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Latest reports are that the Arabs are giving him $4 mil per season.

Like I said, I think the reason he left is not the money from Saudi Arabia. There is more to it than that. If I was Ivan I would assign Pablo Garcia as interim coach to start the training in Holland and then make him assistant coach when we find Lucescu's replacement. The problem is that Lucescu's full team of assistants are leaving as well (I heard even Konstantinidis). It will be tough to find replacements in the next 2 days. This was big "p*****a" by Lucescu. He should have left in May after winning the double.

Al Hilal offered him a contract for 7 mil. They will also pay PAOK 2 mil due to the buyout clause in his contract. This came at the worst possible time. Only two days before travelling to Holland for training. I am assuming that Garcia will take the team to Holland before a new coach is found. I believe there is more to this than the fabulous contract he got from Saudi Arabia. Can you imagine the two players coming tonight to Thessaloniki? They got on a plane knowing that Lucescu was the coach, and when they get to Thessaloniki they will find no coach. And how about the players that came to PAOK only because of Lucescu (Zivkovic, Meliopoulos)?

Razvan Lucescu is history. Today he informed Ivan Savvidis that he accepted a coaching position in Saudi Arabia. PAOK is looking for a new coach.

Apparently Lyratzis and Mystakidis will be loaned to Volos as well.

Also as far as Stoch is concerned, I was reading few Czech sites today, and once again found out why Greek media can't be trusted. Every Greek site was saying that we are just going to pay the 1.5 mil buyout option to Slavia. Reading the Czech media I found out that Stoch does not have a buy out clause in his contract and the transfer happening mostly depends on the wishes of the player and if he wants to move on. The same source (GM of Slavia) also said that the two teams are talking about the transfer and that price is closer to 1 mil, which is almost the same as Slavia paid Fenerbahce for the player.

Nobody is saying that Stoch is a saint, but from what I heard he got the "bad reputation" from one incident at Markiz, when somebody saw him throwing up in the bathroom and then that person was spreading what he saw on the various radio shows (Raptopoulos, etc.), and in the process failing to also disclose that it was Stoch's birthday when the incident took place and that it was at a time when he did not have team obligations. It would be different if he was at bars everyday late night boozing it up, which I doubt was the case.

The other 3 in the picture are the various agents that will get piece of the pie from the transfer fees. That's why they are all smiling.

This time it's for real.

If the rumored allegations are true, than he will have a tough time in jail.

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This guy will one day end up in jail. I think very soon we will be discussing Warda in the ex-PAOK Players section.

Henrique is probably history if Stoch comes. Apparently Henrique's agent is due in Thessaloniki to talk about contract extension, which would mean yet another loan. I like Stoch too and offensively he will help, but our left side will suffer defensively if we are going to play with Gianoulis and Stoch on that side. Rumors are we are buying Stoch for 1.5 mil from Slavia and are signing him to a 3-year contract at 1 mil per season. Also news that Augusto had a very serious disease couple years ago. Hopefully the PAOK doctors know what they are doing.

NAME: Zivko ZIVKOVIC POSITION: Goaltender JERSEY NUMBER: 88 BIRTHDAY: 14-April-1989 BIRTH PLACE: Uzice, Yugoslavia HEIGHT: 1.94 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: AO Xanthi, FK Teleoptik Zemun, FK Metalec Gorniji Milanovac, FK Teleoptik Zemun, FK Partizan Belgrade CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2022 SALARY: € per season

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Looks like we got fed up with Silva and his numerous agents demanding cuts from the deal. Latest rumor is that we closed the Douglas Augusto Soares Gomes deal and expect the player in Thessaloniki to sign. Also the earlier rumors/fake news had us paying 5 mil for him. Now the figures are around 2.5 mil, which once a gain proves that the Greek sports journalists have no clue what they are talking about.

NAME: Dimitris MELIOPOULOS POSITION: Defensive Midfield JERSEY NUMBER: 14 BIRTHDAY: 22-March-2000 BIRTH PLACE: Vergina, Greece HEIGHT: 1.84 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: AO Xanthi, PAOK Koulouras CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2023 SALARY: € 150,000 per season (15% increase each season) - € 5,000,000 buyout option Purchase price € 800,000

NAME: Enea MIHAJ POSITION: Center Back JERSEY NUMBER: 6 BIRTHDAY: 05-July-1998 BIRTH PLACE: Rhodos, Greece HEIGHT: 1.86 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: Scotland - Albania 0:2 (10-Sep-2018) PREVIOUS TEAMS: Panaitolikos Agrinio, Diagoras Rhodos CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2023 SALARY: € 150,000 per season (15% increase each season) - € 7,000,000 buyout option Purchase price € 600,000

NAME: Nikolaos MELISSAS POSITION: Goaltender JERSEY NUMBER: - BIRTHDAY: 24-February-1993 BIRTH PLACE: Thessaloniki, Greece HEIGHT: 1.93 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: PAS Lamia, PAOK Thessaloniki, AE Sparti, Iraklis Psachna, Fokokos, PAOK Thessaloniki CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2022 SALARY: € 100,000 per season (15% increase each season)

NAME: Lazaros LAMBROU POSITION: Left Winger JERSEY NUMBER: 11 BIRTHDAY: 19-Dec-1997 BIRTH PLACE: Katerini, Greece HEIGHT: 1.76 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: Fortuna Sittard, Panionios Athens, AEP Iraklis, Panathinaikos U20, AE Pontion Katerini CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2023 SALARY: € 250,000 per season (15% increase each season) - € 10,000,000 buyout option

Brazilian rumors have PAOK offering 5 mil for Douglas Augusto Soares Gomes from Corinthians. Could be fake news in order to force Silva to stop playing games.

Rumors are that ERT has agreed to offer a TV contract to PAOK for their Superleague1 home games worth 7.5 million Euro per season. The deal would be for 3 season's. PAOK's contract with NOVA ended after last season, but NOVA has the option to match any offer that PAOK receives. Let's hope the rumor is true and we will be able to stream PAOK's games through ERT's web streaming. Speaking of Superleague1 TV contracts for 2019-2020 season here is the current situation: NOVA: AEK, AE Larisa, Asteras Tripolis, Olympiakos, Panionios ERT: Aris, Atromitos, Lamia, Panathinaikos, Panaitolikos, Xanthis CURRENTLY WITHOUT CONTRACT: PAOK, NFC Volos, OFI

Sounds unlikely. More likely scenario is the fact that we don't have enough defensive mids to even conduct proper training sessions.

The confirmed players that will start the pre-training with the team: GOALTENDERS Melissas Papadopoulos Talichmanidis Paschalakis (July 1) Zivkovic DEFENSE Varela Crespo Michailidis Matos Rodrigo Giannoulis Ingason (July 1) Mihaj Deligiannidis DEFENSIVE MIDFIELD Wernbloom Misic Tsiggaras Kace (July 1) Meliopoulos OFFENSIVE MIDFIELD Jaba Lambrou Biseswar Henrique Limnios (July 1) Pelkas (July 1) El Kaddouri Gaitanidis Chatzisavvas OFFENSE Akpom Swiderski (July 15) Markovski ABSENT DUE TO INJURIES Vieirinha Mauricio

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