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Sometimes I just don't understand the people running PAOK. Once again we were burned during a transfer period. We are now begging the player to come to us. Instead of issuing an ultimatum to him to give his final answer we have Michel making daily emergency trips to Athens to beg him. I think we are now at the point where Savvidis does not want to back down so the Moledo issue would not be presented as a defeat by PAOK in Athenian press. Specially if he ends up at Olympiakos. The bad thing is that we had a much better CB on our roster than Moledo in Zambrano, but for some weird reason we kicked him out of the team.

In that case unless Rennais pays the 10mil buyout option the player can't go anywhere. He can't sign with anybody unless he is in his last 6 months of his contract with PAOK. The more I think about the Moledo deal the more I want it to fail. Specially if all this is just for a 6-month loan. I would not mind Mystakidis going on a loan for the rest of this season. He will hardly get any playing time at PAOK. He needs games to get into shape both physically and mentally.

The latest with Moledo is that the player agreed with PAOK and is ready to travel to Toumba to sign the contract. PAOK will pay PAO somewhere between 290 - 400K (depending on which fake news site you believe) . Some of that money will also go to Moledo who is owed around 140K by Panathinaikos in back wages. Kace and Kosntantinidis will be loaned to PAO with PAOK paying their wages for the rest of the season, but there appear to be some final details that need to be ironed out. Panathinaikos also asked for Mystakidis loan as part of the deal. Apparently PAOK told all involved that the deal needs to be completed by Thursday or they will withdraw their interest in Moledo. I am sure we have not heard the latest in this soap opera.

According to the French news reports (or fake news) Prijovic has already agreed with Rennais at a salary of 2.5 mil. If that is the case and we believe PAE PAOK that he is not for sale, then the French teams and the player broke FIFA rules, since he is under contract until 2021.

March 23, 2018 Greece - Switzerland (Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki)

The longer this Moledo situation goes on, the sooner PAOK should just announce that they are no longer interested.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – Apollon Smyrnis COMPETITION: Superleague – Round 18 DATE: 21-January-2018 TIME: 15:00 GR (13:00 GMT, 07:00 CST, 00:00 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: novasport2 (Greece, Cyprus, Albania), PAOK TV (Worldwide except Greece, Cyprus, Albania) P.A.O.K. vs. Apollon Smyrnis history: Superleague 2013-2014: 0:0 - Attendance: 8,523 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 1999-2000: 1:1 (Vryzas) - Attendance: 9,679 1998-1999: 3:1 (Valencia, Krismarevic, Konstantinidis) - Attendance: 5,079 1997-1998: 1:0 (Nagbe) - Attendance: 4,760 1996-1997: 3:1 (Frantzeskos, Tasiopoulos, Inempolitidis) - Attendance: 4,481 1995-1996: 2:1 (Kapetanopoulos, Gioukoudis-p) - Attendance: 863 (played in Volos) 1994-1995: 1:1 (own goal) - Attendance: 4,690 1993-1994: 1:0 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 1,484 1992-1993: 2:0 (Alexiou, Ikonomidis) - Attendance: 1,555 1991-1992: 2:1 (Djurdjevic, Skartados) - Attendance: 7,177 1990-1991: 3:0 (Borbokis, Karageorgiou, Skartados) - Attendance: 4,503 1989-1990: 1:1 (Lagonidis -p) - Attendance: no fans 1988-1989: 3:2 (Small 2, Skartados ) - Attendance: 11,070 1986-1987: 3:0 (Baniotis, Skartados, Alexandridis) - Attendance: 12,757 1985-1986: 5:0 (Skartados 2, Kostikos 2, Paprica) - Attendance: 10,489 1984-1985: 0:0 - Attendance: 17,251 1983-1984: 3:2 (Koudas, Skartados, Dimopoulos) - Attendance: 4,722 1982-1983: 2:0 (Skartados, Trimhold) - Attendance: 3,023 1981-1982: 3:0 (Iosifidis, Tsourelas, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 8,547 1980-1981: 3:0 (Kermanidis 2, Triantafylidis) - Attendance: 8,465 1979-1980: 1:0 (Kostikos) - Attendance: 2,387 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 3:0 (Apostolidis, Orfanos, Sarafis) - Attendance: ? 1977-1978: 3:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1976-1977: 2:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1975-1976: 3:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1973-1974: 4:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1971-1972: 3:0 (Apostolidis 2, Mantzourakis) - Attendance: ? 1970-1971: 0:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1968-1969: 2:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1967-1968: 1:1 (Afentoulidis) - Attendance: 15,000 1966-1967: 2:1 (Leandros 2) - Attendance: ? 1965-1966: 4:1 (Afentoulidis, Giakoumis, Koudas-p, Charalambidis) - Attendance: 15,000 1964-1965: 2:1 (Giakoumis, Apostolidis) - Attendance: ? 1963-1964: 0:2 - Attendance: ? 1962-1963: 2:0 (Hasiotis, Leandros) - Attendance: ? 1961-1962: 2:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1960-1961: 1:1 (Leandros) - Attendance: ? 1959-1960: 1:2 (Katikaridis) - Attendance: 8,000 Panhellenic Championship 1957-1958: 2:3 (Katikaridis, Papaioannou) - Attendance: ? 1956-1957: 1:2 (Kouiroukidis) - Attendance: 8,000 1955-1956: 2:2 (?) - Attendance: ? 1954-1955: 3:0 (Karafoulidis 3) - Attendance: ? 1947-1948: 1:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1935-1936: 1:2 (?) - Attendance: ? 1931-1932: 1:3 (Papaiordanidis-p) - Attendance: ? 1930-1931: 2:0 (Lazarou, Papaiordcanidis-p) - Attendance: 3,000 GAMES: 46 WINS: 29 TIES: 11 LOSSES: 6

