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Pouggouras is close to signing with Panathinaikos on free transfer. As a condition for giving him a release from contract, PAOK will retain 40% resale clause.

Whoever administered that medical test should be hired by PAOK. Maybe we would have been saved from Leveque if he was on board.

If some of our players were more focused, we could have scored more goals. Some players tried to do way too much instead of just passing the ball to an open player. Hopefully Biseswar will be ready by next week. He would have made an impact today.

BTW this was our 11th game in CL qualifying and this was our first ever win (1 win, 5 ties, 5 losses)

£540k according to Transfermarket.

VS MATCHUP: FC Basel - PAOK Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Champions League – Qualifying Group 2- Leg 2 DATE: 01-Aug-2018 TIME: 21:00 EEST (18:00 GMT, 12:00 CDT, 03:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Basel - St, Jakob Park (38,512) REFEREES: Paolo Valeri - Alessandro Gialatrini, Alberto Tegoni (Italy) TELEVISION: Epsilon TV (Greece), Cytavision Sport 1 (Cyprus), Sportklub 3 (Serbia), Teleclub Sport (Switzerland, Germany) PAOK’s History against teams from Switzerland in European Competitions 2018-2019: PAOK – FC Basel 2:1 (Canas, Prijovic) – Att: -- – Champions League (Qualifying Round 2, Leg 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2002-2003: PAOK – Grasshopers Zurich 2:1 (Hasiotis, Giasemis) – Att: 9,577 – UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 1) 2002-2003: Grasshopers Zurich - PAOK 1:1 (Markos) – Att: 6,000 - UEFA Cup (Round 2, Leg 2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1978-1979: PAOK – Servette Geneva 2:0 (Kermanidis, Sarafis) – Att: 35,000 - Cup Winners Cup (Round 1, Leg 1) 1978-1979: Servette Geneva – PAOK 4:0 – Att: 20,000 - Cup Winners Cup (Round 1, Leg 2) GAMES: 5 WINS: 3 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 1

Too bad. I would have taken a 1:0 scoreline instead of this.As long as we score in Basel we should be ok.

Bad goal. Crespo's fault on that one.

Warda in for Prijo.

has not done anything all game but scores an important goal. Classic Prijo Too bad 2:1

Prijo 2:0

Pelkas very poor today.

Kaddouri to come in for Jaba.

so close for 2:0

I switched to Bleacher Report until PAOKTV is fixed. Seems to be fixed now.

Very lucky on that one. Could have been 1:1.

What a goal by Canas. Unbelievable

Canas with a great chance to open the score.

Until recently transfermarket had him on our squad. Since last week he is on the Beitar list, which I would assume that the deal has been completed. Not only that he has also played in 2 Europa League games for Beitar this season.

Bleacher Report. com has the game live and for free.

Lineup and subs: Interesting to see Limnios and Jaba in the same lineup. Hope it doesn't backfire on Lucescu.

Really doubt there will be any friendlies. As it is Nations League games are supposed to be replacing friendlies anyway.

To summarize today's draws. If we eliminate Basel we will play Spartak Moscow in Qualifying Round 3 of Champions League. First game at Toumba on August 7/8. Return game in Moscow on August 14. If we lose to Basel we will play the winner of Vitesse Arnheim - Viirtorul Constanta. First game away on August 9. return game at Toumba on August 116. Unfortunately the two draws today were the worst for PAOK. Spartak Moscow is a tough team and probably the strongest of the four available opponents. Would have preferred Slavia Prague. As for the Europa League draw we were unlucky as well, as we will most likely once again face a Dutch team. It is almost impossible for us (given the past history) to eliminate Dutch teams in European competitions. For that reason, it is quite important to eliminate Basel, so we can be guaranteed the Europa League group stage.

Losing Campos will hurt us. Specially early in the season when we did not have time to replace him. I don't think Limnios is ready for this challenge. I think we'll see Jaba in the 2nd half. Main thing is not to concede a goal, even if the game ends just 0:0. Pash as for Mystakidis, I am afraid his days at PAOK are numbered.

There were people in the dressing room that did not want Olsen at PAOK and they made things very unfriendly for him. All I have to mention is the clique that was pretty much dissolved when Tzavellas was given the boot. The clique wanted a certain goalie to be no. 1. Sadly that goalie is still on the team. Anyway if Olsen can bring money to the team it will be great. Rodrigues could be next to bring us cash. We already made over 1 mil from sales this transfer period. Sabo, Leovac (300K each), Campos (600K). I am sure we got some money from the Jairo as well.