paokarag4
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Vlachodimos moves to Nottingham Forrest on a 4-year contract. He will be the fourth Greek international playing in the Premier League this season.
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I am a fan of Poyet and what he's doing with the Ethniki, but there are 3-4 of these call-ups that are puzzling. Bouchalakis and Limnios have not played one minute of football in the first month of the season, yet they are un-droppable. While Alexandropoulos and Konstantelias are not called-up.
Tzavellas he wants for experience(dressing room etc), but seems like he's played one out of three for a newly promoted side in Turkey, not exactly inspiring form.
Poyet is trying to do what Otto and Santos did before him, have a 'club' like feel to the NT where it's the same core of players that are called-up. While that has some merit it can also lead to disharmony amongst players/coaches/fans.
Ultimately if we get results people will forget about these decisions, but if you add the layer of Fortounis stepping away the media and football public are starting to slowly starting to turn on Poyet. The atmosphere around the team had been so positive because of great results, hopefully this doesn't throw too much of a spanner into the works and the team can keep chugging along.
You can guarantee if we come out of the 2 games next week with 4 points, everyone will be singing his praises. Let's see what happens.
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A reporter from Sport24 is reporting that Fortounis is retiring from the national team effective immediately. Not too many details but apparently Fortounis will address the issue publicly.
I dare say he wasn't called up again for these qualifiers and decided he no longer wants to be available to play for the NT. I am just guessing though, so who knows.
https://www.sport24.gr/football/telos-o-fortoynis-apo-tin-ethniki-omada.10164092.html
EDIT: Fortounis has confirmed via a post on his Instagram that he is stepping down from the Ethniki. Saying he wants to focus on his club football and wishing the NT all the best for the future.
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I think it's a fair comparison, they have a similar build and play style. Based off the highlights I saw (which never tell the full story) Marcos Antonio seems to be more talented and more technically gifted. We won't know until we see him in action for us, so let's see what he's got.
Think we are pretty well loaded up in central midfield now, Schwab, Tsingaras, Marcos Antonio, Ozdoyev, Meite and Felipe Soares who is currently injured.
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4 hours ago, Dutch Eagle said:
Tsitsipas is seeded #7 and faces Canadian Milos Raonic in R1.
And he cruises into the 2nd round with an impressive 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win. Next up he'll face Swiss qualifier Stricker.
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21 hours ago, pash said:
I legitimately cannot even follow this chain of events. Wild.
https://inpaok.com/785795/den-vazei-myalo-o-ouarnta/
I hope when he retires - be it now, in a year, or in ten years - that some intrepid scholar like Blackhawk will have a book ready for us on this kid's life story.
Our boy @PaokCT will do it, Warda is his golden boy!!
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If Ozdoyev isn't allowed into the country (crazy typing that), then we become even thinner than we currently are in midfield.
Clearly Schwab will start and Tsiggaras will have to play through gritted teeth. Probably means Giaxis will get a run off the bench too.
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Looks like Samata's scans were clear and he has escaped without doing anything serious. He will be monitored day-to-day and is a chance to be fit against Hearts this week.
Even if he misses the first leg, massive relief that he hasn't suffered a long term injury.
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Nevermind, he's failed his medical and now the move looks to be in doubt.
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Looks like he's on his way back to the Premier League to join West Ham.
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Was heavily linked to Trabzonspor to join Bakasetas and Kourbelis. Last I heard he was travelling to Turkey, that was last week sometime but no announcement since.
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He joins Goutas at Cardiff City and will play in the Championship after signing a 3-year contract.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/manolis-siopis-bluebird
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Wow no Lyratzis in the squad despite Sastre not being deemed fit enough to travel to Croatia. Writing on the wall for Lyratzis? Unless we have a few injuries at right-back, looks like it'll be tough for him to find his way back into the team.
EDIT: Just realising that maybe Lyratzis is the one who's been dropped from the European list to make way for Ozdoev? Either he or Nasberg potentially given they are the ones left out. Unless they've replaced Augusto, knowing that the deal is just about done.
If it was Lyratzis who was left out, maybe not so doom and gloom for his short term future at the club.
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Give us the winner of Celije-Grodno or Rosenborg-Hearts please.
Honestly being seeded really gives no massive advantage it seems, there are some tricky potential ties in there. We always seem to get put in a tough mini-pot.
Anyway Hajduk first before we worry about the next round I suppose.
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On 8/6/2023 at 8:48 AM, Athens4 said:
My eyesight isn't great but I didn't see Augusto in the latest training video.