The Olympiakos - AEK matchup is good for the us as far as the Superleague is concerned.

AEK was lucky because PAS did not get a penalty call when the score was 0:0. If it was called it would also have been a red card to the goalie. AEK will have a tough time with all the big and frequent games coming up for them.

Nice win but not a good game by PAOK. Against better teams we would be in trouble.

Nice goal by Pelkas

Mak, Prijovic in. Limnios, Kouloris out

2;0 with a ucky one from Campos after a mistake by the ex PAOK goalie.

We are flirting with disaster. Better wake up soon.

Mauricio is off as well. The sooner we score the second goal the better. We should not be playing with fire.

Matos as usual

Exactly why he should not have started. Kerkyra very dangerous on counters.

Apparently Koulouris will star as forward ahead of Prijovic. What is Lucescu smoking?

Could be a pressure tactic to push the Moledo deal along.

Well yes, their reason to introduce this is to replace the playoffs and keep NOVA happy since they want their money.And on top of that they do it half assed.

If done properly it could be useful competition. It could serve as team preparation at the beginning of the season and also give playing time to second string players throughout the season However the way they decided to do it is stupid. Like always, no planning at all. They basically decided that at the end of this season (end of April) they will have this League Cup competition.

Teams qualifying to the quartefinal: PAOKAtromitosOlympiakosAEKPanioniosAE LarisaPAS LamiaPAS Giannina Who do we want in Monday's draw? I would take Larisa or Lamia and hope for a Panionios - AEK/Olympikoas, Atromitos - AEK/Olympiakos or Olympiakos AEK matchups.

Teams that qualified to the quarterfinal: PAOK Atromitos Olympiakos AEK Panionios Larisa Lamia Giannina Draw is on Monday.

Marcio Gonzaga de Azevedo signed to a 6-month loan. His jersey number will be 30. We will pay 50% of his Shakhtar Donetsk salary. His contract with Shakhtar ends in June 2018, so if we like him we can sign him for free at that time.

Moledo will most likely be announced tomorrow. We will pay 300K to Panathinaikos. Kace and Konstantinidis to be loaned as well with their salaries to be paid by PAOK. Final details will be announced tomorrow. Rumors are that Panathinaikos asked as part of negotiations for Moledo not to play in our game against them at Leoforos in Round 29 of Superleague. I have not heard of Mystakidis being involved. I know that Panathinaikos really wanted Koulouris. I would not mind Mystakidis being loaned so he could get in shape both physically and mentally and be ready for the 2018-19 season.