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The problem with PAOK is that we have a rich owner who has no clue on how to run a football club. Throwing money at the problem is not solving anything. After winning the cup everyone thought that we turned a new page, but the planning for the upcoming season was a disaster. I still don't understand why Ivic did not continue as the team coach after a successful season. Not only that, the owner by-passes the Technical Director and brings in a coach because his buddy Vukic recommended him. The results of the coaching fiasco is today's elimination from the European competition as well as the poor start in the Superleague against Levadeiakos. It will take some time to turn this around, but unless Savvidis changes the way he runs the team I don't see any improvement.

With today's elimination, PAOK just shot themselves in the foot. Next season we would have dropped the bad season when we were eliminated from Rapid Vienna from the coefficient standings and if we would have made the group stage we would have moved up in the UEFA standings.

We need organization first. The team is in disarray. And now no decent player will come to the team without European competition.

Too little, too late.

Kseftiles

Big mistake taking out Biseswar. Koulouris coming in.

Almost 3:0

2:0

I don't see this ending well.

That's going to be some 20 exciting minutes.

Wow. that's from offside position.

Common Mak. Got to be alert.

They really came out attacking.

NOVA and PAOK confirmed the TV deal. In the NOVA press release it states that they will televise all PAOK home games in Super league, preliminary rounds of UEFA competitions as well as friendly games. It also states that it includes international rights, which probably means that the SL home games will end up on Sport Plus.

Most likely.

The game will be televised on Sport Plus in US, Canada and Australia.

Hopefully we show up for this game.

It's not the end of the world, but if you want to win the title, these games are must win. I am afraid we are not ready to be title contenders yet.

Superlegue television rights for USA, Canada and Australia. Home games will be televised by following TV channels: ANTENNA SATELITE/PACIFIC AEK Athens AOK Kerkyra Levadeiakos Panathinaikos Athens Panaitolikos Agrinio Panionios Athens PAS Giannina Platanias Chania SPORT PLUS AE Larisa AO Xanthi Apollon Smyrnis Asteras Tripolis Atromitos Athens Olympiakos Piraeus PAS Lamia 1964 UNKNOWN PAOK Thessaloniki

Good luck to him. Scored some great and important goals for PAOK in the past. I think in the end he lost his focus and concentration. Hopefully this move will kick-start his football career. He will supposedly sign for two years and will be paid 650K per season. PAOK sets him free, but retains 35% of any resale value.

It's available through MySat: http://www.mysat.com.au/packages/greek-package/

The deal has not been announced yet, but I think in the end they will.

Superleague and NOVA agreed to a new 2-year deal for the TV rights in Greece. The collective agreement is worth 30 million Euro and includes the 15 out of the 16 teams. PAOK has opted out of the deal. Instead they signed an exclusive deal with NOVA for one season. It basically means that all the games will be available on NOVA. This coming weekend NOVA will televise all the games in Greece, Cyprius and Albania. The above deal does not include the international television rights. That is a separate deal, which has not been announced yet, but may be in place, since Sport Plus is scheduled to televise 4 games in the USA, Canada and Australia this weekend. See schedules here: https://www.facebook.com/Greeksoccerontv/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

I am really curious how Lucescu will handle the absences of Matos and Pelkas. On paper it should not be hard to beat Levadeiakos. I am sure they will play like the Swedes with a parked bus. Hopefully we score one early and the rest will be history.

Not necessarily. The deal is exclusive between PAOK and NOVA and is not part of the Superleague collective agreement. It's only for one year (the SL-NOVA deal is for two). More importantly, as far as I know, the deal is only the TV rights in Greece. The international rights deal is separate and has not been announced by Superleague yet. It's quite possible that PAOK might opt out of the international deal (as they did for the past two seasons) and present their games on PAOK TV. We shall see.