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Last season on first day we sold over 750 season tickets, so it's quite big drop. If we manage to sell over 8,000 this season it will be a miracle.

I don't have any contact for tickets. However I will be in Prague Sep 25 - Sep 30, so we might run into each other.

Starting lineup against FCSB: Game available here:

- Never liked Toskitsis. He was behind InPAOK originally. Now somebody else took over. From that PAOK Today YouTube podcast by far I prefer Antoni Tsakalea. - Yiankos still lives in Miami, Florida. we exchange messages once in a while - we are thinking of signing Kedziora despite the fact that we announced his departure. This is probably due to the upcoming sale of Ingason. - Vieirinha will sign a 1-year contract extension and will travel with the team to Holland. - "the secret CF" is supposedly Bwana Samatta a forward from Tanzania who plays for Fenerbahce

Sorry I made a mistake. The Steaua game is on July 5th.

And I just learned that the four pre-season games will be televised on PAOK TV's YouTube channel.

Can't really judge a player by one play in a game where the result was already decided. Ingason is our best defenseman by far. If we are going to sell him we will need to bring in somebody that in his class or better to replace him.

The games against Steaua and Genk will take place at MFA Kerberos in Swolgen. The Go Ahead game will be played at Zuthpen. The final game against Westerlo will take place at the home of Westerlo. Here is the schedule: 05-JUL-23, 19:30 EEST: PAOK - Steaua Bukurest (MFA Kerberos, Swolgen) 08-JUL-23, 17:00 EEST: PAOK - Go Ahead Eagles Deventer (Sportcentrum Hansapark, Zuthpen) 12-JUL-23, 19:00 EEST: PAOK KRC Genk (MFA Kerberos, Swolgen) 16-JUL-23, 17:00 EEST: KVC Wsterlo - PAOK (Het Kuipje Stadium, Westerlo) Still no word if they will be televised. If we don't have a TV contract by the kick-off I think PAOK TV might show them on their Youtube channel.

Well in good old conspiracy theories there are posts on social media that Kargas was bribed to get the red card in that game with AEK. Kargas is not a bad player, but he did not fit to the style that PAOK plays. That's why he was better when he was playing for Platanias and Giannina. The reason PAOK got him was to be a backup until the injured Michailidis returned to action. And all of a sudden he became a starter in a European game and we know what happened there. I would really hate to see Ingason go, but if he brings in the 4 mil as rumored + plus his 1 mil salary it is a good chunk of money to be used to bring good players to the team.

Why am I slowly getting the feeling that the front office is trying hard not to make any acquisitions in order for Lucescu and Boto to quit on their own so they won't have to pay them to leave?

In the end we managed to stay in the top division, but it was close. With few exception most of our athletes under performed. We could have done much better.

Transfer period has not even started officially...

Two keepers that will sadly never get a chance to play for the senior team.

The performance of Pavlidis was nothing but major failure on his part. He was almost 20 meters behind his best mark. Karydi was poor all season and we should have sent somebody who was consistently jumping over 13 meters this year. As for Stefanidi, she is at the end of her career and it's understandable that she can't perform any more like she used to. The problem is that there is nobody to replace her right now. Even with 4.40m she is the best we have right now. Same goes for Douvalidis. Nobody to take his place. Gnafaki did ok. She was only slightly off from her PB. Going to the 3rd and deciding day, I think we have a decent chance to remain in the top division. All the athletes will have to achieve marks close or above their seasonal best. I just hope it does not come down to the last race, the 4x400m mixed relay. We really have some weak 400 meter athletes this season, specially on the men's side.

Brandon Thomas was officially announced as signing a new contract with PAOK. The new contract is for 1+1 year with slight salary increase in the range of 500K. The option year will depend on Thomas scoring over 10 goals in the season and playing a certain percentage of game.

The goal is to make the group stage. Going through the 2nd and 3rd qualifying rounds means nothing if you miss out on the group stage. Firing Lucescu and Boto would cost the team around 9 mil to buy out their contracts.

