, satellite, etc) Also Univision network will show the games as well on their Univision and TUDN channels. The games will also be streamed via Univision's new streaming service Prende TV.

Agree, but UEFA has the power to change things to suit their agenda. Bert Kassies does not.

I think he will break it this year.

Lyratzis, Tsiggaras and Tsaousis have been called up by the U-21 coach for the Euro qualifying game against Liechtenstein on June 5, 2021.

It's possible he might keep Biseswar as a backup, but than again he will be 2 years older from the time he last coached him. Same goes for Varela and Crespo and I would not be surprised if they are replaced by younger players. Not sure how easy it will be to get rid of Esiti mainly due to his salary. Probably another loan solution for him. I am also interested to see what happens with our offense. We can probably assume Tzolis will be sold at any cost, so we can have a budget to bring in all these new players that Lucescu will want to bring. Maybe use some of that money to buy Krmencik, who could become Razavan's "Prijovic" on his new team, but I have a feeling Krmencik is not returning to PAOK. I would not be surprised to see Colak back from Sweden at the end of his loan in December. He also has a decision to make on Swiderski. Also if he has any say on the matter, I think Lucescu would like to keep El Kaddouri.

No disdain here. I consider myself a hobbyist as well and also consult those hobby site on frequent basis and I am very happy that they exist. Just saying that UEFA will have the final word.

Let's take another look at pash's list now that we have a new coach, who I believe will also serve as a temporary TD. It will be interesting to see who stays and who goes. I think some of the players on the list would make Pablo's team while they will not be on Lucescu's team. I am really waiting to see what will happen with Warda as well as some of the youngsters (Tsiggaras, Lyratzis).

Wiki, the One Drive file and Kassiesa lists are all compiled by hobbyists and are not official documents. In the end it's up to UEFA to come up with the official ruling. We should know soon as the draws for the first rounds are scheduled for mid-June. It would be nice to skip one round in the process.

Once again as fans we will need to have patience. Lucescu will basically be creating a new team. This will include getting rid of old players and bringing in new ones. It will be a building process and I don't expect results right away (the first season). There will be many obstacles along the way that he will need to overcome. Let's see if this team building process will push us in the FFP problem zone at the end of his tenure. As for Garcia, he was basically used by the administration to pull them out of the tough spot. Not only did the team get out of the FFP problems, we won a title at the end as well. I think it would be better for Pablo to leave the team right now and go somewhere else (Spain, etc.) and get the proper licenses and experience or he risks of becoming another Georgios Georgiadis.

Ionikos is controlled by the crude oil smuggler.

Just what we needed. Another Athenian suburban team controlled by the big guys in the Superleague.

Lucescu signed a 3-year contract for him and his 7-team coaching staff worth 1.7 mil Euro per season plus bonuses. Garcia was offered the position of PAOK B coach plus support to further his coaching education and acquire UEFA coaching license. He declined to accept or reject the offer at this time asking for more time.

I am still waiting for a Technical Director to be announced.

I really doubt Lucescu will be as successfull as the first time. There is no chance in hell he will go undefeated again, and we all know that's what the fans will demand and probably will be needed to win a title again. I'll give it about 3 months before grumbling starts.

Rumors are the Savvidis family is stabbing Garcia in the back and is bringing back Lucescu at 1.8 mil per year.

They played at their stadium this season. Just heard that Kosta Frantzeskos (PAOK, PAO, OFI legend) will be joining Larisa. Why would someone be signing with the sleazebag Kougias is beyond me.

We would start 2 weeks later.

We lost EL, but we can apparently move up to ECL-QR3 if Villarreal wins Europa League.

Garcia can't officially be the coach of the team since he does not have a UEFA coaching license, so on paper it's Thomaidis.

Krmencik declared MVP of the game, but I think it should have been Paschalakis in my opinion.

Did not have picture in the 2nd half. Only radio. Watching the replay of the game on ERT3 right now with my mind at ease as I know that there will be happy ending.

2:1 final Greek Cup winners

Krmencik 3rd time is the charm. 4 minutes extra time.

Gooooooooooooool