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Costa is no longer on the team. Also Charisis is out for a month due to another injury. He is becoming a new Konstantinidis. if the rumors floating around about him about spending endless nights in Thessaloniki bars are true, it's not surprising he gets injured so often. pash I think Tzavellas will play as CB, with Korovesis on LB. Pelkas in Charisis's spot, and Mak on left wing. Hope Tudor does not experiment again with Sabo in a position he never played. Unfortunately I see us being destroyed in this game.

With 1:1 from the first leg, all we need is a scoreless tie.

vs MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Panionios Athens COMPETITION: Greek Cup - Quartefinal - Leg 2 DATE: 11-February-2016 TIME: 19:30 GR (17:30 GMT, 11:30 CST, 04:30 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (28,703) REFEREES: Athanasios Tzilos (Larisa) - Leonidas Fragkiadakis (Dodecanese), Nikolaos Karaisaridis (Pieria) TELEVISION: OTE Sport TV (Greece), Antenna Satellite (USA/Canada), Antenna Pacific (Australia), Laola1.TV (Worldwide) PAOK - Panionios Greek Cup history: 1997-1998 1:1 (Vryzas) - Attendance: ? (Semifinal - Leg 2 - ELIMINATED) 1996-1996 4:0 (Alexiou, Toursounidis, Pis, Katsouris) - Attendance: ? (Round 1? Leg 1) 1988-1989: 2:0 (Small, Skartados) - Attendance: ? (Quartefinal - Leg 1) 1986-1987: 1:0 (Baniotis)- Attendance: 25,977 (Round 2 - Leg 2 -ELIMINATED) 1981-1982: 1:0 (Damanakis) - Attendance: ? (Quartefinal - Leg 1) 1974-1975: 1:0 (Terzanidis) - Attendance: ? (Quartefinal - Single Leg - QUALIFIED) 1969-1970: 1:0 (Koudas) - Attendance: ? (Quartefinal - Single Leg -QUALIFIED) GAMES: 7 WINS: 6 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 0

Mak was selected not to play in the PAOK - Iraklis game, so he will be available on Sunday. Let's not forget that we don't have a big selection of forwards for this game. Only Mak and Klaus. Wonder what king of formation will Tudor employ. He should also remember that we have a lot more important game on Thursday against Panionios in the cup.

Iakovos Aggelidis resigned as the PAE PAOK president today. Lubos Michel, the Slovakian ex-referee will apparently be announced as the new president tomorrow.

Presidents of PAE PAOK since 1979- 1980, the start of the professional soccer in Greece: 1979 - 1984: Giorgos Pantelakis 1984 - 1986: Petros Kalafatis 1986 - 1988: Charis Savvidis 1988 - 1989: Giannis Dedeoglou 1989 - 1996: Thomas Voulinos 1996 - 1996: Georgios Kalyvas 1996 - 2001: Georgios Batatoudis 2001 - 2003: Petros Kalafatis 2003 - 2006: Giannis Goumenos 2006 - 2007: Nikos Vezyrtzis 2007 - 2009: Theodoros Zagorakis 2009 - 2010: Zisis Vryzas 2010 - 2011: Theodoros Zagorakis 2011 - 2014: Zisis Vryzas 2014 - 2016: Iakovos Angelides (Cyprus) 2016 - 2016: Lubos Michel (Slovakia) 2016 - present: Ivan Savvidis

Apparently Vezyrtzis will resign as PAE PAOK vice-president tomorrow. That follows the resignation of PAE PAOK president Jack Aggelidis. Vezyrtzis probably got pissed off that Savvidis chose Michel as the new president instead of him.

The Costa move really makes no sense considering he was gone after this season anyway. I guess they think that we can make it with Vitor, Malezas, Tzavellas and Chatziisaia for the rest of the season. Good luck with that. The bigger problem though is that we did not get help with a "dekari". Pelkas just does not cut it. There was a talk of signing Chavez who won his release from Giannina. That move would not make any sense prior to Saturday, but after loosing Rodrigues and Jairo for 6 weeks, I am surprised we did not sign him.

Here you go:

Kace, just like Berbatov is on Tudor's black list for some reason.

As worn by Koudas in 1966:

Possible lineup: ---------------- Vellidis ---------------- Kitsiou - Vitor - Costa - Korovesis ------- Tziolis --------- Cimirot ------ Mystakidis -- Pelkas -- Rodrigues ----------------- Mak ------------------

Dimitris Popovic who was on loan to Panserraikos for the last 6 months has now been loaned to Cypriot "B" division team Karmiotissa Polemidon. Another talent wasted.

