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Both men's and women's handball championships have been suspended and the teams that were in the 1st place in the table were declared as champions for the 2019-2020 season, which makes PAOK's Women's Handball team the Champions of Greece.

AEK will finish second. Specially if they get their wish and foreign refs and VAR are not used during the playoffs.

The only reason the season is continuing is so Olympiakos can add another questionable title, but mainly for AEK to take the 2nd place and the CL spot for next season. They could care less for relegation/promotion teams.

Our yellow friends got a transfer ban for the next two transfer periods from FIFA. And of course they are blaming Ivan Savvidis and PAOK for that according to a laughable Super3 press release.

I watched the two games against Arsenal in 1997 recently. Much better outcome.

Rumors surfaced that Marseille is willing to pay 7 mil for Giannoulis.

Don't think so. Kyriakos Kyriakou said PAOK TV will still be around even if PAOK enters collective TV deal. It will just be like in the past. Showing the games outside of Greece and presenting us with videos from training, etc.

I voted for Kresic and Matos respectively.

Olympiakos has officially asked CAS to rule on relegating PAOK and Xanthi from Superleague.

Looks like the Saudi team we sold Prijovic is late paying PAOK the 10 mil transfer. Rumors say we already sent the matter to FIFA. Wonder if we can claim the player again if they refuse to pay the remaining 3.5 mil that they still owe us.

Let's get Adolf's perspective on the matter:

Ha Ha Ha. Good joke.

I have heard of it but did not see it. I'll give it a try.

Rumors (possibly fake news) are that Besiktas is planning on making a 7 mil Euro offer for Giannoulis.

Shelter in place for Illinois is in effect until April 30. That means we are staying home at least until then. I am able to work from home so that is good. Now that the weather is getting better it would be nice if they started relaxing the order to stay home. The longer it takes, more businesses will be hit hard. I expect a lot of local restaurants will be closing for good once this is all done. Thankfully my internet service at home is holding up quite well. Between my work, my son's university online studies, and constant Netflix streaming we sure are using a lot of data. I was running out of things to watch on TV, but this week Netflix started showing the Michael Jordan series, so I should be good for a while. It would be nice if we had some live sporting events to watch as well.

They are so predictable. This whole thing was planned for at least couple of years. All they needed first was to have Mitsotakis elected as the prime minister. The rest was easy. They already asked EPO to strip our titles and have Savvidis banned from running PAOK. Not only that they also said that they will also pursue the matter in civil courts as well as CAS in order to apply the original EEA decision which was relegation for PAOK and Xanthi. Unless the government in Greece changes in the very near future, I expect that we are going to be stripped of the titles and also relegated. And I am not joking. Their (Marinakis, Mitsotakis, Geoffrey R. Pyatt) goal is to run Savvidis out of Greece and they will use any means possible.

In Greece you can't win a case in court even if you have the best lawyers where things are fixed. The case went through 3 stages of legal proceedings and was never tried. CAS is now our only option, but I think they will not even take on the case. Mark my words. Olympiakos will now demand that we are stripped of the double titles from last season.

Cimirot - Misic would be nice pairing in the PAOK lineup. If he comes in as free transfer it will be a good addition. Recently I read if UEFA does not relax the FFP rules, than PAOK needs to somehow create a 12 million surplus. This would mostly involve sale of players. I can't see us spending outrageous amounts of money for highly priced players .

Happy Birthday PAOK

Dropped? What was he before? According to the article his worth rose by 100 million dollars since the last list. Wonder where Marinakis and Melissanidis stand? Even more interesting would be to see where Karypidis ranks.

There was a lot of Skyping (or Zooming) by Ivan Savvidis over the weekend about the next season. George Savvidis was placed in charge of transfers by his father, so it looks like Branco will be history after his contract with the team expires in June. Also the elder Savvidis announced his support for Ferreira and mentioned plans for new training facilities. Finally he instructed his front office to bring the budget under control for the upcoming season.

Sixteen teams and no playoffs is a good format. Otherwise make it 12 teams with four rounds of football. Stop this playoff nonsense.

I know what he said, but that might have been just a convenient excuse. I think here is more to the story than both sides are letting out. The relationship between him and George Savvidis might also influenced his decision. In any case Shakhov did not want to stay on the team as he wanted to play in Italy and Canas did not perform as in previous seasons, so I am not sure how helpful they would have been in the CL campaign.

NOVA should not even be in the business televising football games given their clear affiliation with certain teams and biased coverage. They should not be the ones placing demands on how to run the league.

I really doubt Canas and Shakhov were the real reasons why he left. We will never find the real reason just like we didn't when Ivic left. Deep down I even think he left because he could not repeat what he had accomplished the past two seasons with the team: winning two straight doubles. CL group stage was really unattainable. Not with players such as Canas and Shakhov, so that's why I think there were other issues behind his decision. And him quitting just two days before the pre-season training put the whole season in jeopardy.