Blackhawk

The prospect of playing in a group stage of CL might be a good incentive. BTW we only owe 80% of Henrique. The 20% goes to Rennais. The only reason to part with Henrique is to be able to afford Vierinha. That's why PAOK is pushing to sell him to Qarabag instead of loaning him. Apparently we are in deep hole financially for this current season so far.

Michel confirmed that he is in negotiations with Qarabag concerning Henrique. I think we will see a lot of moves by PAOK in the next 3 days. Both coming and going.

Yes, but Niki Volos and Olympiakos Volos are threatening to take the "new" club and EPO to courts because they placed the team into 3rd division.

NFC Volos is a team that moved to Volos from another region. They used to be known as Pydna Kitrous. They were brought to Volos by the current city mayor Achilleas Beos.

That might be the move needed if they are really thinking of signing Vierinha. I think someone mentioned we would prefer 2.5 mil outright sale instead of a loan.

Apparently a decision will be made after the transfer closing deadline (August 31). Not sure if it is actually the case or just sleazy media speculation creating their own news. I agree with pash. It would be a mistake to let Michel go.

There is a report that 3 athletes tested positive for doping during the championships. Apparently one of the athletes is a Greek female runner/walker.

Mak 3:1

Instead of the score being 5:0 it is 1:1

1:1

Stupid Shakhov

Game will be available on PAOK TV for people outside of Greece, Cyprus an Albania. Price is 1.99 Euro.

Just got an email from PAE PAOK announcing that all PAOK home games will be streamed live on PAOK TV starting with tomorrow's game against Kerkyra which will be offered at introductory price of 1.99 Euro.

Offered his resignation. Time to bring somebody new to be the next scapegoat.

Leveque and Canas practiced today and are ready to play. El Kaddouri also practiced for the first time with the team. Wonder if he will be in the squad on Sunday.

There are a lot worse eliminations ...

It does not look right now that the games will be on Sport Plus in the USA/Canada and Australia. At least not according to their schedule on their web site. I contacted PAE PAOK asking them what's going on for the rights outside of Greece, and I got a reply that there will be an announcement concerning this on the team web site soon. We'll just have to wait and see.

Biseswar did not have a good game (but who did?), but with him on the field we at least had a little more possession in the midfield. Once he left the field everything collapsed.

I don't know. The whole Ivic situation is quite mysterious to me. There were some major behind the scenes events that went unanswered.

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.