Well at least we got a player in Chatzisiisaias for a position where we hurt and that is CB. If we can get a "dekari" by Monday, I will be happy. BTW welcome to the forums PAOKSYD.

Here is the jersey commemorating the 90 years of PAOK. It is based on the jersey worn by PAOK in 1965-1966. There is a picture of Koudas wearing this jersey. I believe Pontos used to have this pic as his avatar. Very nice jersey in my opinion, and I will be getting one for sure. Also I heard that the team might be wearing this jersey in tomorrow's game against Atromitos.

Tomorrow (29-Jan) at 19:15 Greek time the official unveiling of the commemorative jersey for PAOK's 90th birthday will take place. It will be streamed live on PAOK TV (https://www.youtube.com/user/paokfootball)

Looks like the first two semifinalists are already known following the first leg of the quarterfinals. I believe that there still will be one surprise elimination in this round. Let's hope it's not PAOK. PAOK - Panionios ---, 1:1 Asteras - Olympiakos ---, 0:5 Iraklis - AEK ---, 1:4 Atromitos - Panathinaikos ---, 0:0

Only the guys at Radio Arvila can make such funny videos. Good stuff.

Additionaly, Tzavellas is out of this one as well due to cards.

Looks like the Chatzisaias deal will be announced tomorrow. It will be a 4-year deal. Apparently we will pay Panionios 500K transfer fee. Looks like all these teams with financial problems (Panionios, Giannina) found a cash cow in Savvidis and are milking him for every Euro they can get.

Four yellow cards. Would have been interesting to see if Tudor would have started Berbatov in Klaus's absence, or if his ego would have prevent him from doing so.

No Klaus or Berbatov in this game, so I don't know what kind of offense Tudor comes up with.

vs MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Atromitos Athens COMPETITION: Superleague - Round 20 DATE: 30-January-2016 TIME: 19:30 GR (17:30 GMT, 11:30 CST, 04:30 AEDT next day) CITY / STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: Andreas Pappas ( Athens) - Hasan Koula (Xanthi), Christos Baltas (Achaia) TELEVISION: Nova Sport (Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria), Laola1.TV (worldwide except Greece, Cyprus, Albania and Bulgaria) PAOK FC - Atromitos History 2014-2015: 0:1 - Attendance: 4,618 (PLAYOFFS) 2014-2015: 2:1 (Kace, Rat) - Attendance: 11,494 2013-2014: 3:0 (Natcho-p, Stoch, Vukic) - Attendance: no fans (PLAYOFFS) 2013-2014: 2:0 (Salpiggidis, Natcho) - Attendance: 11,355 2012-2013: 1:2 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 9,538 (PLAYOFFS) 2012-2013: 0:0 - Attendance: 9,684 2011-2012: 3:1 (Lino, Vieirinha, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 9,880 2011-2012: 0:1 - Attendance: 9,440 (PLAYOFFS) 2010-2011: 0:1 - Attendance: 13,157 2009-2010: 1:0 (Papazoglou) - Attendance: 17,119 Between 1981 - 2009 Atromitos was playing in lower divisions before merging with Chalkydona in 2008. 1980-1981: 2:0 (Kermanidis 2) - Attendance: 7,997 1976-1977: 2:1 (Iosifidis, Apostolidis) - Attendance: ? 1975-1976: 1:2 (Koudas) - Attendance: ? 1974-1975: 5:1 (Apostolidis, Kermanidis, Sarafis, Terzanidis, Lazos) - Attendance: ? 1972-1973: 2:1 (Sarafis 2) - Attendance: ? 1960-1961: 2:0 (Leandros, own goal) - Attendance: ? GAMES: 16 WINS: 10 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 5

Good result considering we play like s%$#! in the last few games. We still have a chance to qualify, but with such display it makes no difference, since we don't have what it takes to eliminate the other big three to make the final. Unfortunately we have become a "small team" with "small team" attitude. The season started with such great expectations, but it slowly turns out to be another wasted one. I really though we might make some improvements in the second half of the season, but it looks like Tudor might be too inexperienced to move this team forward. And now he gets his ego get in the way, ruining the chemistry of the team. Like I said, we will probably qualify, but I don't see us having any luck in the semis unless we really start performing. Costa, Tzavellas, and Korovesis probably our best players today, and in my opinion none of those three should even be on PAOK's roster. Mak, Klaus, Skondras very poor in the last few games.

Yianko, I live quite close to the O'Hare International Airport. Maybe too close. Next time let me know and we can meet.