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Why are we implying that Vellios was running though ? Both MItro and Vellios are a same type of striker.

Lazaros is a joke. Fetfa , Taxi no proper AMs. Fortounis > Mantalos > Pelkas = Kone > Ninis right now However I ve said this before. Paok has ulilized Pelkas as a Right winger a lot lately. saw them do that in many matches during the play offs. - - - - - - Mitroglou- - - - - - - -Karelis- - - - - - - - -Pelkas- - - - - - -Fortounis- - - - - - - this attack could be decent if we desperatelly need wingers. Otherwise, as I proposed earlier. we cold have something without wings like this: - - -Karelis- - -Mitroglou- - - - - Fortounis - - Mantalos - -

You got it all wrong by the way. Fortounis has played winger at the past but as a Left one. Pelkas and Bakasetas could be used as Right Wingers. But Fortounis is a much better AM than mandalos. both can play if we have one forward only. but id prefer both karelis and mitro up on the front.

I was talking for their National League not their National Team.

Well i ve just noticed the bloopers but the players really seem bad. The stadiums are huge and almost always full and yet they dont seem to be able to attract better players or interest for the game. Aus seems like USA #2. Noone cares for football that they even renamed it

He probably wanted to bad to score against us.

Taking a close look at the A-League bloopers is htereason why someone taking a signing at europe gets called up suddently. Thats amateur football at ite finest. Apart from 3-4 big names over 34 who decided to spend 10 months in Australia just to see how it looks like, the rest can't seem to understand how important the difference of a good/bad pass is. Also their goalkeepers seem very trashy. A-League should be rated between our

They dont really have the idea of how 2nd or maybe even 3rd tier team they are. Our C team won them, our C team should have drawn them. My prediction about 1 win for each team is confirmed. with same goals aggr as well. However Jedinak , Milligan , Mooy and Cahill would be starters in lots of 2nd tier teams of Europe , like Romania , Poland , Turkey. The reason that the Australians feel so devastated losing to Greece is because they are used to success. Champions of the AFC pretty easily , against garbage teams. The fact that they are in such an easy continent allowes them to participate in every WC without even trying. Another comment that some people might disagree with me. This Australian team is nothing less than Iceland , Romania, N. Irland. They are better than Hungary, Finland Luxembourg and Faroe Isles. This proves that we could and should not only have won those matches , but also dominated them as we did vs Australia. I just hope these 2 years that passed the only problem was the mentality and not an impressive loss in talent and excitement for the NT. If it isnt just focus on Basketball :P

They cant stay for 3 tournaments together. that is a 6 year gap from 2018 and thats IF we qualify :P. this team I mentioned has a 3-4 years lifespan and then new ones are going to be needed.

Bakasetas played in a decent team his season , full of players who eventually got attention from bigger teams , like Siopis. Ansarifard , Boumal and Chatziisaias. Its pretty easier to appear more , when the whole squad is levels higher. Vellios has had interest from Everton , I dont think he could be a flop with correct guidance in his career.

I dont remember if it was posted in this thread or another one , but lets not make fast consumptions over Maniatis. The main reason this dude was a starter , and undoubtfully worthy starter , before 2015 was his durability and sustainability. He is like a Kante

"No coach drops a player because they missed a penalty." :P :P :P

You guys are actually right. I overdid it. Besides i can't fully realise your POV. The fact taht this forum has so many Greeks of Australia shows how passionate you guys are about the NT.

Apparently theres probably something to be done, like throwing the blame on the manager. Besides, they are the ones who get the call-ups and inform their players. If he didn't know his shiet, or just used the national teams to give attention to his player *WOOOOW a guy wanted by both Australia and Greek NT must be good!!!*. Apparently the fish fell for it and he got a shiny move to china.

The points from Turkey draw were lost because Giannou was ineligible. Also it doesnt have to be us playing a game. We played nothing in May while lots of teams played friendlies pre- Euro and pro-Copa America , so someone must have surpassed us.

