Dutch Eagle

The two keepers we are interested in are 32-year old Guillermo Ochoa from Malaga (his contract ends in a few days) and Jiri Pavlenka (Slavia Prague, he is 1.96 m. tall, 25 years old and should cost about 1,5 mil)

PAOK is drawn in qualifying Group 10 for the CL. Opponents are: SFK 2000 Sarajevo (BIH)* KS Vllaznia (ALB) Bettembourg (LUX) * host games to be played August 22nd-28th.

Q1 EL: AEK Larnaca - St Joseph's (Gibraltar). First leg June 29th. Return July 6th. Q2 EL: Winner Rangers (Scotland)/Progres Niederkorn (Luxemburg) vs AEL (Assuming they win of course). First game July 13th. Second game July 20th. So an easy draw and a tough draw for them.

Q1 EL: AEK Larnaca - Lincoln (Gibraltar). First match June 29th. Return July 6th. Q2 EL (If they progress, but who doubts this): AEK Larnaca - winner Levadia Tallinn (Estonia)/Cork City (Rep. of Ireland). First game July 13th. Second game July 20th.

First leg July 13th. Second leg July 20th.

Apollon starts its European campaign in Q2 EL with a homegame against the winner of the match between Zaria Balti (Moldova) and FK Sarajevo (Bosnia). First leg July 13th. Second leg July 20th.

Panionios drew for Q2 of EL the winner of the tie FC Shirak (Armenia)/ND Gorica (Slovenia) of Q1. First game in Athens unless UEFA decides to change that.

Easy draw for APOEL: they face F91 Dudelange of Luxemburg in Q2 of CL. First a game at home on July 11/12. The away-game will be on July 18/19.

Stonojevic wants to see the players earlier than June 25th (somehowe the 21st I mentioned earlier was changed) to get to know the players better. Therefore the first day he will have the roster together is scheduled now for June 22nd.

I can not rate our new coach but I don't like it in general to give a coach a 3-years contract. Especially in Greece where the avarage expiration date of coaches is low (last season 7 coaches were sacked officially, 5 coaches were sacked but that was called in mutual consent). I keep my fingers crossed.

The pre season friendlies while being in The Netherlands are announced: July 4th against a yet unknown second tier team; July 8th against Club Brugge; July 12th against VVV Venlo (just promoted to the Dutch Eredivisie); July 15th against Ajax. Venues not released yet. Might grab some games.

As nobody posted it yet. Greece was #40 on the latest ranking that was released on June 1st. Next release: July 6th.

A win is a win. Congratz.

The season tickets will be on sale from July 3rd. Don't expect we will sell a lot of them as we have a 7 game ban (kekleismenin thiron). Or the price should be 50% cheaper than regular.

Christian Noboa is leaving FK Rostov and moves to Zenit St. Petersburg to join Robert Mak.

Kace played only the first half against Luxemburg. HT 0-0. FT 2-1 loss.

The girls won the double, smashing their opponents 0-7 (HT 0-5). Here is the whole match:

Sergio Conceicao will be the new coach of FC Porto. Porto will pay his former club, FC Nantes, 3 mil plus two players from their youthacademies.

You just beated me by some seconds. That's why you are the King ...

HT 2-0. Joao Mourinho scored both goals.

Georgi Milanov of CSKA Moscow, a 25-year old midfielder can be added to the list of players we are (so called?) interested in. He is originally from Litex Lovech and was one year loaned to Swiss side Grasshopper. He has 37 caps for Bulgaria.

The non-internationals have holiday till June 21st when they are expected to be back in Thessaloniki. July 2nd our club will travel to Horst and July 16th they will be heading back to Greece. EL Q3-leg 1 will be July 27th.

Werder Bremen offered us 5 mil. 5 ain't 6 so we must refuse till they offer > 6 mil.

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