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Polish fake news are reporting that Bologna has offered 6 mil for Swiderski, while PAOK demands 7 and that we are very close to closing the deal. Biseswar is close to Apollon Limassol. They are willing to pay 200K for the rest of the season. Esiti will most likely sign with Goetzepe on Thursday.

VS MATCHUP: PAOK Thessaloniki - AE Larisa COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Round 1 – Leg 1 DATE: 20-January-2021 TIME: 17:15 EET (15:15 GMT, 09:15 CST, 02:15 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (28,703) REFEREES: Euaggelos Gratsanis (Trikala) - Hasan Koula (Xanthi), Konstantinos Kalambokis (Aitolokarnania) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport (Greece), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) PAOK – AE Larisa Greek Cup History: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2016-2017: PAOK – AE Larisa 2:0 (28. Mystakidis, 41. Pereyra) - Attendance: No fans (Group Stage – Round 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2003-2004: PAOK – AE Larisa 1:1 (10. Giasemis) - Attendance: no fans (Ambelokipi Stadium (Round 1 – Leg 1) 2003-2004: AE Larisa – PAOK 0:3 (14. Hagan, 41. Spasic, 86. Giasemis) - Attendance: ? (Round 1 – Leg 2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1984-1985: PAOK – AE Larisa 1:4 (56. Skartados-p) - Attendance: 24,994 (Final – played at OAKA, Athens) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1990-1991: PAOK – AE Larisa 3:0 (41. Lagonidis, 78. Borbokis, 83. Karageorgiou) - Attendance: ? (Quarterfinal – Leg 1) 1990-1991: AE Larisa – PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: ? (Quarterfinal – Leg 2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GAMES: 6 WINS: 3 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 2

Interesting article about new Toumba stadium: https://archistadia.it/paok-nuovo-stadio-progetto/

Missed watching all the action in the 2nd half. Saw the first half on my cell phone while eating breakfast in a restaurant in Pittsburgh. Listened to the 2nd half driving home. It was an enjoyable drive as the team won easily. Great to see all the youngsters getting playing time.

The sad thing is that Emmanoulidis's mother passed away just last week.

Always rubbed me the wrong way as far as his reporting goes.

El Kaddouri, Zivkovic, Ingason to miss this game due to cards. Also possibly not travelling to Crete are Esiti and Augusto.

The 1 mil is for the 6 month loan and 7.5 mil + 20% resale if they buy him in the summer. Do we know for sure that the purchase is specifically dependent on Norwich getting promoted to Premier League, or will they need to renegotiate a new deal with PAOK if they don't. I am saying that because there is rumor that if Norwich does not buy him in the summer, Giannoulis automatically extends his contract with PAOK until June 2023. In other news the lamogio Toskitsis reports at Sportime.gr that Michailidis will move out from PAOK the same way (loan + purchase option) later this month.

Which is not bad of a deal at all considering the current situation. PAOK did not have much leverage shopping the player. The bad thing is that Giannoulis did not want to cooperate with the team so we could get a better deal when he refused to extend his contract last summer. That's Paul Koutsioliakos for you. He pulled the same stunt with Pelkas. I guess PAOK management will never learn to stay away from this agent. he screwed us on several occasions. Also it was also evident that the player did not want to be on the team anymore considering his performance in the last few games. That's why getting 8.5 mil is not such a bad deal, and is fairly close to the buyout clause in his contract (10 mil). After Prijovic it will be our best sale in history.

Looks like the Giannoulis sale is a done deal. Norwich wanted to loan him for 500K for the rest of the season with a 7.5 mil purchase option if they get promoted to Premier League. PAOK is demanded an outright sale. Apparently the two teams worked out their differences. Looks like Sunday's game will be Giannoulis's last game for PAOK. At the same time PAOK is looking for LB with Stafylidis and Ferrari of Volos as replacements. In other Fake/real news and rumors: - Augusto does not have the flu as reported. He's playing sick after asking the team that he wants to move to another team. Reports are that he wants to join Ferreira in Palmeiras. - Esiti's loan to Turkey is still apparently on and being worked on - We are still shopping Colak around, but looks like nobody is biting. - Apparently the team received a 4 mil offer for Swiderski, but I place this rumor way beyond Trump's Fake News definition