"They dont come here every year." Of course they dont. its a day's trip. The only reason they came is probably due to the economical situation, the only possible fans that we ll get in the next World Cup will be from outside Greece. Probably same thing happened at WC Brazil as well. Besides Australia was pretty close. They need to keep their fans and followers happy. But so much money for a C Greek team is a rip off. They no longer are a top 10 European Nation (neither at ranking and probably neither at reality) so they shouldn't think of themselves as such.

And I wasnt trying to point out that you guys are stupid an thats why you dont know how things run at Greece. The difference is that we live these things every day and they ve literally become part of our daily routine. Everywhere , Media, between people , such things are discussed. I doubt such a thing happens in Australia.

You think Australia is the only one getting money from these friendlies ? They decided it together and a portion of the winnings goes to the Greek EPO. According to this comment you clearly do not exactly know how corrupted the Greek Association is , despite not living under a rock.

People blaming a guy not falling for this scum in this forum? This is so funny. You guys dont live in Greece to know from up-close how corrupt the Greek football federation is. AusGreek I wouldn't go either. I heard how ridiculous the prices are , however im not familiar with the average income of an Australian so I can't connect them. Yet the numbers seemed to big for a friendly match between the b-teams of Greece and Australia.

I just remembered we ll be facing holland , so we have 2 strong friendlies with teams that will Qualify for the WC (RUS and NED). wouldnt mind him testing the players there, but if we lose (because the NED team skill level is much higher than ours) it might be a mind game for the players...

Our best players didnt come because skibbe has nothing to see from them. He knows them and he will probably test our players in the last 2 friendlies with russia and someone else too if i remember correctly. However , If I were him i would have tried to bring almost all of them for the 2nd friendly , to see if the X1 i have in mind actually works with a *considered* decent opponent. Australia's usual team is a good team. A team that qualifies for the World cups every time (thats not hard to be fiar but here comes the next part): usually manages to play ncie football , like vs spain. wouldnt grade their first X1 anything less than bosnia. in fact their defence is beyond classes higher than the bosnian defenders. Skibbe might have wasted his prelast friendly by looking for players to fill his team.

To be honest after rithinking , since we have no wingers 3CBs would be a totally legit system with Holeba and Torosidis as midfielders who can eitherp lay too denfensively or offensively based on the score and if goal/defence is needed. - - - - - - - - - -Karnezis - - - - - - - - - - - -Manolas-Kyriakos-Sokratis - - - - - - - - - - - - -Tachtsidis - - - - - - - - - Torosidis - - - - - - - - - - - - - Holebas - - - - - -Samaris- - -Kone- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fortounis - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Mitroglou - - - - - - - - - - This is a quite good defensive system I think.

Samaris shows the aesthetics of a greek boy. That babyface and that boy-at-his-teens body shows it. He playes at one of the top 10 clubs worldwide. He can be used as a Center Back , a 6 and an 8. These are the reasons he gets picked. He is also good, might not be a "top 10 clubs" starter but he is a champions league material. Our only midfielders whose performances havent really changed from when this hell started. Tachtsidis seems nowhere. Our only efficient midfielders are Fortounis and Samaris right now. Anyways summing up where we have problems isthis X1 Karnezis Torosidis-Sokratis-Manolas-Holebas ------------------???----------------------- -------------Samaris----???------------- --------------Fortounis-------------------- -------Mitroglou-Karelis----------------- Would love a 3CB system but if the 3rd one isnt K. Papadopoulos : Siovas, Vydra, Oikonomou, Tzavellas, Moras dont really cut it. They ve proven that quite a few times. who would be the question marks in your opinion ? Kone and Tachtsidis ?

Nah... Marketing is also a matter that they have to take into account. Hummels will sell , Sokratis wont. And thats because we re talking about Germany. I said about his career in Germany and with the current economic situation between the 2 countries. You mentioning Man Utd and Liverpool is totally off point.

The reason he is Greek is in fact a drawback for him in Bundesliga. I dont rate him any less than Hummels and yet Bayern bought the German one. To be fair, who would buy a Shirt with the name Sokratis on it ?