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Good to see Jaba back. Giorgos Vrakas is on the bench. This youngster went to Napoli but is allowed to take part today if Abel wants to.

And OFI has a new club logo:

At Rapid Vienna there was also a player with a positive COVID19 test. And with an overall increase off positive test around the World I’ m not sure if the European season will (or must) commence as scheduled. A lot of countries are returning to the phase they were in around the end of March: code red or at least orange. edit: all tests at PAOK were negative today!

Ζίβκοβιτς , Πασχαλάκης , Ρέι , Μελίσσας, Μιχάι , Βαρέλα , Κρέσπο , Ίνγκασον , Μιχαηλίδης , Διαμαντής, Τσαούσης, Ροντρίγκο , Μάτος , Γιαννούλης , Βέρνμπλουμ , Εσίτι , Ντόουγκλας , Τσιγγάρας , Μπαλογιάννης, Σβαμπ , Ελ Καντουρί , Πέλκας , Μπίσεσβαρ , Ζαμπά , Λημνιός , Τζόλης , Ουάρντα, Άκπομ , Σφιντέρσκι , Κούτσιας are travelling to Pilio tomorrow. Douglas Augusto and Misic are for the known reasons not included. Youngster Hatzistravos is injured and Stoch is not allowed to take part because of COVID-19.

This is the last year for the current European format. We might as well qualify for once now as CL and EL become a private party for the happy few from the 2021/2022-season: https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/General/02/58/61/42/2586142_DOWNLOAD.pdf Greece is now #17 but with a good run of FC Basel in this year’s EL that will restart this week could end #18. Only the Greek champion qualifies for the Q’s of CL. Q2 if #17, Q1 if #18. Only 4 champions of the minnows qualify for CL GS............... The CW, N2 and N3 qualify for Q2 of the new Conference League. No Greek clubs in the (new) EL!!!

Doxa is in Cypriot hands now: https://fcdoxadramas.gr/ekleise-oristika-kai-ekselissetai-omala-i-symfonia-me-tous-kyprious-ependytes/

Also Dietmar Berchtold according to inpaok.com. Just one game. Just like Gspurning. Should be easy for Schwab becoming the best Austrian ever at PAOK. He will be wearing jersey #22 (available since Lamprou left).

There might be someone with COVID-19 at the club. All test so far were negative though: https://www.gazzetta.gr/football/superleague/article/1500234/upopto-kroysma-koronoioy-ston-paok

He is going on loan to FC Twente. The purchase clause is €4 mil. Don't think Twente can buy him unless they win the lottery in the near future.

Probably he wasn’t succesfull. He is now going to Larisa: https://www.metrosport.gr/apo-tis-akadimies-toy-paok-sti-nyremvergi-kai-meta-sti-larisa-274229 Don't think we will get some extra money......

Karnezis moves to Lille for three years in a package deal (Victor Osimhen to Napoli for Karnezis + 50 € mill). He will earn about 1.5 € a year. Not bad considering his age (35).

Even quicker. August 3 is the day entries for European Cups close. The rules are there. Covid-19 wasn’t included though. UEFA allows FA’s to apply rules made by that FA. But also like criteria that follow sportmanship. GD is subjective. AZ might have won just one game of the remaining games with 7-0 and would have been first on GD. But those games aren’t played. The HTH games are played and thus more an objective criterium to determine the ranking. And we are talking about a lot of money. The Dutch champion or rather participant for that spot will 99,99% be in GS. Startbonus is € 25 mil.!! Can’t see it happening too, but they have a point in my opinion. Look at France. There the League was ended too and the French FA reversed the # of Stade Reims and Nice. GD of Reims was better but HTH was in favor of Nice.

020 did not win the League! And AZ is still trying to persuade the Dutch FA that AZ should be in the champions path and 020 in the League path. Because they beat 020 twice (2-0 and 1-0 convincing victories) but just had a worse GD (with equal points) in the unfinished championship. If this happens we still might face those ........

Barkas signed a four-year contract at Scottish Premier League champions Celtic. Good for him. And AEK who gets £ 5 mil + bonusses.

Former AEK-keeper Yiannis Anestis won the Swedish Cup with IFK Göteborg, beating Malmö FF 2-1 AET.

According to an Austrian fella on the site of Kassies he has scored 51 goals and provided 51 assist at Rapid. The goals I see confirmed at wikipedia. A better average than Mauricio, I would say.

The first and only in my mind: the mighty Gspurning. I remember him only as a sub.

Vieirinha got a new offer. € 500K + bonusses. And if he plays 70% of next year’s game the contract will be extended automatically with one year. It’s up to André now.

Just reading a Dutch football magazine and Van 't Schip was attending Fortuna Sittard's friendly against second tier FC Dordrecht last saturday to see how Lazaros Rota is doing.

Don’t know either.

For me any opponent except Plzen. BTW, Trabzonspor might be still be eligible playing in next season's CL League path. They went to CAS too. If so then we are seeded and then any club except AZ.

Besiktas won. Sivasspor lost so we are unseeded. So Viktoria Plzen, Rapid Wien or Besiktas in the pot as our possible opponent.

Next “target” of us: 24 year old keeper Ivo Grbic from Lokomotiva Zagreb. He is 1.95 m. and from the youth academy of Hajduk Split. If true: one of Paschalakis and Zivkovic has to leave or will leave together with Rey. Edit: Georgie is denying it.

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