VS MATCHUP: O.F.I. - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Round 17 DATE: 17-January-2021 TIME: 17:15 EET (15:15 UTC, 09:15 CST, 02:15 AEDT next day) CITY / STADIUM: Iraklio – Th. Vardinogiannis Stadium (Capacity: 8,150) REFEREES: Anastasios Papapetrou (Athens) - Tryfonas Petropoulos (Arkadia), Iordanis Aptsoglou (Athens) TELEVISION: Novasport2 (Greece, Cyprus), NovasportsWorld (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus, Antenna Satellite/Antenna Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) O.F.I. vs. P.A.O.K. history: Superleague 2019-2020: 2:2 (Biseswar, Michailidis) - Attendance: nf (PLAYOFFS) 2019-2020: 0:1 (Misic) - Attendance: 5,807 2018-2019: 1:3 (Biseswar, Matos, Jaba) - Attendance: 5,186 2017-2018: Did not play in Superleague 2016-2017: Did not play in Superleague 2015-2016: Did not play in Superleague 2014-2015: 3:1 (Papadopoulos) - Attendance: 3,026 2013-2014: 1:1 (Necid) - Attendance: 5,193 2012-2013: 1:1 (Fotakis) - Attendance: 2,487 2011-2012: 0:2 (Giannou 2) - Attendance: 3,646 2010-2011: Did not play in Superleague 2009-2010: Did not play in Superleague 2008-2009: 0:2 (Antonio, Conceicao) - Attendance: 3,857 (2,500 PAOK fans) 2007-2008: 2:0 - Attendance: 2,540 2006-2007: 1:0 - Attendance: 3,032 2005-2006: 2:1 (Giasemis) - Attendance: 4,137 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2004-2005: 2:2 (Salpiggidis-p, Maladenis) - Attendance: ? 2003-2004: 0:3 (Salpiggidis, Giannitsanakis, Hagan) - Attendance: 2,725 2002-2003: 2:3 (Kafes, Okkas, Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 2,999 2001-2002: 4:1 (Georgiadis-p) - Attendance: 2,508 2000-2001: 0:0 - Attendance: 2,134 1999-2000: 2:0 - Attendance: ? (200 PAOK fans) 1998-1999: 3:2 (Vryzas, Konstantinidis) - Attendance: 2,507 1997-1998: 2:1 (Toursounidis-p) - Attendance: ? 1996-1997: 3:1 (Dimkovski) - Attendance: ? (NOTE: PAOK forgot their jerseys in Thessaloniki and played the game with jerseys they borrowed from OFI) 1995-1996: 2:1 (Giakoudis-p) - Attendance: 2,477 1994-1995: 2:1 (Karasavidis) - Attendance: ? 1993-1994: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1992-1993: 4:0 - Attendance: 3,982 1991-1992: 1:1 (Anastasiadis) - Attendance: ? 1990-1991: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1989-1990: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1988-1989: 3:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: ? 1987-1988: 2:2 (Mavromatis-p, Mavreas) - Attendance: 5,902 1986-1987: 1:1 (Psarras) - Attendance: 10,918 1985-1986: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1984-1985: 3:1 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ? 1983-1984: 4:0 - Attendance: 5,024 1982-1983: 2:1 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: 4,914 1981-1982: 0:1 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ? 1980-1981: 0:2 (Vasilakos 2) - Attendance: 4,448 1979-1980: 2:1 (Sarafis-p) - Attendance: 4,839 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 1:1 (own goal) - Attendance: ? 1977-1978: 2:1 (Kermanidis) - Attendance: ? 1976-1977: 2:1 (Sarafis) - Attendance: 5,850 (played in Rethymnos) 1970-1971: 2:2 (Matzourakis-p, Sarafis) - Attendance: ? 1969-1970: 3:1 (Giakoumis) - Attendance: ? 1968-1969: 1:1 (Mitrakas) - Attendance: 7,302 GAMES: 43 WINS: 9 TIES: 13 LOSSES: 21 PAOK playing with borrowed jerseys from OFI in 1996-1997:

Much improvement in the 2nd half. We deserved the win since Olympiakos did not create a single chance in the 2nd half and we should have been able to hold on to the 1 goal lead. Big blame goes to Paschalakis on the goal. I would hope Zivkovic gets the start in the next game. MVP of the game Warda in my opinion. Too bad the Tzolis shot did not go in.

