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PAOK players in today's NT games:

After 25 minutes of play Greece is losing 4:0. Should have never traveled to Croatia.

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Benfica ended winning the game 2:1. One of their players got a red card (and this was a friendly).

Just found out Rebbe's press conference was postponed until next week.

Just because he is dead does not make him less of a clown. He chose to be used as a puppet in the theater that is Greek football. I'll admit he was a fairly good goalkeeper. Like I said in my initial post RIP.

I noticed last weekend that Sport Plus channel on Dish was showing a live feed of the Panathinaikos TV telecast of the Panathinaikos friendly against Lamia. let's see if they will do the same on Saturday when Panathinaikos plays a friendly with PAOK.

Benfica is right now playing a friendly against Ferreira's old team Bragga. At half time Bragga is winning 1:0.

The 3,000 Euro up front cost mentions might be for the initial set up of PAOK TV years back when it was just a Youtube channel. As for the 200,000 subscribers, I am sure that means individual subscriptions to every possible package variation (annual subs, single game subs, commercial subs, etc.). It sure would have been nice if we had 200K subs for the annual 69.99 Euro package. We will probably never find out the real subscription numbers. Only to PAE PAOK shareholders might that information be available during the shareholders meetings.

It was going to be either today or tomorrow. Since it did not happen today it should be tomorrow. Also it will not be a live press conference. PAE PAOK asked reporters to send in questions, which will be answered by Rebbe on line.

I never bitch and whine about the country coefficient. The only coefficient I bitch about is PAOK's coefficient which determines if we will be seeded in the draws.

Superleague has been postponed once again, because EPO decided to play the cup final on Sep. 12. Why do I have a feeling we won't see the start of the Supeleague for a while.

We don't want any clubs in the group stage (except PAOK). We want 100% of the market pool.

Looks like there is also a corona virus infection to one of our players/staff member, who will not travel with the team to Croatia and San Marino.

UEFA created Nations League mainly to replace the useless friendly games that used to be played. as a result it appears that our coach is using these games to rebuild the national team. That is the reason for the youngsters that he is calling up. At the same time he cleans house of the saboteurs that used to cause trouble. His goal is to have a solid team to enter the WC qualifying campaign.

Their stadium is not ready to host European games apparently. They selected OAKA for their UEFA games.

Is 4th time the charm?

VS MATCHUP: PAOK Thessaloniki – SL Benfica Lisbon COMPETITION: Champions League – Qualifying Round 3 DATE: 15-September-2020 TIME: 21:00 EEST (18:00 GMT, 13:00 CDT, 04:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (28,703) REFEREES: Felix Brych - Mark Borsch, Stefan Lupp (Germany) TELEVISION: OPEN Beyond TV, Noivasports 1 (Greece) PAOK’s History against teams from Portugal in European Competitions 2018-2019: PAOK – Benfica Lisbon 1:4 – (Prijovic) - Att: 26,725 - Champions League (Qualifying Round 4, Leg 2) 2018-2019: Benfica Lisbon – PAOK 1:1 – (Warda) - Att: 44,084 – Champions League (Qualifying Round 4, Leg 1) 2013-2014: Benfica Lisbon – PAOK 3:0 – Att: 31,058 – Europa League (Round of 32, Leg 2) 2013-2014: PAOK – Benfica Lisbon 0:1 – Att: 24,670 - Europa League (Round of 32, Leg 1) 2002-2003: PAOK – Leixoes SC 4:1 (Okkas 2, Salpiggidis, Koutsopoulos)) – Att: 5,960 – UEFA Cup (Round 1, Leg 2) 2002-2003: Leixoes SC - PAOK 2:1 - (Kukielka) – Att: 4,000 - UEFA Cup (Round 1, Leg 1) 1999-2000: Benfica Lisbon – PAOK 1:2 (4:1 penalty kicks) – (Maragos, Sabry) - Att: 28,417 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 1) 1999-2000: PAOK – Benfica Lisbon 1:2 – (Frantzeskos) - Att: 28,008 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 1) GAMES: 8 WINS: 2 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 5

Worst possible draw. We are not qualifying to the next round. Dinamo Kiev would have been better, and Gent the best just to have a better chance to get our hands on the cool 5 mil. I think we are going to this game with much weakened squad compared to last years matchup against Ajax. Youth enthusiasm can only get you so far. I think we should just be preparing for the group stage of Europa League and hope for the best.

Why am I not surprised. This covid thing can be used to get out of many unpleasant situations.

It's up to him to grab the chance given to him. If he can't do it now it's time to move on.

No surprise at all. It worked the first time around. Proven method.

Some reports say Matos's father is very sick and that is the reason he went to Brazil. However following the recent developments who knows what the real issue is.

Did some more research on the subject ... For reaching the EL group stage we are getting the following: € 2,920,000 - for making the group stage of EL € 2,777,130 - coefficient payment (based on 5-year coefficient in UEFA standings) € 2,000,000 (minimum) - 5,692,130 (maximum) - market pool (based on how many Greek teams make the group stage So far we have € 7,697,130 guaranteed If we qualify to the CL playoff round (and lose) we will receive an additional € 5,000,000 In group stage we will also receive € 570,000 for each win and € 190,000 for each tie. If we win the group we will get extra € 1,000,000. If we finish 2nd we will get € 500,000 If by any miracle we make the CL group stage we will make a lot of money. We will revisit this if it happens.

Reports are that if Paschalakis leaves, Rebbe already has a goaltender lined up. I have a feeling Rey will also leave (loan/free). There is a reason why he did not get any playing time in the two friendlies.