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Akpom officially announced. One year loan. Salary 800K. Buyout option 3 million.

One more goal for Tzolis who makes it 5:0

After the game with Rijeka we can expect a lot of player movement (coming and laving). Some of the rumors: - close to Ferreira Pereira Sidcley (left back) from Dinamo Kiev. PAOK and Kiev came to an agreement for a loan which includes 2 million buyout clause. Sidcley hardly played for Dinamo Kiev, so he makes a perfect transfer target for PAOK. Looks like Lucescu's father Mircea who coached Dinamo Kiev wants to unload the player. - loan of Romanian attacking midfielder Alexandru Mitrita who belongs to New York FC but is loaned to team in Saudi Arabia, so we need them to break the loan for the deal to proceed. - Chuba Akpom is apparently already in Thessaloniki and ready to sign a loan deal. - APOEL wants Warda. Apparently they don't know what they are getting into.

One more proof that Tzolis was saving himself and not giving it all for half a season with PAOK.

When he left PAOK's U19 team to go to Napoli it was because of Pablo Garcia. Don't know the reason though. It was probably due to his playing time.

Tzolis scores in his first game as Norwich player:

I think we will make transfers either way, but the quality of players will be different. Of course all the moves will happen after Thursday. And not only players coming in, but also players leaving the team.

Vrakas does not like Garcia.

And the Norwich coach really let him have it saying that he could not wait until halftime to take him out. He said he waited until then because he did not want to embarrass Giannoulis by pulling him out earlier.

Watched Tsitsipas today against Zverev in the semifinals of the Cincinnati Open. I can now safely proclaim that Tsitsipas nothing but a "loser". He can't mentally finish a match. He needs to hire a psychologist to help him in that aspect of the game if he wants to become and stay in the top 3 of men's tennis.

Atromitos wants him on loan and made a request to PAOK. If we can get rid of Esiti before August 31st than Tsiggaras will probably stay. Otherwise he might be loaned. Also Tsiggaras is refusing so far to sign a contract extension. He did the same thing last season before he agreed to 1 year extension. Would be a shame if he left the team in my opinion.

With the absence of Tzolis we were short one youth player on the squad. Talichmanidis filled that spot.

Well the team should get a proper LB and then have Vierinha available as a back up for both RB and LB position.

Enjoy your stay on Thassos. Nice island. Had one of my best vacations in Greece on that island, but that was long time ago.

Looks like the television rights issues are being resolved and we might have a Superleague kickoff next weekend. Today it was announced that Tripoli will sign with Nova, which means that the rest of the 5 teams that don't have a contract will sign with COSMOTE as long as the standing offer of 8 mil does not change. That would mean that on Monday they will vote and approve the start of the season. That will leave PAOK as the only team without the TV contract. Rumors are that we will sign a 10 mil contract with NOVA, or go the route of PAOK TV as last resort.

Why don't you just switch and become 'O' Aris supporter then. That way you will be aligned with the team that you seem to support and plays the best football in Greece. In any case, the fact that you claim to be from Sydney in Austria leads me to think that you an old "friend" form the past. Very very past, going all the way back to the original Phantis/Greeksoccer days in 1997.

I think he would be a good signing on loan now that we have the injury to Oliveira, but it looks like we are not interested.

VS MATCHUP: HNK Rijeka – PAOK Thessaloniki FC COMPETITION: Europa Conference League – Playoff Round - Leg 2 DATE: 26-August-2021 TIME: 21:00 EEST (18:00 UTC, 13:00 CDT, 04:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Rijeka – Stadion Rujevica (8,279) REFEREES: Serhiy Boiko – Vysotskyi, Zaporozhenko (Ukraine) TELEVISION: TBA PAOK’s History against teams from Croatia in European Competitions 2021-2022: PAOK FC – HNK Rijeka 1:1 – (90. Own goal) – Att: ? – Europa Conference League (Playoff Round – Leg 1) 2015-2016: PAOK FC – NK Lokomotiva Zagreb 6:0 – (3. Lucas, 7. Mak, 14. Pelkas, 34. Kitsiou, 60. Own goal, 84. Mak)) – Att: 17,927 – Europa League (Qualifying Round 2 – Leg 2) 2015-2016: NK Lokomotiva Zagreb – PAOK FC 2:1 – (90. Mak) - Att: 1,000 – Europa League (Qualifying Round 2 – Leg 1) 2010-2011: NK Dinamo Zagreb – PAOK FC 0:1 – (60. Salpiggidis) - Att: 29,226 – Europa League (Group Stage, Round 6) 2010-2011: PAOK FC – NK Dinamo Zagreb 1:0 – (55. Ivic) – Att: 17,927 – Europa League (Group Stage, Round 2) GAMES: 5 WINS: 3 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 1

Did you go to the game?

Don't think you can get more fit in one week. We will need to play smart game. For Rijeka to advance they need to score too, so they will not be parking the bus as they otherwise would if we did not tie the game. Some of our big players will need to perform. I would sit Biseswar and start Kagawa instead. Use Biseswar in the second half.

Sure it is. Savvidis died year and a half ago. Actually he was poisened by the CIA on orders from Marinakis.. That's why he has not made any public appearances. At the same time his son George died too. He was killed in a car accident. That's why he has not posted anything on Twitter as well. If Metrosport says it it must be true.

It took an own goal for us to score in the last second of the game.

Zivkovic will be a dud until he gets a new contract or is sold. I don't really see a way of turning this thing around.

Exactly. We could only play at high intensity for about 20 minutes. After that we started making mistakes and giving the ball away, which eventually led to the goal. Now it will be impossible to break their compact defense. Most likely scenario is another goal on counter.

Unbelievable save by Paschalakis