1:1

Ingason 1:0

We will need to improve in 2nd half in order to get anything out of this game. Eventually they will score on one of their attacks.

And here is the actual lineup: ------------- Paschalakis ------------- Vieirinha - Ingason - Crespo - Giannoulis ----- Schwab --------- El Kaddouri ----- Zivkovic ------- Warda ----------- Murg --------------- Krmencik --------------- Almost got it right, but surprisingly Gracia left Tzolis out for some unexplained reason.

Esiti, Michailidis and Biseswar out as well. The absence of Esiti probably means that his transfer is near. With that in mind my lineup for the game: ------------- Paschalakis ------------- Vieirinha - Ingason - Crespo - Giannoulis ----- Schwab --------- El Kaddouri ----- Zivkovic ------- Warda ----------- Tzolis --------------- Krmencik ---------------

Giannoulis is undergoing MRI for an injury he sustained in the Atromitos game. Might miss the game.

Krmencik with his first goal for PAOK.

Nice goal.

1:1 with penalty by Schwab.

This Volos team one class better than Larisa and Atromitos. Will be very hard if not impossible to win this one now. And almost 0:2 now.

0:1

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Olympiakos Piraeus COMPETITION: Superleague 1 – Round 6 DATE: 13-January-2021 TIME: 19:30 EET (17:30 UTC, 11:30 CST, 04:30 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (28,703) REFEREES: Michael Fabri - Mauro Vivenzi, Cicero Alessandro Lo (Italy) TELEVISION: Novasports1 (Greece, Cyprus), NovasportsWorld (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), PAOK TV (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus) P.A.O.K. vs Olympiakos history: Superleague 2019-2020: 0:1 - Attendance: nf (PLAYOFFS) 2019-2020: 0:1 - Attendance: 26,377 2018-2019: 3:1 (Vieirinha, Biseswar, Akpom) - Attendance: 25,097 2017-2018: 0:3 - Attendance: 24,717 (Olympiakos won on forfeit as they got scared of flying paper and decided not to play the game) 2016-2017: 2:0 (Shakhov, Prijovic) - Attendance: 26,379 2015-2016: 0:2 - Attendance: 25,674 2014-2015: 0:0 - Attendance: 24,411 2013-2014: 2:1 (Athanasiadis, Tzavellas) - Attendance: 23,344 2012-2013: 1:1 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 23,023 2011-2012: 0:2 - Attendance: 18,299 2010-2011: 2:1 (Koutsianikoulis, Vitolo-p) - Attendance: 20,023 2009-2010: 1:0 (Muslimovic) - Attendance: 24,109 (PLAYOFFS) 2009-2010: 1:2 (Vieirinha) - Attendance: 24,109 2008-2009: 0:0 - Attendance: 22,214 2007-2008: 1:1 (Gonzales) - Attendance: 22,000 2006-2007: 2:3 (Mieciel, Torghelle) - Attendance: 23,483 2005-2006: 1:2 (Shikabala) - Attendance: 7,050 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2004-2005: 1:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 23,950 2003-2004: 0:2 - Attendance: no fans 2002-2003: 1:1 (Georgiadis-p) - Attendance: 22,296 2001-2002: 1:1 (Spasic) - Attendance: 22,200 2000-2001: 2:4 (Nalitzis, Frousos) - Attendance: 5,723 1999-2000: 0:2 - Attendance: 25,550 1998-1999: 1:2 (Frantzeskos) - Attendance: 25,858 (match abandoned in 83rd minute) 1997-1998: 2:1 (Franzeskos, Toursounidi) - Attendance: 