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NAME: Amr WARDA POSITION: Attacking Midfield JERSEY NUMBER: 8 BIRTHDAY: 17-September-1993 BIRTH PLACE: Alexandria, Egypt HEIGHT: 1.76 m PAOK DEBUT: 16-Feb-2017 (PAOK – Schalke 04 0:3) NT DEBUT: 10-Nov-2015 (Zambia – Egypt 0:3) PREVIOUS TEAMS: NFC Volos, PAOK Thessaloniki, AE Larisa, PAOK Thessaloniki, Atromitos Athens, PAOK Thessaloniki, Atromitos Athens, PAOK Thessaloniki, Panaitolikos Agrinio, Al Ahly, El ittihad CONTRACT ENDS: 30-June-2022 SALARY: €

What a joke. They should just cancel the damn thing. At the very least they should have just done a free draw where everyone could have been drawn with anybody. None of this seeded/unseeded teams. Wouldn't it be nice to have AEK-Olympiakos or PAOK-Aris matchup right from the beginning?

Some fake news creators already came up with the scenario of swapping Colak and Esiti for Cimirot with Standard Liege. In real news, Warda is officially PAOK player. AGAIN!

What a joke. Just cancel the damn thing.

NAME: Michael KRMENČIK POSITION: Center Forward JERSEY NUMBER: 27 BIRTHDAY: 15-March-1993 BIRTH PLACE: Kraslice, Czech Republic HEIGHT: 1.91 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: 11-Nov-2016 (Czech Republic – Norway 2:1) PREVIOUS TEAMS: Club Brugge, Viktoria Plzen, Dukla Prague, Viktoria Plzen, Banik Ostrava, Vlasim, Viktoria Plzen, Zenit Caslav, Viktoria Plzen, Banik Sokolov, Viktoria Plzen CONTRACT ENDS: 30-June-2021 (on loan from Club Brugge) SALARY: € 1,000,000 (PAOK pays half his salary – € 500,000)

I watched the game as well. Lamia was greatly helped by the atrocious pitch conditions, but in the end they their win was deserved as O Aris could not score even though they dominated the game. The funniest part was the constant dives by o Aris players in the penalty box. What a joke. Guess they got their lessons from their masters.

Michael Krmencik transfer is official. On loan from Club Brugge for 6 months. We pay half his salary. Jersey number 27. Apparently there is no buyout option. Live announcement on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1519126141615955&ref=watch_permalink

VS MATCHUP: Atromitos Athens - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague1 – Round 15 DATE: 07-January-2021 TIME: 19:30 EET (17:30 UTC, 11:30 CST, 04:30 AEDT next day) CITY / STADIUM: Peristeri - Dimotiko Stadium (Capacity: 8,969) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports (Greece, Cyprus), NovasportsWorld (worldwide except Greece & Cyprus), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) Atromitos – PAOK History Superleague 2019-2020: 2:3 (Akpom, Matos, Crespo) - Attendance: 2,053 2018-2019: 1:1 (Crespo) - Attendance: 1,635 2017-2018: 0:2 (Campos, Crespo) - Attendance: 756 2016-2017: 0:2 (Biseswar, Koulouris) - Attendance: 726 2015-2016: 1:2 (Berbatov, Mak) - Attendance: 1,219 2014-2015: 1:1 (Pereyra) - Attendance: 1,417 (playoffs) 2014-2015: 4:0 - Attendance: 1,640 2013-2014: 1:2 (Salpiggidis, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 2,315 (playoffs) 2013-2014: 1:1 (Tzavellas) - Attendance: 2,894 2012-2013: 2:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 2,292 (playoffs) 2012-2013: 1:0 - Attendance: 3,910 2011-2012: 0:0 - Attendance: 3,274 2011-2012: 1:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 2,651 (playoffs) 2010-2011: 2:2 (Lino, El Zhar) - Attendance: no fans 2009-2010: 0:0 - Attendance: 4,020 2007-2008: 0:0 - Attendance: 2,770 2006-2007: 2:1 (Christodoulopoulos) - Attendance: 1,638 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2005-2006: 2:1 (Salpiggidis-p) - Attendance: 1,883 Between 1981 - 2005 Atromitos was playing in lower divisions before merging with Chalkydona in 2005. 1980-1981: 0:2 (Triantafyllidis, Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ?? Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1976-1977: 1:6 (Sarafis 2, Koudas 2, Kermanidis, Anastasiadis) - Attendance: 7,033 (Leoforos Alexandras) 1975-1976: 0:1 (Apostolidis) - Attendance: ?? 1974-1975: 0:1 (Aslanidis) - Attendance: ?? 1972-1973: 0:2 (Sarafis, Apostolidis) - Attendance: ?? 1960-1961: 1:1 (Salusto) - Attendance: 2,000 (Karaiskaki Stadium) GAMES: 24 WINS: 10 TIES: 9 LOSSES: 5

The game is likely to finish 2:0 than us scoring a goal.

Serves us right when you can't score against the worst team in superleague.

Looks like a nail biter until the end. We should really be having a comfortable lead by now. Might be one of those 0:0 affairs.

