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NAME: Antonis TSIFTSIS POSITION: Goalkeeper JERSEY NUMBER: 99 BIRTHDAY: 21-July-1999 BIRTH PLACE: Giannitsa, Greece HEIGHT 1.91 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: Asteras Tripolis, Rakow, Asteras Tripolis CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2028 SALARY: € 200,000 per season

It's official: We paid Tripoli 400K and they have 20% resale option. He will be paid 200K per season.

Hopefully he stays in this good form until the Olympics. I am sure if he jumps 5.92 m in Paris he will be in the medal hunt.

Another loan

NAME: Mohamed Madi CAMARA POSITION: Midfield JERSEY NUMBER: 2 BIRTHDAY: 28-February-1997 BIRTH PLACE: Matam, Guinea HEIGHT 1.82 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: 09-September-2018 (Guinea – Central African Republic 1:0 – Africa Cup) PREVIOUS TEAMS: AS Roma, Olympiakos Piraeus, Ajaccio, Santoba FC, AS Kaloum CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2027 SALARY: € 1,200,000 per season (plus € 1,200,000 signing bonus)

First training session for the champions today. Taking part were our new signings Thymianis and Camara. Also present were our last season's loaners Lyratzis and Tsaousis. Several players from the 'B' team were present as well: Darelas, Smyrlis, Goumas, Tsopouroglou and Quagliata. From the existing roster the players that got an extra vacation are Rafa Soares, Taison, Koulierakis, Tsiggaras, Despodov and Zivkovic.

Emanouil Karalis broke the Greek national record in Pole Vault by jumping 5.92 meters in an international meeting in Poland. He broke the record (5.91 m) held by Filippidis since 2015.

With that goal Serbia still has a chance to finish 2nd in their group and qualify. Ideally though we want Serbia to be eliminated so Zivkovic can join PAOK as soon as possible.

It's official. Camara signs with PAOK for 3 years.

If we are serious we should not have any trouble qualifying to QR3. Hope we don't approach them like we did Levski Sofia.

We have "officially" told Meite that our offer for him is off the table. We also informed Benfica that the deal we made with them to set Meite free is off as well. Let's see if this is just putting pressure on Meite to make up his mind, or if we decided to look elsewhere.

Garcia also wants Lyratzis and Tsiggaras to join him at Atromitos.

That's way too early for me.

We did have hard time against Red Imps in Gibraltar playing on artificial turf, until Taylor did his magic and unlocked the 0:0 stalemate few years back.

That's not the number he picked. It was just leftover from a copy/paste exercise.

The draw for the first qualifying round of CL was made today. The draw for QR2 is tomorrow at 13:00 CET and we will face one of the winners from the following matches or Jagellonia Billystok FC Flora Tallinn (EST) - NK Celje (SVN) Virtus AC 1964 (SMR) - FCSB (ROM) KI Klaksvik (FRO) - FC Diferdange 03(LUX) Vikingur Reykjavik (ISL) - Shamrock Rovers (IRL) Hamrun Spartans (MLT) - Lincoln Red Imps FC (GIB) The New Saints FC (WAL) - FK Decic (MNE) FC RFS Riga (Lat) - Larne FC (NIR) FC Dinamo Minsk (BLR) - FC Pyunik (ARM) FC Ordabasy (KAZ) - FC Petrocub (MDA) FC Ballkani (KOS) - UE Santa Coloma (AND FK Borac Banja Luka (BIH) - KF Egnatia (ALB) Jagiellonia Bilaystok (POL)

First there will be a draw for QR1 on Tuesday June 18 which already has seedings and groupings set. Wednesday will be the draw for QR2 which will include PAOK. So far the only possible opponent that is known that we might face is Jagielonia Bialystok (POL) The remaining possible 11 opponents will be winners from QR1.

NAME: Konstantinos THYMIANIS POSITION: Right Back JERSEY NUMBER: - BIRTHDAY: 28-February-2001 BIRTH PLACE: Ptolemaida, Greece HEIGHT 1.86 m PAOK DEBUT: NT DEBUT: PREVIOUS TEAMS: Panserraikos Serres, Skoda Xanthi, Iraklis Ptolemaida CONTRACT ENDS: 30-Jun-2027 SALARY: €

Apparently we are ready to extend the contract with Michailidis and give him a raise from 300K to 500K.

That rumor has been around for at least 6 months now. Don't know how true it is. His contract with Aris expired, so it just might be some fake news being propagated by media that have nothing else to write about. I could see it happening if we are able to get rid of Nasberg and Ekong.

One gold (Tentoglou) and two silver (Stefanidis, Karalis) medals for Greece at the European Championships.

Also forgot to mention that Zivko Zivkovic and Marcos Antonio are officially gone from PAOK.

The games that have been officially announced are: 03-Jul-24, 19:00 EEST: PAOK - AEK Larnaca 10-Jul-24, 19:00 EEST: PAOK - KRC Genk

Camara agreed to a 3-year deal at 1.2 mil per year and a signing bonus of 1.2 mil, so basically it comes out to 1.6 mil per season. He will be coming to Thessaloniki to undergo medical tests and sign the contract in few days. It other transfer news, Thymianis passed the medical tests and will sign 3-year deal with PAOK. PAOK is giving Kedziora few days to work things out with Dynamo Kiev before making a final decision about him. We also gave Meite a deadline to accept or turn down our offer. I think Meite is looking around to find something better than what we are offering.

Diego Biseswar was released from his contract by his current team SteDoCo.