He was in today's training video, you can see him in the drill at 57 seconds. Guess the sale isn't official yet, despite Ozdoyev arriving in Thessaloniki last night.
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TBH I have never seen anything that gets me excited about either Michalidis or Koulierakis for that matter. Now Koulierakis is only 19, so he has a lot of development in him and it's not easy to play consistent senior football at 18-19 as he did last season. He can and may well improve into a quality player, he has some good tools that he is developing.
Michalidis at 23, I think we can a bit more of a judgement on. Yes he missed a whole season with the ACL injury but as NB points out, pre-injury I too thought he was average. Not overly pacey or a good reader of the play, would dive in and make challenges when there is no need, giving away silly fouls and picking up unnecessary cards. The one thing he has going for him is his passing ability as a defender, he's more than capable of playing a 40-50 yard ball to a teammate.
I hope he proves me wrong this year, but I don't see Michalidis ever being nailed on starter for PAOK.
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Tzolis on his way to Fortuna Dusseldorf in Germany's 2nd tier for this season. Agreement is a one-year loan with an obligation to buy if they seal promotion to the Bundesliga. The buy-out clause sits at 6milion Euros, reportedly.
Germany should've been his first move when leaving PAOK, but he chose the bright lights of the Premier League which has traditionally been tough for Greek players to acclimatize to especially at such a young age.
Hopefully his development hasn't been stunted by the previous 2 years and he can continue to grow and become the player he is capable of being.
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I disagree Lucsecu is a good coach if he has the team that he wants, he is a proven performer. In his 2 seasons back at the helm, he's had us in a tittle race (within 5-7 points) in the playoffs when we had no right to be. The team ultimately fell away due to lack of depth.
He's guided us 2 Cup finals (yes last years final was an awful display) and let's not forget guided us to the quarter finals of a European competition.
He's been asking for a dekari since 2021, the board/Savvidis hasn't signed him one. Only once Konstantelias arrived as a player and the signing of a 35-year-old Taison was that issue addressed. A whole 18 months since Lucescu first arrived.
The team has been aging and has been in need of a revamp for a while. The signings we make have been hit and miss, the good ones (Narey, Kotarski) are out weighed by poor ones Nasberg, Qualigata, Kargas, Andre Ricardo, Filpe Soares (for the 3 million that was played he hasn't showed enough).
Add to that the average ones: Thomas, Sastre, Kedziora, who aren't bad players but really should only be depth, they are okay/average players. Instead these guys are starters.
The further layer is that AEK, and to a lesser extent PAO are splashing $ for signings which has improved their level considerably. Those teams have depth, in just about every position. We do not have the same quality. So for me the board and Savvidis hasn't helped Lucescu, so not sure turning over the manager will yield greatly different results. In fact I would say it would get worse, before it got better.
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Would be a good addition to our midfield. Realistically though with the landscape in Greek football, someone who played for Aris and Olympiakos would never come to PAOK.
Add to that the fact that he's reportedly currently on over 1 million Euros, can't see any Greek team paying him that sort of money to tempt him to walk away from his current deal.
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Pick out the one time we had an okay draw, despite yourself mentioning we had to come through Benfica and Besiktas before that to get to Krasnador. Who that season was a top 3 Russian team, not like we 'blew it' to Shamrock Rovers.
Regardless atm we are a long way from the bright lights of the Champions League, and face a couple of tricky ties to get the Conference League group stage.
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FFS we really are cursed when it comes to European draws. By far the hardest possible opponent in our pot. We will also cross paths with Marko Livaja (formerly of AEK) who has ridiculously good scoring record since moving back to Croatia.
But of course as Athens points out, it won't matter unless we find a way to get past Beitar. One game at a time, but I am cursing our luck.
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Rumours continue to surface about Narey and his agents pushing for a move. Remains to be seen whether he legit wants to move on, or if it's just some negotiating tactics to get us to give him a fatter pay cheque.
Would be a blow if he were to leave and would leave us scrambling to replace another starter.
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I remember Baba as being a solid player. Not sure there is an obvious starter between he and Rafa. I think it gives us a good depth at left-back, even though we are still crying out for a striker.
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Goutas moves from Turkey to England to play for Cardiff City in the Championship! He signed a 2 year deal until 2025.
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Pantelis Hatzidiakos ‒ Cagliari
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He has signed with newly promoted Cagliari to play in the Serie A. They are managed by Claudio Ranieri. Reported transfer fee is only 2 million Euros, because he was in the final year of his contract.