Lambrou is in the squad. Biseswar, Rodrigo and Lyratzis not included. Warda will play his last game for Volos tomorrow before he rejoins the team. Lineup I expect: ---------------- Paschalakis ---------------- Vieirinha - Ingason - Michailidis - Giannoulis ----- Augusto ------------- El Kaddouri ----- --------------- Schwab -------------------- Zivkovic ------- Swiderski ---------- Tzolis

Filip Krovinovic from West Bromwich Albion (on loan from Benfica) has been rumored for the midfield position. Also the Stafylidis name has popped out again. I really see no reason why.

There are no Thessaloniki media that support PAOK except maybe Forza or Radio Primo. Metropolis and Libero support PAOK on paper just to survive, but behind the scenes there is all kinds of backstabbing. I would not be surprised if they are indeed financed by Marinakis as is rumored.

Raptopoulos is a clown that will do anything for a quick buck. He will sell his own mother if he has. Same goes for Metropolis.

Can't be any worse than Colak. Let's see what he does. Buyout clause is reported to be 4 mil. Still need a creative midfielder in order for our forwards to actually score goals.

Biseswar is one of the best players that played for PAOK during the seasons we won titles. Renewing his contract for 3 years was a big mistake as he decided to sit on the contract. The time is ripe for him to move on. The problem is that nobody will pay money for him, which means we will end up paying the rest of his contract. The issue with midfielders is not if we need additions to the position. the problem is that we need a midfielder that will be fast and creative in order to help our transition to offense. If indeed there is interest in Esiti I would not mind us selling him. Also latest fake news is that Fenerbahce is close to getting Michailidis from PAOK, something that PAE PAOK denied. However if it is true that his agent is Paul ... (ROGON) than sooner or later he is history.

The problem is that you believe what Raptopoulos says. The biggest anti-PAOKtzis I ever heard. I would not be surprised if he is on the payroll of Karapapas. His goal is always to stir things up at PAOK.

Rumors/Fake News/Latest News: Ninua to Anorthosis on loan for 100K Esiti to leave. Possibly Turkey Biseswar told to find a team

I believe all our COVID tests were negative since the players returned to practices on Dec. 26.

Warda signed 1.5 year contract with PAOK. Hopefully he can concentrate on playing the game. If he does that he will be helpful addition to the team. However I do have the feeling that once again this will not end well. In other news, apparently we will get Douvikas in the summer of 2021. Supposedly part of the deal is that we loan Lambrou to Volos.

Micahilidis is not going anywhere. At least not anytime soon. Rumors/fake News are that Warda is coming back to PAOK in January. I don 't know why?

Looks like Lambrou is ending his loan at Twente early and will re-join PAOK in January.

VS MATCHUP: AE Larisa - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague – Round 14 DATE: 03-January-2021 TIME: 17:15 EET (15:15 UTC, 09:15 CST, 02:15 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Larisa – Alkazar Stadium (Capacity: 13,108) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports (Greece, Cyprus), NovaSportsWorld (wrldwide except Greece & Cyprus), Sport Plus (USA, Canada, Australia) Larisa – PAOK history: Superleague 2019-2020: 1:2 (Limnios, Augusto) - Attendance: 3,120 2018-2019: 1:1 (Pelkas) - Attendance: 4,082 2017-2018: 1:1 (Matos) - Attendance: 4,813 2016-2017: 0:2 (Mystakidis, Matos) - Attendance: 2,559 2011-2016: Larisa played in lower divisions 2010-2011: 1:2 (Contreras, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 12,829 (First game at AEL FC Arena) 2009-2010: 2:1 (Contreras) - Attendance: 6,848 2008-2009: 0:2 (Bakayoko, Conceicao) - Attendance: 4,669 (Playoffs) 2008-2009: 0:0 - Attendance: 4,611 2007-2008: 4:3 (Athanasiadis 2, Balafas) - Attendance: 6,428 2006-2007: 1:2 (Mieciel 2) - Attendance: 7,358 2005-2006: 2:1 (Mieciel) - Attendance: 8,906 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 1996-2005: Larisa played in lower divisions 1995-1996: 2:1 (Gioukoudis-p) - Attendance: 1,618 1994-1995: 0:2 (Anastasiadis, Kapetanopoulos) - Attendance: ? 1993-1994: 1:1 (Karasavvidis) - Attendance: ? 1992-1993: 2:1 (Djurdjevic) - Attendance: ? 1991-1992: 0:0 - Attendance: 9,624 1990-1991: 1:1 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 5,181 1989-1990: 0:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: ? 1988-1989: 2:1 (Giagkos) - Attendance: 10.986 1987-1988: 1:1 (Borbokis) - Attendance: 16,473 1986-1987: 2:1 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: 12,768 (Famous Blionas game) 1985-1986: 2:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: 4,120 1984-1985: 1:2 (Dimopoulos 2) - Attendance: 16,980 1983-1984: 1:1 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: 11,015 1982-1983: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1981-1982: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1980-1981: 0:0 - Attendance: 9,704 1979-1980: 0:3 (Koudas, Orfanos) - Attendance: 10,516 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 1:1 (Guerino) - Attendance: 2,000 1975-1978: Larisa played in lower divisions 1974-1975: 0:2 (Kermanidis, Guerino) - Attendance: 6,000 1973-1974: 1:1 (Aslanidis) - Attendance: ? 1964-1973: Larisa played in lower divisions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GAMES: 31 WINS: 10 TIES: 11 LOSSES: 10

Merry Christmas to everyone.