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The draw for the Superleague is taking place tomorrow. Let's not forget that the first 7 home game will be without fans. Of course we will play all our derbies in that time frame. Superleague also will also vote on the league restructuring (14 or 16 teams), change in play-off format and the legal issues with NOVA.

Poor first half. Slight improvement in the 2nd half. We need some help in midfield and defense. I think the Ajax game will show us where we stand. Stanojevic after the game said that he might have to rethink the 4-4-2 formation. Also said that Deligiannidis has a head start over Konstantinidis.

I saw at least five such signs driving on I-80 from Pittsburgh to Chicago yesterday.

In Greece nothing is final. We don't even know if Superleague will be televised next season.

Greece is not participation for fear of safety for the athletes.

Ochoa is rumored to be signing with Standard Liege despite the fact that apparently PAOK was offering more money.

Don't know why they don't want Malezas on the team. For a backup CB he is decent unless they are looking at bringing somebody else. Four player currently in Holland will be returning back to Thessaloniki as they are not considered by Stojanovic. They are Korovesis, Patralis, Kakko and Dimitriadis.

I don't think Ochoa had any intentions of signing with PAOK. He (or his agent) was just using us to get a better deal somewhere else. I just hope this Rey guy turns out to be a good goalie. Apparently Rey will sing for 4 years with a 400K salary. His old team will retain a certain percentage if we sell him. In other news Antonis is going to VVV Venlo, our next pre-season friendly opponent. Not sure if it is a loan or if we released him.

I am back from my vacation in Dominican Republic, and was able to see the whole game without any distractions. It's obvious Stanojevic is just trying things out. He's just trying to see what kind of players he has available. I don't think we will see anything close to the real lineup until the Ajax and perhaps not until the Antorthosis friendlies. I am liking this Dimitriou guy so far. Surprised we have not seen Konstantinidis and Malezas so far.

Hello Oran and welcome to our forum.

Klaus just continues where he left last season. We should seriously try to unload him. BTW it looks like Malezas is staying.

I doubt Ochoa will sign with PAOK. I think he is using us to get a better deal somewhere else.

That would be great. Maybe they should do that for SL games also. I am having great time here. Nice place, nice weather and unlimited supply of alcohol.

I think it's the discipline. He refused to submit to physical tests. Also don't forget he used the "fell asleep at the airport" excuse when he missed the plane from the African Cup game last season. Hope to catch a stream of the first game while vacationing in the Caribbean.

PAOK will play a friendly game against Anorthosis at Toumba on July 21, which is 6 days prior to our first Europa League game. The pre-season friendly schedule is as follows: July 4: AFC Tubize (Proximus League - Belgium 2nd division) July 9: Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) July12: VVV Venlo (Eredivisie - Holland) July15: Ajax Amsterdam (Eredivisie - Holland) - Amsterdam Arena - The game will be played behind closed doors July21: Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus) - Toumba Stadium

Russian media reports that PAOK and Zenit have agreed for Robert Mak to return to PAOK for next season on 1-year loan basis.

Ended up in 4th place. After beating Turkey the team did not show up for the game games against France and Belgium losing by gig margins. At least we qualified for the World Championships.

I always considered him the Tochoroglou of Mexico, but much better keeper. Saw him only in one game at the Confederation Cup, the 2:2 tie against Portugal. He did not do anything special. Not sure if he is worth 1.5 mil. He would be making at least 500K more than Prijovic who is our highest paid player right now. I have a feeling we will end up with Rey from Argentina. Will cost us same money (600K salary, but big fee to his team). Giannulis was loaned for 2 years to Atromitos. Sounds like he might not play for PAOK again.

Agreed. There are quite few already. Don't know what happened to Alexi Pappas and why she is not competing these days. She could really helped us in the middle distance events. I hope she did not become a Greek citizen just to compete in the 2016 Olymoics.

Good move with the two youngsters. Get them out of Greece and hopefully they will work hard to improve, just like Pelkas did in Portugal.

The SL draw is scheduled for July 13 even though as of today we don't know which teams will be taking part yet.

Too bad the timing mechanism failed. She would have been close to breaking the Greek record in the event.

And also thanks to the fact that Russia was not allowed to compete. Otherwise we would be going down as well.

They count, but since both athletes finished dead last they only get 1 point each.

Today we had qualifying rounds in some of the events. Unfortunately we missed qualifying to the finals in men's 400 and 400 meter hurdles, which means we will receive only two points for the standings. Results: MEN 100m: 4. Tsakonas 10.39 (Q) 200m: 1. Tsakonas 20.33 (Q) 400m: 11. Pappas 48.65 (DNQ) 110m Hurdles: 5. Douvalidis 13.54 (Q) 400m Hurdles: 11. Nakos 52.16 (DNQ) WOMEN 100m: 4. Keramids 11.54 (Q) 200m: 4. Belibasaki 23.27 (Q) 400m: 4. Vasiliou 52.52 (Q) 100m Hurdles: 2. Pesiridou 13.03 (Q) 400m Hurdles: 8. Dalaka 58.09 (Q) BTW you can watch live or videos of the competitions here: http://www.european-athletics.org/