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The Norwich manager is probably disillusioned with how good his squad is. They were up against Manchester City, who had one on the most expensive starting XI's ever playing. It's been a baptism of fire for Norwich and Giannoulis playing Liverpool and City first up. I saw enough in the first game where I thought he'll be okay in the Premier League, we'll see. Norwich signed another left-back overnight a loanee from Manchester United.

Seems we are going the loan route for these final few transfers, Akpom seems to be a lock and apparently Sidcley a left-back from Dynamo Kiev (who Lucescu's father is the coach of) is the favourtie atm to come in. We have been linked with about 3-4 different left-backs of the summer so take it with a grain of salt. The final piece of the puzzle looks like its going to be Aexandru Mitrita, a Romanian winger who currently plays for New York City in the MLS. Far from the sexiest names but at this point anything is better than nothing, we need to cover these holes and in time we'll get to see the quality of the players. We still await to see if Giovinco reemerges as a possibility for the no.10 position, or if another player surfaces as a possibility. Whatever happens, it seems it's going to be a busy few days.

Great game from Tsimikas as he grabbed an assist in Liverpool's 2-0 win against Burnley. Cut out all the mistakes from last week and was quite solid defensively. He was named man of the match! The bad news for him is that Robertson is fit again (he was on the bench) and will probably take his spot in the starting XI next weekend against Chelsea. Regardless Tsimikas has shown Klopp he can trust him and use him more often this season, I suspect he will see more game-time this season.

Tough game for him against Manchester City, Norwich lost 5-0 and Giannoulis was subbed of at half-time with the score at 2-0. His coach said later on he was struggling with the level of City and they took him off to protect him. It'll be interesting to see what affect that half has on his standing within the team. Hopefully he starts next weekend. https://www.sport24.gr/football/farke-gia-giannoyli-den-ithela-na-ton-ntropiaso-einai-proti-fora-poy-paizei-se-ayto-to-epipedo.9330374.html

File do you genuinely believe we didn't deserve that title? A team that didn't lose a league game all season, a team that just fell short the season before (not because they weren't good enough but due to other stupidity)

Agree, the type to be given a gold crown and complain that it's too heavy. I honestly think the ultras/organised fans are kind of missing being heralded as heroes when they used to "stand up" to those dirty and corrupt presidents we had in the past. Back then they would demand action and chase these people (or try to) out of the club. Now with a president who actually pays and has brought success there is no real reason to go after the president, but they are trying to manufacture one IMO. The club has made mistakes, we have had a few poor summers in a row in terms of transfers no doubt. But the reality is Ivan has saved our club as you have pointed out Bananas. PAOK has never had a president who has sunk so much money into the club, yet as you point out people exist who won't ever be satisfied.

Huh? Stay off the Athenian news cycle file, not sure that has been reported by any reliable source. I have heard we were interested in Valverde but as to why he didn't come who cares, we got a legendary coach back instead. Just out of curiosity are you anti-Savvidis? You seem hellbent on airing any dirty laundry he may have and belittling his massive achievements with PAOK.

Good to see you have moved on and aren't holding onto any grudges 😜

If there is any silver lining with that decision, its that it gives us some more time to get our house in order and sign these players that we so desperately need to. With only one weekend between the postponement and the break for the national teams, who knows if we actually see any domestic football before the international break.

Game will be on PAOKTV for free, for those of us outside Greece, Cyprus and Croatia. https://www.paokfc.gr/nea/20210817-to-paok-rijeka-zontana-sto-paok-tv/

Played well I thought. Looked a lot more assured on the ball than his fellow left back Tsimikas on the opposite side. Showed his trademark pace when he broke forward and always looked dangerous in attack. Dealt with Salah relatively okay, despite this Salah ends up man of the match with 2 assists and a goal, sometimes the opposition is just too good🤷‍♂️ He clearly tired in the 2nd half, and that is his challenge, at this level the top players stay dangerous for 90 mins you need to be able to have the legs to go with them. Overall I thought he had a slightly better match than Tsimikas, but both can hold their head high. Ultimately having this type of competition is a good thing, we have 2 left-backs playing in the Premier League and both didn't look out of place.

To me he seemed nervous and made a few mistakes on the ball where he took too long and was caught in possession. Was okay but will need to clean up the errors against better opposition he will be punished, something I think he is capable of doing.

Jesus we need to sign another striker even if it's on loan. Can't see Swiderski and Koutsias (who isn't ready really for first team football) carrying the load.

Ultras not happy with management? What else is new

If we were a little more focused we could and should have scored more, there where plenty of goals we left on the table. Unfortunately we were a little too relaxed at times in attack and blew some big chances. We were the better team, but got lucky our sloppiness should've cost us a goal at the end. Improvement needed to get through Rijeka-Hibernian

Bieseswar having a laugh out there! 2-0

We are being lazy defensively, wingers and mids have been slow to track back when Bohemians have had possession. We need a 2nd goal asap

GOAL!!! SCHWAB! Nice ball from Bieseswar

Bieseswar with the start over Kagawa. I like that he has backed in Michalidis despite his error in the first leg, despite Crespo being included in the squad. EDIT: piss off pash, let me post starting XI for once!!!!!!!!!!!😘

FPL (at the bottom right of the screenshot) refers to fantasy Premier League, that is how much Tzolis costs if you want him in your fantasy team!

You got your wish! Tzolis is flying out to complete the transfer, we've seen him for the final time in a PAOK shirt. It's a shame he never got to play in-front of fans at Toumba. Wish the kid all the best, not sure England and the Premier League is the right move for him at this stage but he'll get plenty of development and hopefully plenty of game time.

All the noise coming out from reports is that sooner or later, either in 2 days or 2 weeks we will sell Tzolis. Seems to me we are waiting for the 2nd leg of the Bohemians match until we accept the offer, similar to Akpom last year where we held out until after the Benfica game.

Baba would be a great signing and would slot in as a starter. The question I have is will Vierinha accept being relegated to 2nd choice left-back. At 35 it's clear he can't start and play 85% of games as a full-back he simply doesn't have the legs to get up and down the pitch for 90 mins. He still has quality and will be useful coming off the bench and pinch-hitting in games where we will boss possession, but I do worry about him starting in derbies(and in Europe hopefully) against good wingers.