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The game will be televised on PAOK TV for those outside of Greece.

Warda is very close to being loaned to Saudi side Al Fateh. What a waste of a transfer this was.

NOVA without Superleague is almost certainly going bankrupt. They lost all the TV rights to any meaningful leagues out there to COSMOTE. NOVA is basically telling SL to cut the existing agreement (good until 2019) by 18%. Not only that they dictate on how they want the league to be run. If SL owners had any balls they would tell NOVA to take a hike. The problem is that the 12 "small" teams will not make it without any TV revenue.

Well Ivan Savvidis would have to first buy Malamatina and Mythos before that happens.

Looking forward to it.

Filippidis is officially out of the World Championships due to his injury. On top of that he is suing people running OAKA Stadium (ie the government) for 480K Euro for negligence causing his injury.

6,170 season tickets sold so far. Add to it 1,000 given out to unemployed PAOK fans by George Savvidis.

I doubt we will go for a CF. I think Mak will be Prijovic's offensive partner if Stanojevic ever decides to go back to the 4-4-2 formation. Klaus will warm up the bench until his contract expires. Jairo and Koulouris will be loaned/released. I think we will get two additional players. One high quality CB and a midfielder that transition the game from defense to offense. Right now with all the defensive minded midfielders on our roster there is quite a void there. We can't really rely on Biseswar and Pelkas to come to come back to retrieve balls and start organizing offense.

Friday's Superleague meeting failed to resolve any outstanding issues concerning the start of the season as well as TV revenue. They set another meeting on Thursday saying that final decisions will be taken at that time. Why don't I believe a single word they say. I think it's pretty safe to say that Superleague will not start on August 19 as scheduled.

They also rested 8 players so they can be ready for the game at Toumba.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - FK Olimpik Donetsk COMPETITION: Europa League - Qualifying Round 3 - Leg 2 DATE: 03-August-2017 TIME: 21:00 EEST (18:00 GMT, 13:00 CDT, 04:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki – Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: Ivaylo Stoyanov - Ivo Kolev, Veselin Dobriyanov (Bulgaria) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport TV1 (Greece) Our European history against teams from Ukraine: 2017-2018: Olimpik Donetsk - PAOK FC 1:1 (Henrique) - Attendance: ? (Europa League – Qualifying Round 3 – Leg 1) 2005-2006: PAOK FC – Metallurgh Donetsk 1:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 7,963 (UEFA Cup – Round 1 – Leg 1) 2005-2006: Metallurgh Donetsk - PAOK FC 2:2 ( Salpiggidis, Konstantinidis) - Attendance: ? (UEFA Cup – Round 1 – Leg 2) 2005-2006: Shakhtar Donetsk - PAOK FC 1:0 - Attendance: ? (UEFA Cup – Group Stage - Round 1) 2011-2012: PAOK FC – Karpaty Lviv 2:0 (Athanasiadis, Lino) - Attendance: 21,424 (Europa League – Qualifying Round 4 – Leg 1) 2011-2012: Karpaty Lviv - PAOK FC 1:1 (Balafas) - Attendance: 15,000 (Europa League – Qualifying Round 4 – Leg 2) 2013-2014: PAOK FC – Metalist Kharkiv 0:2 - Attendance: no fans (Champions League – Qualifying Round 3 – Leg 1) 2013-2014: Metalist Kharkiv - PAOK FC 1:1 (Necid) - Attendance: 39,286 (Champions League – Qualifying Round 3 – Leg 2) GAMES: 8 WINS: 1 TIES: 5 LOSSES: 2

Yes Rey was solid in goal.

1:1 final. I'll take it considering it could have been a major disaster.

The only PAOK player really putting any effort into the game today is Henrique. Everybody else is just coasting.

Prijovic close

Indeed for Mak. The first Greek player in the game.

Cimirot probably our worst player today.

What a big difference with Biseswar in the game.

Works all the time. Henrique 1:1

My prediction is we will lose 2:0

10-2 the attempts on goal.

Could have easily been 3:0 by now.

Biseswar and Henrique coming in.

Big save by Rey. We are falling apart and the idiot on the bench is sleeping.

And now it gets interesting.