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Today's season ticket totals: 10,736 (7,775 renewals + 2,961 new) Apparently team officials want to set a cut-off limit at 21,000 season tickets.

Apparently Olympiakos now wants Conde. Could be a trick by Giannina to get the most for the player. Pouggouras is supposedly a free transfer since his contract expires next year. Siabanis has the same contract, but I don't see PAOK giving him out for free. His contract will be extended. As for loaning him, there are better teams that we can find for him than the backstabbers. As it is we should be looking to unload Glykos instead of Siabanis.

If we eliminate Basel not only do we continue our CL group stage dream, we are also guaranteed direct qualification to Europa League group stage.

Exactly and that's why I think it will be very tough to make the group stage, and I think team officials see it this way as well. That's why they are not going crazy about the transfers. If we get lucky and eliminate Basel, then we will be seeded in 3rd qualifying round. There we might have a chance against the likes of Fenerbahce, Spartak Moscow , Standard Liege or Slavia Prague. However I think it will be tough in the playoff round.

Thursday is the deadline for PAOK to submit the player list to UEFA for the games against Basel.

Jairo officially signed a 2+1 contract with Hajduk Split. One less player we will be talking about every transfer period from now on. PAOK officially announced the Henrique loan to Astana. Full salary paid by Astana and there is allegedly 5 mil buyout option. By next season I think Henrique will meet the same fate as Jairo and Pereyra.

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I am sure we will fill those positions eventually during this transfer period. It quite obvious that any decent player (Werbloom, etc.) will wait until mid-August to decide their next team. Throw in the fact that many players don't care to come and play in the s%$#! league that is Superleague and you can see why is it so hard to bring in top players.

Additional friendly has been scheduled for Monday July 16. it will be against Dutch Eredivisie team De Graafschap at 15:30 EEST. I expect the 2nd string players to get playing time in that one.

Did you guys consider the option that Lucescu never wanted Khacheridi transfer to happen? Khacheridi has been Ivan's wet dream for years due to Pontian roots. For me that's one of the wrong reasons to be signing players. And Ivan made several such transfers in the past. That's why I think he will stick with the proven Varela/Crespo duo for the two important games.

Henrique is slowly becoming the next Jairo. Unfortunately. Pelkas has been very disappointing so far this pre-season. Also I would not expect any transfer acquisitions until the games with Basel are done.

Rey played very well today and made several good saves. Too bad we gave up the cheap goal at the end. Next game on Sunday at 5:30 AM my time against Royal Antwerp. Not sure I will be getting up so early for that one.

Current Cup Holder: PAOK Thessaloniki EPO has announce the new structure for the 2018-2019 Greek Cup competition. 85 teams will take part: 53 Amateur Cup Winners 16 Football League teams 16 Superleague teams Superleague teams will not enter the competition until Stage 4 which is the group stage. Final will take place on May 18, 2019 at OAKA Stadium Here are the details: Entry fees: Superleague teams (€ 5,000), Football League teams (€ 3,000), Amateur Teams (€ 300) Round 1 The 53 Amateur Cup winners will take part in this round. 1 team will receve a bye into the next round. The remaining 52 teams will be drawn separated into 4 regional groups. Draw will be made to create 26 matchups, which will consist of a single leg. The winners + the team receiving the bye will qualify to Round 2 (27 teams in total) Round 2 The 27 amateur teams that qualified from Round 1 will take part in this round 5 teams will receive a bye into the next round. The remaining 22 teams will be split into 2 regional groups (North & South) of 11 teams each. Draw will be made to create 11 matchups, which will consist of a single leg. The winners + the 5 teams receiving the bye will qualify to Round 3 (16 teams in total). Round 3 The 16 amateur teams that qualified from Round 2 and the 16 Football League teams will take part in this round. The Football League teams will be seeded and will be drawn against the 16 amateur teams. The amateur teams will be the home team in this one leg matchup. The 16 winners will qualify to next stage. Round 4 The Group Stage of the competition. The winners of the Round 3 (16 t eams) plus the Superleague teams (16 teams) will form 8 groups of 8. Each group will consist of 2 Superleague teams and 2 teams that qualified from Round 3. At this stage each team will play three games. The Superleague teams will play two away games and 1 home game. The group draw will consist of 8 seeded team that finished 1-8 in last season's Superleague, the remaining 8 Superleague teams, Football League teams, and the remaining amateur teams that qualified. The top 2 teams from each group will qualify to Round 5. Round 5 The 16 teams that qualify from Round 4 will take part in this round. The group winners will be seeded in the draw. The draw will produce 8 matchups which will consist of 2 legs. The unseeded teams will play their home game first. Winners of each matchup qualify to Round 6. Round 6 (Quarterfinals) The 8 winners from Round 5 will take part in this round. The draw will produce 4 matchups and will consist of 2 legs. There will be no seeding in this round. Round 7 (Semifinals) The draw will produce 2 matchups and will consist of 2 legs. Round 8 (Final) The Final will take place on May 18, 2018 at OAKA Stadium in Athens. Full document: https://www.epo.gr/Default.aspx?a_id=22584

Mystakidis got out at 46th minute and came back in in the 64th minute.

85 teams will take part in next Greek Cup (2018-2019): 53 Amateur Cup Winners 16 Football League teams 16 Superleague teams Superleague teams will not enter the competition until Stage 4 which is the group stage. EPO just can't bring itself to abolish this stupid part of the Greek Cup. Final will take place on May 18, 2019 at OAKA Stadium

Today's count: 6,211 (4,541 renewals, 1,670 new) I see us beating the 15,000 mark this year.

Fixture list? They don't even know how many teams will play in the league next season and you expect a fixture list? Even the start of the 2018-19 season is not set in stone yet.

That's assuming we are allowed to have fans at our games ...

Canas was pretty good today. I think he will go with the proven Mauricio - Canas duo in the Basel games. Unfortunately I see Henrique not making the team.

2:1 final score. Massive lineup changes in the 72nd minute. Henrique missed a sure goal in 92nd minute.

Forgot to mention. The games is streamed on Steaua's youtube channel:

What a lame excuse by PAE PAOK. Novasport has no problem televising the game and since PAOK TV just uses their feed I see no reason why PAOK TV is not streaming the game. Anyway 2:0 in the 30th minute. 5. Vieirnha 10. El Kaddouri BTW Vierinha back to wearing no. 20 instead of last season's 88. Additionaly it appears that he's back on the Thessaloniki diet of gyros and souvlakia as he seems to have put on some wieght.

They haven't even scratched the surface with the gangster.

Looks like there were changes to our pre-season friendlies schedule. Our new confirmed friendlies for the second half of pre-seson training are: 09-July, 20:00 EEST: PAOK - Steaua Bukurest (Romania) - at Apeldron12-July, 19:00 EEST: PAOK - KAA Gent (Belgium) - at Marasingel15-July, 13:30 EEST: PAOK - Royal Antwerp (Belgium) - at Halderberge (early kick-off due to WC Final later in the day) There is a possibility that we will also play a game on July 16. Previously we were scheduled to play Al Taawoun on that day.

How is Vermont Yianko? One of only 5 US states that I have not visited yet. As for the friendlies they mean nothing. The only games that count will be played on July 24 and August 1.