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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

Today's total is 2,868. On average 500 renewals per day.

Mystakidis, Chatziisaia, Deligiannidis, Mihojevic, Moulen and Kitsiou were not invited to the pre-season training and were told to start looking for teams to join. Meliopoulos signed for 4 years. Zivkovic will sign tomorrow, as will Mihaj (4 years) Tsousis, Diamantis Balogiannis loans were officially announced by NFC Volos The final sale price for Koulouris was 3.2 mil.

Updated information on the pre-season friendlies: July 3, 20:00 EEST: PAOK - AZ Alkmaar (WWNA) July 6, 16:00 EEST: PAOK - FC Nordsjælland (WWNA) July 9, 20:00 EEST: PAOK - PEC Zwolle (Sportpark Hulsterlanden, Nieuwleusen) July 12, 19:00 EEST: PAOK - Universitatea Cluj (Cluj Arena) July 20, TBA: PAOK - Anderlecht (TBA) July 24, TBA: PAOK - ?? (TBA) July 27, morning: PAOK - Al Tawon (TBA) July 27, afternoon: PAOK - Fortuna Sittard (TBA)

Good luck to him. Hopefully he can get us more money later on with the resale option.

I think it depends if his team releases him from his contract. If we can get him for free, I would get him right away. He will be a good backup for two positions (CB and LB). In my opinion he was solid when he got playing time last season.

2,314 tickets renewed so far in 4 days since they went on sale.

PAOK called the Caseres rumors fake news so he is not coming. Interesting fact is that the rumor was introduced by Olympiakos reporters and specifically the PAOK hater Nikolakopoulos. In other possible loans, Lyratzis and Mihojevic going to Xanthi.

Latest rumor is Santiago Kaseres from Villareal for one year loan to PAOK. Midfielder.

PAOK will sign Enea Mihai from Panaitolikos to a 4-year deal. He is a central defender. PAOK will also loan the youngster Michailidis (CB) to Panaitolikos for one year. Balogiannis, Tsaousis and Diamantios (all U19) have been officially loaned to NFC Volos.

You guys realize that any couch potato with a Facebook or Twitter account can create fake news. And that includes reporters in Greek sports media.

No it would not and that's why I expect 2 to 4 signings in the next 7 days. Additionally also announcement about players we already signed (Meliopoulos, Zivkovic, the Volos goalie). The "BAM is coming" is nothing but a creation by various media outlets that have nothing to write about.

The good old Golden Spike track meet in Ostrava. Used to attend this meet every year as a youngster when I was growing up in Ostrava. I have seen some very famous world athletes competing at this meet.

3.5 mil + 15% resale for Koulouris (Toulouse) 1 mil for El Kaddouri (Standard Liege) Both are apparently done deal. Very good deals, specially for Koulouris. Now if we can only find someone who will buy Warda.

In the unlikely scenario where Ludogorets, Astana and BATE get eliminated in QR1 we will move into the seeded position for the QR3 draw. The problem is that all 3 have to be eliminated, which I don't see happening.

That's a good start considering the 30% price increase.

I'd like Cluj to eliminate Astana. Who wants to travel all the way to Kazakhstan in the middle of the summer. Maybe only Henrique who might like to visit old friends. With all that in mind here is how things are shaping up: In QR3 we will be unseeded and are looking to face one of the following teams: Ajax (HOL) FC Copenhagen (DEN) or a team that eliminates them in QR2 Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) or a team that eliminates them in QR2 Celtic Glasgow (SCO) if hey eliminate Sarajevo (BIH) in QR1 or a team that eliminates them in QR2 BATE Borisov (BLR) if they eliminate Piast Gliwice (POL) in QR1 or a team that eliminates them in QR2 Astana (KAZ) if they eliminate CFR Cluj (ROM) in QR1 or a team that eliminates them in QR2

According to Serbian media rumors Canas apparently agreed with Red Star Belgrade.

Also add to the list the fact that Koulouris and his agent explicitly stated that their eventual goal is to leave PAOK for a foreign team. Now is a good time to sell him and we should take advantage of it.

SDNA (ie. Kolkas) is reporting that Ismael Silva is a done deal and is expected in Thessaloniki in few days to sign the contract.