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Today's reports are that VAR might be available from Round 3 in Superleague1. Apparently some stadiums can;t handle the VAR technology.

9.679 today's count. Logically tomorrow we will pass the 10,000 mark.

Latest rumor is that Ferreira is trying to get João Palhinha from Bragga. The bad thing is that he is on loan there until 2020 from Sporting Lisbon.

In my opinion it will be a while before Wernbloom sees any playing action. It might be couple months from now and I would not be surprised if he does not see any action at all. El Kaddouri has been good so far in preseason and it appears that Ferreira likes him. I see him having a good season if he stays with PAOK, which I think will be the case. I think after Friday's game and before they return to Holland, Ferreira will cut the roster down to more manageable level. We will also see some transfer moves before the second part of preseason.

Final 2:2 Looks like the players can't easily adjust to the new system that the new coach wants them to play. Lack of good midfield players is showing in our play. Definitively need two solid signings in the midfield. Misic and Kace just don't cut it.

Played only 10 minutes. Penalty by Matos and 2:2

NAME: Augusto Soares Gomes DOUGLAS POSITION: Defensive Midfield JERSEY NUMBER: 33 BIRTHDAY: 13-January-1997 BIRTH PLACE: Rio de Janiro, Brazil HEIGHT: 1.73 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: Esporte Club Bahia, Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, Fluminense FC CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2023 SALARY: € per season

NAME: Miroslav STOCH POSITION: Left Winger JERSEY NUMBER: 99 BIRTHDAY: 19-October-1989 BIRTH PLACE: Nitra, Czechoslovakia HEIGHT: 1.67 m PAOK DEBUT: PAOK – Skoda Xanthi 3:0 (17-Aug-2013) NT DEBUT: 99 PREVIOUS TEAMS: SK Slavia Prague, Bursaspor KD, Al Ain FC, PAOK Thessaloniki, Fenerbahce Istanbul SK, FC Twente Enschede, Chelseas London FC, FC Nitra CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2022 SALARY: € 1,000,000 per season

2:1 half time.

Swiderski with the goal.

Decent stream: http://sportlemo.net/soccer/pec-zwolle-paok-thessaloniki-ss17276c

In my case our IP department will not be very happy if I start installing a VPN (or Opera browser) on the company computer. Looks like radio for me on this one. I wonder what company owns the rights to this game in the US, Canada, Netherlands and UK that prevents us from seeing it on PAOK TV. beIN Sports will show the game in some countries of Middle East and Africa. Also TV Sport in Norway. Also heard that the obnoxious Stavros Kolkas will do the commentary on the PAOK TV broadcast.

El Kaddouri who has been one of our best players so far in the preseason games is once again injured. He has not practiced with the team today and will probably miss tomorrow's game.

Remains to be seen as it will most likely depend on who we sign with for the rights in Greece. I still don't understand why they won't show the pre-season games outside of Greece, Cyprus and Albania.

This past Friday was the date when PAOK and ERT were supposed sign the 3-year deal. Instead ERT came out with an announcement that a decision will be made after the elections if the offers to PAOK and surprisingly AEX an d OFI will be accepted. AEX still has a 1 year left with NOVA, so their move to go to ERT has probably to do with the efforts of Olympiakos and their puppets to deny PAOK the ERT contract that would pay PAOK more than they make with their current deal. Considering that ERT will now be controlled by the new government I expect them to make things difficult for PAOK to sign with ERT. Let's not forget these are the same people that closed down ERT in 2013.

Next game is tomorrow against PEC Zwolle at 20:00 GR. Once again it will be televised by PAOK TV for people in Greece, Cyprus and Albania.

You might be right, but I don't see that happening. This (as well as the Zivkovic signing) was a strictly move to keep Lucescu happy. I see him being loaned left and right until his contract expires.

Now that was 800K wasted.

Email from all of us to PAOK front office is in order.

NOVA reportedly did not match ERT's offer of 7.5 mil Euro per season and the only thing remaining is for PAOK and ERT to sign the 3-year contract for the Superleague1 home games.

Canas reported got 1 mil for two years. Basically what PAOK was paying him.

First pre season game today against Alkmaar. PAOK TV will show it, but in Greece, Cyprus and Albania only.

Good choice with Ferreira IMHO. Predicted here first to borrow a line from the sleazy Greek press. At least we did not end up with someone like Ouzounidis. Would not mind having Garcia as assistant coach so the coaching staff would have some perspective on Greek soccer.

My hunch is that we will end up with a Portuguese coach. And I am not talking about Santos, although I would not say no to him. Listening to some radio stations where they are claiming that Lucescu was against all the transfers that Branco was bringing (Rodrigo, Douglas, Stoch), and that he was insisting on keeping Shakhov and Canas instead.

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