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he's already better than some tzavellas/koutroubis/kolovetsios yet he's getting ignored even in the u21 squad.

btw diamantakos is a bench warmer in one of the worst teams in gemrany's SECOND divisiobn, vellios last time played an official game was back IN AUGUST and that's not because of some injury, gianniotas is NOT a difference maker in mid table spanish SECOND division side, tziolis plays in the WORST team in SAUDI ARABIA, maniatis and tzavellas play in a mid table TURKISH team. yet all of them make the squad no matter what. none of you should demand a place in the world cup with these BUSTS around.

Samaris is usually the first sub for Benfica, if not starting. Better straight your facts before such claims.

What's going on with Fetfatzidis obsession? You people seem like still living in 2011. He is NOT a talent anymore. He's 27. And for the past 2 years he's been playing in Saudi Arabia. That says a lot. End of discussion.

he's an ok player to be around, way better than tziolis and maniatis. he's having a great season so far.

Charisis scored for sint Truiden in Belgium..

that's true, skibbe was constantly calling up vellios and diamantakos, while mitroglou and donis were already there like there's any need to have 4-5 strikers in the squad!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have said before since our wingers are not of high level we can play with full backs. that's the only way i can see us playing effectively instead of trying non natural wingers around.

so skibbe is talking about playing time while he's the one who selects the players? what an idiot. also why would someone ask him about fetfatzidis? if anything, people should ask fetfatzidis why he's playing in the saudi arabian league. not even close to nt material.

i do agree about the last sentence first of all. tachtsidis wanted to move to greece for personal reasons. and i also rate olympiakos higher than calgiari where he was playing so nothing wrong with that. also one of the reasons why im sick with olympiakos is because they don't play kapino. instead they start a 35yo silvio proto. what's the benefit on that? football department has made me sick over the years with such decisions. i hope kapino moves to udinese that were targeting him on summer but olympiakos rejected their offer. also karnezis moved to watford because udinese decided to invest on a project. he's on loan there so he will be back on summer. but i'd rather have napoli which were also interested in him. sucks that he's out of form now.

nah i don't think kolovos has to be there. he simply doesn't cut it. but i agree about charisis and im looking forward to watch him either with paok next year or with sint truiden if they decide to use his buy out clause.

i have posted before my ideal squad and the player pool. here it is in case you missed it. gks; karnezis, kapino, anestis, vlachodimos(?), gianniotis side backs; torosidis, stafylidis, lykogiannis, mpakakis, koutris centre backs; sokratis, manolas, papadopoulos, retsos, siovas, oikonomou dmfs; samaris, tachtsidis, kourmpelis, zeca, petsos amfs; fortounis, mantalos, pelkas, mpakasetas sts; mitroglou, donis, karelis, lazaros these are the players that can contribue at the moment. the rest have not proved it yet. most of them will be around post 2020.

so you really think that mavrias, vellios, diamantakos and other busts along with u-21 players can make a case in that short period of time? no sorry.

talking about petsos..he got a red card today and cost his team's victory.

he's an irregular starter in rapid wien, where's he's been playing on loan from werder. i don't get why maniatis and tziolis are getting picked over him, probably another skibbe's stupidity.

its fairly impossible to go wit some of these names above with the qualification starting in 9 months.

i have said before the only reason why i pick 5-6 cbs is because in my books we're better with 3 cbs on defence. that system will hide our weakness in the wings.

karnezis sokratis manolas retsos torosidis samaris zeca stafylidis fortounis donis mitroglou subs; kapino, anestis papadopoulos siovas oikonomou lykogiannis kourmpelis tachtsidis mpakakis/koutris mantalos/pelkas karelis lazaros/mpakasetas

he has not played well with bologna overall. several injuries and red cards. probably heading back to olympiakos on january..

he did play 3 cbs in the away game against croatia but it was doomed to fail with maniatis as a full back(..), tzavellas as a cb(..) and tziolis in the midfield(..) sokratis-manolas-retsos can be great, with stafylidis and lykogiannis being our full backs, samaris and zeca in the midfield, fortounis ahead of them and mitroglou with donis up front.

let's be real for once and stop hating on samaris. also him and siopis are not the same kind of player. samaris is an '8' while siopis is a '6'. and our '8' options are samaris and tachtsidis, while our '6' options are zeca and kourmpelis. my formation is based on a 3-man defence so 5 cbs is a fair amount, as well as the side backs. gianniotas is not included in my squad, simply because there's no room for him. 3-4-1-2 is one of the best formations for this team because it allows us to utilize our weapons (depth at cb, both mitroglou and donis in the line-up) and also minimizes the lack of wingers we have. so in order not to play mantalos, stafylidis or zeca out of position we're starting 2 full backs, a position where we also have depth. galanopoulos it's still too early to consider, while as much as i think charisis could be proved useful i'd like to see what he's able to do with paok in a higher level than sint truiden, his team in belgium

id like to have siovas around but with this idiot i think kolovetsios will be getting called up instead. also we're going to fill the midfield with USELESS defensive midfielders like maniatis and tziolis while pelkas will be getting ignored and as usual along with our lethargic 4-2-3-1 there's nobody who can carry the ball on. also vellios and diamantakos, 2 strikers worse than our super league ones with no playing time in their clubs and an awful goal/caps ratio, will be locks as well as tzavellas over koutris. that's what skibbe means. but epo couldn't realise it. happy failure and καλη δυναμη to all of us.

forget about cholebas and fetfatzidis. the first decided to retire because of skibbe and the latter choose to play football in saudi arabia. i posted what our 23-man squad should be going on to the euros. goalkeepers; karnezis, kapino, anestis side backs; torosidis, stafylidis, lykogiannis, koutris center backs; sokratis, manolas, retsos, papadopoulos, mpakakis midfielders; samaris, kourmpelis, tachtsidis, zeca, fortounis, mantalos, pelkas attackers; mitroglou, donis, karelis, lazaros the best i can think at the moment.

they say kone had an ok game with aek yesterday. if he keeps his form he'd be an ok temporary solution but i don't see it. he is not the player he used to be 3 years ago.

no we don't lack midfielders. samaris, kourmpelis, zeca, tachtsidis are all better than him. however there's a thing going on on the locker room that is called κλίκα. that thing includes tzavellas, tziolis, maniatis as well as some paul koutsoliakos agents like diamantakos or guys that don't even play in their teams like vellios and gianniotas. i mean it became even more obvious when they players!! that don't deserve to get called up, asked from epo to keep skibbe. and then you wonder what's going on.

please stop with fetfatzidis really. b division players in greece would be better than him atm. btw do you realize he's 27? already wasted 2 of his peaking years in saudi arabia. speaks volumes.