He was ok but nothing special. Don't see much difference between him and Rafa Soares. New rumor is central midfielder Magomed Mustafayevich Ozdoyev, Russian who plays for Turkish club Fatih Karagümrük.

Looks like Dalberg is asking for too much money, so we are now looking again at Baba Rahman who is under contract with Chelsea. It appears that Chelsea wants to unload the player, so might get him at a decent price. Rumors are that Virgil Misidjan will be our first signing and will be signed this week.

Both Kotarski and Dantas were starters and also losers on the opening day of the EURO U21 finals. Georgia - Portugal 2:0 Ukraine - Croatia 2:0

This will be the second time we will meet Beitar Jerusalem in European competition. First time was in 2000-2001 in Round 1 of UEFA CUp PAOK - Beitar 3:1 Beitar - PAOK 3:3

And the draw is PAOK - Beitar Jerusalem First game at home.

One of the top two would be preferable, but we will end up with Levski.

Also Zivkovic is a starter in the game with Bulgaria and he's playing quite well.

Draw for Round 1 was made today. The final list of possible opponents as a result of this is as follows: Qualifying Round 2 (PAOK is seeded) - July 27/August 3: Petrocu Hincesti MOL 6.500 FC Drita KOS 6.500 Vojvodina Novi Sad SRB 6.475 Adana Demirspor TUR 6.420 FC Luzern SUI 6.335 Vorskla Polatava UKR 6.000 Bohemians Prague CZE 5.810 AGS Aarhus DEN 5.565 Beitar Jerusalem ISR 5.000 Hammarby IF SWE 4.750 Kalmar FF SWE 4.750 Levski Sofia BUL 4.500 Zalgiris Kaunas LIT 4.500 Pogon Szczecin POL 4.150 Zalaegerszeg TE HUN 4.125 Kecskeméti TE HUN 4.125 DVSC Debrecen HUN 4.125 Sepsi OSK ROM 4.100 Gabala FK AZB 4.000 FK Borac Banja Luka BOS 4.000 CSKA Sofia 1948 BUL 4.000 Sabah FK AZB 3.325 Ordabasy Shymkent KAZ 2.525 FK Aktobe KAZ 2.525 NK Celje SLO 2.500 FK Auda LAT 2.125 Differdange 03 LUX 2.000 Torpedo Zhodino BLS 1.975 winner: Haka Valkeakoski (FIN) - Crusaders FC (NIR) winner: HB Torshavn (FRO) - Derry City FC (IRL) winner: MSK Zilina (SVK) - FC Levadia Tallin (EST) winner: Panevezys (LTU) - FC Milsami Orhei (MDA) winner: FC Tobol Kostanay (KAZ) - FC Honka Espoo (FIN) winner: KF Dukagjini (KOS) - Europa FC (GIB) winner: Penybont FC (WAL) - FC Santa Coloma (AND) winner: B36 Torshavn (FRO) - Paide Linnameeskond (EST) winner: Gzira United FC (MLT) - Glentoran FC (NIR) winner: Balzan FC (MLT) - NK Domzale (SVN) winner: Ararat-Armenia FC (ARM) - KF Egnatia (ALB) winner: FK Zeljeznicar (BIH) - FC Dinamo Minsk (BLR) winner: La Fiorita 1967 (SMR) - FC Zimbru Chisinau (MDA) winner: KF Tirana (ALB) - FC Dinamo Batumi (GEO) winner: Vikingur (FRO) - Inter Club D'Escaldes (AND) winner: FC Progres Niederkorn (LUX) - SC Gjilani (KOS) winner: KA Akureyri (ISL) - Connah's Quay Nomads FC (WAL) Draw for QR2 is tomorrow, June 21, 2023. Prior to the draw teams will be divided into 9 groups. I am going to venture a guess the group of teams that could be the possible opponents for PAOK. This is just a guess on my part: Adana Demispor (TUR) winner: Panevezys (LTU) - FC Milsami Orhei (MDA) Kalmar FF (SWE) DVSC Debrecen (HUN) FC Auda (LAT)

PAOK will probably finish 4th place once the fake Iraklis is deducted 9 points.