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for once can the turks not be hostile? apparently not.

any chance they'll get Manolas too? he was in talks for arsenal as well...

that would give us nice wing options with donis laz and fetfa finally. mitro Donis Fetfa Laz Zeca Staf Kpaps Sokratis Manolas Bakakis Karnezis No brainer line up that I think even skibbe could think up

wow donis destroyed bayerns defense. 2 interceptions that lead to a goal and assist and then a cross that led to another goal (second assist in a way). bayern already won the title but they were playing a pretty fully line up.

started for Arsenal vs. Manchester United. Despite Arsenal losing 2-1 he was rated 8/10 and arsenal fans are praising him stating that he's a beast on multiple occasions. Beat Fellaini on a few headers + kept Lukaku in his pocket and nullified a lot of his contribution.

isn't mantalos still injured?

siovas in the team is fine but I'm not sure on his stance as an integral part of the backline. seems like coaches like to add their own unique touch come hell high water. Santos with Holebas/Katsouranis Skibbe with Tzavellas/Donis Rehhagel with Charisteas Alefantos would want Siovas and Holebas and he doesn't rate Staf. Staf definitely needs to be on the squad though.

skibbe to get sacked and alefantos NT coach! he'd bring holebas back fo sho. he favours siovas though which is questionable lol

Karelis Mitroglou Holebas Fortounis/donis Fetfa/Pelkas Tachtsi Zeca Sokratis Manolas Kpaps Karnezis 3-2-3-2 something like this would be good for qualifying campaigns. If we we win all the games against the minnows and not concede points to likes of estonia etc. then play defensively against big teams might be a nice formula. although tachtsi had bad friendlies I think on the left with a dynamic winger like holebas spraying passes on the left lane would be dangerous. Zeca can compensate for the whole that fetfa leaves.

predominately muslim. iran is not arab. they're persians and they speak farsi which is closer to Greek than Arabic linguistically as it's an Indo-European language. c'mon now lol. Egyptians aren't arabs either they're Egyptian and had their own language but were conquered by Arabs and took on the language. Before they used Coptic predominately. (Still used in the North where a lot are orthodox Christian)

barca probably wish they bought him earlier... he'll probably make a big in the summer after that... teams always wait till last minute when something big like this happens to make big signings.

siovas's team beat sevilla actually. When we played with him vs. Romania it was one of our all time best attacking performances too. Not sure how much I can attribute to him tho

interesting. I don't believe that though and it's not like olympiakos has been terrible they're just used to getting the title. they're only 1-2 games away from another title. I think the overdid it with the foreigners that don't bleed for the shirt. eg) seba seems like a bit of deadweight but keep playing him cuz of his brazilian pedigree whereas the olympiakos that I was jealous of as a pao fan was circa 2013 = samaris, mitroglou, manolas, holebas, fetfa + foreigners that played with pride = mirallas, dominguez, botia, roberto

fortounis is probably our best attacking midfielder though out of form. I would not count him out. he's a key player for olympiakos which hate or love it is a big side. (saying as a panathinaikos supporter) if a few inches were on his side he would have scored 2 goals vs. switzerland. I think he'll be back next season.

yeah apparently he's not in his best form like he was last season.

Samaris I think if he was in form and starting like he was in 2014-2015 than he would be good. Tachtsidis like Alefantos said might be only good for a team that's better than the opposition. Eg) Olympiakos vs. most superleague teams. he might be perfect that as his through balls and his lack of speed dont make a huge liability.

I'd do something like this rn Mitro/Karelis Donis Fetfa Pelkas zeca Staf Bakakis Sok Mano Ret/Kpaps Karnezis our dm options suck right now except for zeca but we're gifted at CB position so load that up and the extra cb can pick up the slack for the empty dm position. pelka and donis add pace to the wings and fetfa is a wild card at cam. staf and bakakis wingbacks are an extra double threat on the wings and again having 3atb will pick up the slack as these two are not as strong defensively. I'd much rather have holebas in there for staf though.

yeah key attacking figures for us also retired after our last good campaign world cup 2014 gekas, karagounis, samaras (not retired but made himself irrelevant), holebas, kats (even tho he overstayed his welcome)

holebas got better at defense before his exit from the NT tho.. he even plays cb for watford sometimes now but that's dead and gone. i think lb position maybe pends on our opposition. against minnows staf for extra attacking threat and against bigger teams maybe retsos?

ya and people were saying that bakakis is already too old at 26 and shouldn't start when i was saying we should play him LOL he brings much needed energy on the flank and staf is most definitely our starting lb since holebas is out

karelis, bakakis, staf, laz, and pelkas showed great hunger and urgency that has been lacking in our NT. add those to manolas + sokratis + retsos + zeca and we have a team of majority hustlers.

egypt is mostly a one man team with salah but still a win is a win and we weren't playing a bunch of our stars either

after egypt and swiss friendly i'm hoping we see maybe something like this mitroglou Laz fortounis Donis/pelkas kourbelis zeca staf sok man bakakis karnezis