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I wish they would bring in a big name experienced coach but like u said that most likely wont happen. I have a lot of respect for Santos and what he did for the Ethniki. He was with in penalties off taking Greece to the quarter finals of the wcup! He had a great record and the defensive pieces to play his style of football. I have a feeling they will go with a Donis or Dellas but I am seeing on some sites that EPO want a foreigner. Anyways JVS started brightly but his questionable player selections & tactics screwed us. 6pts dropped in games we were leading in the 2nd half to Kosovo & Georgia (who are an up and coming side)would have taken us over Sweden. Just pisses me off seeing Sweden in the playoff draw today and they avoided Italy and Portugal.

I heard they are waiting to see if Portugal fail to qualify and they would then give the job to Santos. In March EPO are working on playing a friendly match with Germany. Maybe they will go with one of the other candidates, will see.

JVS knew he was not going to get a renewal so he tried to save face by leaving. Anyways @J1078 who do you think we will get as coach. Who do you like out of the names that have been mentioned.

Portugal and Italy look like they will face each other in their World Cup playoff path. So Santos might be coming back

JVS is not a bad guy he made to many blunders with the Ethniki and did not learn from them. As for corruption Canadians and the CSA are shady as well. Kick backs and bribes they are the same s%$#!. You mentioned Croatia they are a small country but they have an abundance of talent but corrupt too. As for Canada smoking us lol maybe at shinny. Lets see them play Spain and how many goals they eat.

Good, EPO took along time they should have let him go right after the Kosovo disaster.

Bravo Olympiakos big win! Beating the Turks again! Still a chance at top spot in the group..

Get the WIN OLY!!!

FT 0 - 0 PAOK had chances at the end of the match couldn’t cue up a good shot

Swiderski shot wide of the target

Ya for sure. PAOK need to take chances

What’s with the field in Slovakia? Looks like the disgraceful pitch in Edmonton where Canada played Mexico.

Ok thanks found one on Jokerlivestream

Any good Links? Thanks

The EPO will have their dirty hands on the team if they keep JVS or hire another lower end coach like him. If they somehow give the job to Santos we all know he won’t put up with their ways. Santos and Otto ran the NT there way with no interference from EPO and we saw the incredible results we had for over a decade.

I thought I had posted this under the NT coaches thread. Can someone please move it there. Thanks..

EPO really want Santos back. Maybe they appoint an interim coach until March when wcup playoffs have concluded. Donis, Dellas and Valverde are on their wish list as well. JVS tenure with the Ethniki looks all but done.

According to Sportime Mark Wilmots was interested in the Ethniki job but EPO has since moved on from him. Personally I would not have wanted him at the helm he failed with a stacked Belgium side at Euro 2016. Also Mark Hughes the Welsh manager is now being considered. He last managed Southampton. Any thoughts on him?

As a neutral it was an entertaining derby and not dirty. The AEK defender pass back directly to El arabi was what put the game out of reach. Beautiful volley goal from Araujo it was a stunner. Mantalos had a good game overall but where has that been lately when he plays for the Ethniki?

They have improved for sure it also helps playing in CONCACAF region although with many lightweights I will say the USA have a very good side. Mexico are decent but nowhere near a top 10 team especially the last year or so they are struggling. Greece has it tougher having to play world class teams in recent qualifying like Spain, Belgium, and Italy for example and even the Sweden, Holland and Swiss of the world and we have gotten results of most of these teams. We just hurt ourselves with stupid tactics and players selections and having players being played out of their natural positions. JVS had us playing nice attacking football when he came in the Euro qualifiers and in the friendlies. Greece were playing a lot of one twos and quick passes and creating many quality efforts around goal. I saw for this campaign that we only managed like 22 shots on target tying us in that department with Andorra? JVS went away from his high tempo attacking play except for the game vs Sweden in Athens and that 1st half in Sweden were we looked very dangerous. As I have said we need to just move on from him he has shown he is to stubborn to learn from his mistakes and we have no wiggle room to flop in the NL.

Looking at the rankings we are behind the likes of Canada, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Ireland and N Ireland absolutely disgraceful. JVS could only muster 2 draws vs Kosovo in world cup qualifiers. After this FIFA rankings release he should just say thank you for the opportunity that was given to him and walk out the door. Enough!

JVS screwed us with that Kosovo draw, similar to coach Ange when Greece lost to Estonia in that NL match and that result costed us a Euro playoff spot. Now it looks like we are a Pot 4 team.

Rankings are out and we are down to 55th behind likes of Mali and Qatar. JVS messed us up big time with that draw to Kosovo. JVS OUT!! EXO!

Greece down to 55

That's a good point we don't have those top class defenders now some of which are banned from the team. I also would like to see us playing a more attacking style of football at the end of the day though if we could go back to the Otto & Santos days were we won games 1nil and regularly qualified for tournaments I would take that right away. I personally would like Donis, Valverde, and Santos out of the names that have been thrown around. They better just get the right coach this time it wont be easy to make the Euros especially if we are in Pot 4. Greece need to make sure they take top place in their NL group to have a potential playoff spot at our disposal should we need it.