Dutch Eagle

Yep. In The Netherlands this is about the fifth consecutive year that these players try to earn a contract. They are supported by the labor/trade union. Only a few succeed. But the players keep in shape and are a real test for their opponents as they give their best shot.

The Brugge-game will be on the 11th of July. PAOK will also play against German second Bundesliga-team Bochum on the 8th of July. Two other friendlies will be against players from The Netherlands and Belgium without a contract.

Nice. Dinato game. We need that. Saw Panathinaikos will play them on the 7th of July.

For what its worth (UEFA did not release the groups before on the internet): PAOK was amongst the seeded teams in group 1. The other possible opponents were: Torpedo Zhodino, F91 Dudelange, FC Vaduz and Zeljeznicar Sarajevo. Could have been easier, but I'm glad we did not draw Sarajevo

25-year old keeper Robin Olsen of Malmo FF (Sweden) will sign for us according to Swedish media. He is 1.98 m (or 6 ft 6) and has played two times for Swedens National team. Yia na doume.

PAOK will be in Doorwerth from July 2nd till July 14th. Indeed 3 friendlies (no names/clubs) mentioned. From there the team will travel to Croatia or Wales.

Do-able in my opinion. Lokomotiva have a coefficient of 5.200 Airbus UK Broughton 1.075

AUK Broughton (WAL)/Lokomotiva Zagreb (KRO) - PAOK!

Apoel will meet FK Vardar. The first game will be a home-game.

According to Greek media Tsipras has made a good step by announcing that Greece is ready to abolish early retirement, increase the VAT and raise taxes for the rich. Juncker has called it a good basis for todays meeting.

Apoel awaites todays draw and will face in the second qualifying round one of below mentioned unseeded teams: FK Sarajevo (BIH) FC Astana (KAZ) FK Rudar Pljevlja (MNE) FK Vardar (FYROM) Hibernians FC (MLT)

Christian Noboa is eliminated with Ecuador of this years Copa America. Ecuador finished third in group A but was the worst third placed team.

Come on, Pash! Your club needs you. And you will have the opportunity to ban our Italian friend too :-)

Slobodan Rajkovic is said to sign tomorrow. Let's wait and see. Turkish side have allowed Isaksson to talk with PAOK. No fee needed.

According to Mexican media PAOK and Gavros are interested in Guillermo Ochoa. The Mexican is mostly on the bench at Malaga.

The second qualifying round draw will be next Monday at 14.30 CET. It will be streamed live on UEFA.com.

We will start the 2015/2016 season on the 55th spot in the ranking. UEFA EL points system First qualifying round elimination - 0.25 points Second qualifying round elimination - 0.5 points Third qualifying round elimination - 1 point Play-off elimination 1.5 points Group Stage win - 2 points Group stage draw - 1 point Thus, we need to reach the GS and then to win 3 games and draw two times at least to get those points and in the mean time we will qualify for the next round. We also get 20% of the association coefficient over the last five years. As Gavros en Asteras have reached the GS (4 points awarded in CL) Greece will have 6 points for sure. Devided by 5 (Greek participants) x 20% = 0.24 points for every Greek team participating but also the teams not participating this years but in future years to come.

According to wikipedia even Vryzas is Pontios :1eye:

I agree with Serraios!

Congrats Blackhawk a.k.a. Ziaka!! :tup:

Latest gossip is that Deportivo La Coruna wants to swap Haris Medunjanin for Lucas Perez. Medunjanin is a good midfielder. He plays for the national squad of Bosnia and Herzegovina and participated in World Cup 2014 in Brazil. He was a refugee and was educated at AZ Alkmaar. In his early career he played for The Netherlands and became European Youth Champion. But later he decided to play for his country of birth. I like his style but I think we already have his kind of player: Ergis Kace. I think we need a power-midfielder like Pogba.

He has a contract until the summer of 2018. It will be probably a free transfer as he is not in Dortmunds plans. Maybe they want to get rid of his salary.

Milos Jojic of Borussia Dortmund is offered to PAOK. He is a 23 year old Serbian midfielder who used to play for our brothers of Partizan. Don't know him.

Pash, it's not odd. I want to go to matches near the French-Belgian (about a two-hours drive) so I want to apply for tickets in the cities of Lens and Lille, whatever teams will face each other. Just to get the Euro-experience with my sons. Later on one can apply for the preferred country.

Well, I will take my PAOK-fanela with me to Greece, so there will be nothing of value at home when I'm gone. I live in a village a few km south of Rotterdam. It's about 100 km of Doorwerth. PAOK will probably have some friendlies in the neighbourhood and otherwise I don't mind driving.