26,471 1996-1997: 0:0 - Attendance: 35,850 1995-1996: 0:0 - Attendance: 6,699 (played at Trikala) 1994-1995: 2:0 (Bocziek 2, Kapetanopoulos) - Attendance: 26,404 1993-1994: 1:1 (Luhovy) - Attendance: 10,291 1992-1993: 0:0 - Attendance: 7,988 1991-1992: 1:2 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 8,577 (end of the 21 year Olympiakos winless streak at Toumba) 1990-1991: 3:2 (Skartados 2, Alexiou) - Attendance: 17,870 1989-1990: 4:1 (Skartados 2, Lagonidis, Alexoulis-p) - Attendance: 17,169 1988-1989: 1:0 (Karasavidis) - Attendance: 32,112 1987-1988: 6:1 (Borbokis 2, Bannon, Mavromatis, Siggas, Baniotis) - Attendance: 10,827 (played in Serres) 1986-1987: 4:1 (Skartados-p, Baniotis, Alexandridis, Papaioannou) - Attendance: 40,718 1985-1986: 1:0 (Orfanos) - Attendance: 24,970 1984-1985: 1:0 (Kostikos-p) - Attendance: 41,073 1983-1984: 4:0 (Dimopoulos, Koudas, Skartados, Kostikos) - Attendance: 13,138 (played in Serres) 1982-1983: 1:1 (Guerino) - Attendance: 33,334 1981-1982: 3:0 (Dimopoulos 2, own) - Attendance: 22,744 1980-1981: 1:0 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: 21,359 (Gyula Lorant, PAOK coach suffers heart attack and dies on the bench during this match) 1979-1980: 2:0 (Kostikos, Kermanidis) - Attendance: 36.016 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 2:0 (Orfanos 2) - Attendance: 25,362 1977-1978: 1:0 (Guerino) - Attendance: 30,477 1976-1977: 2:1 (Guerino, Kermanidis) - Attendance: 45,147 1975-1976: 3:1 (Kermanidis, Sarafis, Guerino) - Attendance: 33,378 1974-1975: 2:0 (Kermanidis, Terzanidis) - Attendance: 37,448 1973-1974: 1:0 (Sarafis) - Attendance: 42,976 1972-1973: 1:0 (Gounaris) - Attendance: 42,150 1971-1972: 4:3 (Sarafis 2, Apostolidis, Manzourakis) - Attendance: 21,161 1970-1971: 0:0 - Attendance: 25,462 (beginning of the 21 year Olympiakos winless streak at Toumba) 1969-1970: 1:2 (Afentoulidis-p) - Attendance: 35,740 1968-1969: 2:1 (Koudas 2) - Attendance: 26,745 1967-1968: 1:0 (Charalambidis) - Attendance: 26,446 1966-1967: 2:0 (Afentoulidis 2) - Attendance: 31,504 1965-1966: 3:2 (Koudas, Afentoulidis, Charalambidis) - Attendance: 22,736 1964-1965: 0:4 - Attendance: 17,309 1963-1964: 0:0 - Attendance: 18,884 1962-1963: 2:2 (Vasiliadios, Savvidis) - Attendance: 19,510 1961-1962: 0:1 - Attendance: 15.691 1960-1961: 0:2 - Attendance: 6,000 1959-1960: 2:0 (Leandros, Katikaridis) - Attendance: 14,050 Panhellenic Championship 1958-1959: 2:3 (Kalogiannis, Kiourtzis)- Attendance: 10,000 1957-1958: 1:0 (Leandros) - Attendance: ? 1956-1957: 2:1 (Kouiroukidis 2)- Attendance: 15,000 1955-1956: 1:2 (Gentzis)- Attendance: ? 1954-1955: 2:3 (Papadakis, Gentzis)- Attendance: ? 1953-1954: 1:2 (Gentzis)- Attendance: ? 1947-1948: 0:3 - Attendance: ? 1936-1937: 1:5 (Bostanzoglou) - Attendance: ? 1935-1936: 2:2 (?)- Attendance: ? 1931-1932: 0:2 - Attendance: ? 1930-1931: 3:0 (Papagiordanidis, Pazaroglou, Biblis)- Attendance: ? GAMES: 74 WINS: 34 TIES: 16 LOSSES: 24

According to some Italian fake news El Kaddouri decided not to sign an extension with PAOK and that will sign with Turkish side Rizaspor.