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Galatasaray announced some financial details concerning the Rodrigues transfer: - PAOK gets 3.5 mil - players agents will be paid by Galatasaray - PAOK has 20% of resale (hopefully he goes to China in the near future) - Garry got 500K signing bonus and will also be paid 635K for the rest of this season - Garry's salary will be 1.35 mil until 2021

All you have to do is to listen to all the Thessaloniki sports radio stations today to realize that we will never become a team that will become a contender. Just the opinions spewed out by the radio announcers, radio station owners, and fans themselves that are calling for heads to roll just proves that we as PAOK will not make any progress.

With Tzavellas practicing by himself in Athens at the NT facilities and him posting on Twitter that will soon be ready, I think a deal has been reached for him to leave the team. And according to some reports an official announcement is expected by Friday. Also APOEL just announced that they turned down a PAOK offer for Sotiriou and that he is not for sale.

Game is on Sunday. Again one of those early games. At least it will be on TV.

From what I gather Rodrigues was sold for 3.6 mil. We don't owe managers anything. Apparently Gala will take care of that. However we do have to pay Elche 200K. I agree with Yianko, we do have a good base, and all we need 3 to 4 to players to become contenders. I think the biggest mistake by Michel and Ivic was that we did not get a striker during the summer transfer period. Latest rumor is that Michel is in Cyprus to either to buy Sotiriou or sell Tzavellas, or both.

VS MATCHUP: Panaitolikos Agrinio - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Round 3 – Leg 1 DATE: 11-January-2017 TIME: 17:15 GR (15:15 GMT, 09:15 CST, 02:15 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Agrinio – Panaitolikos Stadium (6,400) REFEREES: Ioannis Neofytiadis (Korinthos) - Konstantinos Pontikis (Preveza), Georgios Pashalis (Epiros) TELEVISION: OTE Sport TV (Greece), Antenna Satelliet (USA/Canada), Antenna Pacific (Australia) Laola1.TV (Worldwide) PAOK – Panaitolikos Greek Cup History: 1968-1969: 2:3 (Koudas 2, Paridis) - Attendance: 4,691 (Panaitolikos Stadium) – Round 3 GAMES: 1 WINS: 1 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 0

Final 0:1 Pereyra should have entered the game much earlier. Klaus non-existent. He should not even be on the bench anymore. At least 12 clear cut chances to score a goal. All missed, mostly by Pelkas. MVP of the game: PAS goalkeeper.

I think it's too late.

Mystakidis in for Cimirot PAS Giannina came to Toumba with a school bus parked right in front of their goal.

I think it's time for Mystakidis.

Klaus in for Koulouris

And almost 0:2. If we don't score soon, I am afraid that's what will happen.

Another huge chance missed by Pelkas. And another one right after that.

700K salary for Ansarifard is outrageous. Would be one of the highest paid players on the team. Don't forget we also have to pay 400K to Panionios for a player that will be free in 6 months. Could have done much better for a striker.

I remember one year in Daytona Beach, Florida when it was 80 degrees and all the locals were wearing sweaters and jackets, while we were wearing shorts and short sleeves. It's been quite cold here in Chicago the last few days, but the snow that we got before Christmas has all melted before the cold wave arrived.

According to radio reporters on Metropolis we missed at least 4 clear goals so far. I don't see this ending well.

Dimitris Popovic, who is no longer part of the PAOk organization, and who at one time was promoted as the new Vierinha is close to joining the Czech side Zbrojovka Brno.

Thank god my kids were never into Disney stuff. Took them to the Orlando Disneyworld once and they were only mildly amused. Never went back. They liked Busch Gardens in Tampa better.

Sounds good. If PAOK does not win the playoffs, the next time you're in Chicago I'll treat you to bougatsa from either Panhellenic Pastry Shop (the best) or from Papagalino (pretty good too). Malamatina is on me even if I don't win the bet.

Apparently the deal with Galatasaray is in the 3.6-3.8 mil range plus undisclosed percentage of possible resale. The 20% manager fee will be paid by Galatasaray apparently. Fake story in Turkish press claims that Gala also wants Pereyra. Another story concerning Pereyra appearing on Greek web site speculates that Pereyra wants to leave PAOK. Giannoulis is being looked at by Anorthosis for a possible loan.

Disagree. The -3 points will not make much difference in my opinion. We will end up in the play-offs and there we will finish first as long as PAO and AEK play the way they are. There was never a chance that we would contend for the title. Not as long as the current EPO is still in charge, and as long as we don't have the caliber of players that can do that.

Platanias is beating Panathinaikos with 5 minutes to go. Hope it stays that way.

There was always the possibility that he might not be able to play against us as part of the loan deal. We'll see soon if that is true as we will play them again very soon.

Barrage of names in the media today. There will be a lot more in the next few weeks. Lot of these are probably just speculations by the "fine" Greek reporters. I would not put it past them to planting names on wikipedia, and then using that as proof that they are doing their "journalistic" work. I consider them the biggest scum in Greece along with the politicians.

Jairo will not play in this game as he has reached yellow card limits.