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I don't want Lucescu Jr. at PAOK. I'd rather go for his father. Not sure what Ivic's salary was, but his contract was 1+1 option. There are all kind of rumors why he is leaving and I am afraid we will never know the truth. Sure there are better coaches out there than him, but very few will entertain a coaching position in Greece. That's why in the past we ended up with the likes of Donis (going to a bigger team), Stevens (Greece is great for vacation), Anastasiadis (old school), Tudor & Ivic (learning on the job). One of the main reasons why I want Ivic to stay on is that he knows the mentality of Greek soccer. tell me which coach would have milked the beer bottle incident to get a win in the game he was losing. Plus he did fairly well his first season. He can only improve in the future. I am afraid we are looking at another wasted season ahead if we don't make a good choice.

Apparently all of Ivic's aides were told to pack up their stuff and leave, and that Michel is busy looking for an experienced replacement. Just hope we don't end up with another tourist like Huub Stevens.

And then get injured again in March.

I believe that too. And the longer Olympiakos goes without announcing a new coach, I would not be surprised to see him ending in Piraeus. Don't forget Ivic's brother is closely affiliated with Olympiakos. Personally I think it will be a mistake if we let him go, but if he himself does not want to stay, there is no reason to beg him to stay. Hopefully Michel has already picked a replacement.

Brkic should be let go. Also we need to go and get top notch goalkeeper, who will be our number one for few years. Let Glykos recover from his injury and then he can replace Siabanis as the backup goalie. It will be a while before Glykos gets back to the top form like he was the last season, and I really doubt that he will ever fully recover. In other words we need to go and get a number one goalie.

According to rumors we already accepted that offer and sold Cimirot to Bremen for 5 mil. I believe that Sarajevo also hold 15% of resale value, so we will not be getting the full 5 mil.

I don't think that is the reason. They (POK) would actually welcome trouble at Toumba. The whole has little to do with the game. It's all politics and the fact that Ivan Savvidis is trying to become an economic force in Greece getting a piece of the pie that is controlled by a bunch families that have been running the country for decades. As long as he limited his investment in Thessaloniki and northern Greece he was tolerated (the last 5 years). Once he started to get his sights on media holdings in Athens (ie. TV license, control of MEGA Channel) the war has started. You even saw the enemies (Alafouzois & Marinakis & Melissanidis) sticking together to fight the threat from Savvidis.

The best thing that ever happened to the team.

They are not kidding. On top of that AEK only got 3 games without fans and no point deductions. Yes AEK whose fans started the trouble. There was a reason why the fine announcement was delayed until the game with Panathinaikos finished, and it has very little to do with what happened at Volos.

pash you realize the Lucescu in question is Mircea Lucescu, the 72 year old ex-Zenith, Shakhtar, Besiktas, Galatasaray, Inter Milan Reggina, Dinamo Bukurest coach and not his son that coached Xanthi.

6 mil

July 14

If you want to be called a big team, you must try and do your best in every competition and that includes Europe.

After winning the championship, the girls will go for the double on June 4 in Greek Cup final against Feidon Argos.

The goal for next season in EL should be the Round of 16.

The team that finishes 2nd during regular season usually does not win the playoffs. Today the blame is clearly on Ivic. Things were going his way in the game and he blew it.

AEK was the clearly better team in the playoffs, but still the way things went we should have been able to finish first.

We end up playing in the 3rd round of Europa League. Most like would have ended up in EL even if we made Cl qualifying. We will be among the seeded teams. Fist leg July 27, second leg August 3rd.

1. AEK 12 2. PAOK 11 3. PAO 8 4. Panionios 4

Brkic did not lose the game. It was the attitude of the coach and the team as a whole. Twice you have the lead and you manage to lose the game. Pathetic.

2:3

And Ivic took out our only two offensive threats.

PAOK has lost the plot and playing into hands of the ref who is clearly favoring Panathinaikos.

Bye bye CL