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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.

According to a Greek site JVS apparently told EPO that he would take a reduced salary to stay on as coach of the Ethniki. He is getting desperate. He looked like a lock to get a renewal but that Kosovo game looks to have opened up the eyes of the technical director and the higher ups in the EPO. It looks like EPO really want Santos but he has the playoffs with Portugal in March. It would be hard to see them not make it to the wcup but there is a chance they could be in the same path with Italy. Santos did say if he does not get the team to Qatar he will leave Portugal on his own.

They are a deranged bunch that is for sure. From the head coaching hires since Santos to not finding the NT a better stadium for years so Greece can gain a real home field advantage, to a host of other issues. Time for them to be shown the door.

I would take any over JVS especially Donis, Valverde, and Santos. I heard on the Hellas Footy podcast a long shot candidate could be Andre Pirlo. I personally cant see that happening.

They’re a disgrace. Now I heard on the Hellas footy podcast that UEFA are investigating them for fishy business in the Greek 2nd division.

No Greece would not have made it because we were in League C and Austria and Czech were in League B and their ranking is higher than ours and Slovenia who won our NL group. Austria finished 4th in there wcup qualifying group but still made the playoff.

yes for sure I have said that the NT should play somewhere else. EPO had said they would not play at OAKA for the Euro qualification and they were suppose to have the NT play in Crete. They still cant get the stadium issue sorted out.

I am going to listen to the show after. I enjoy it like the Gate 7 podcast. If we drop to Pot 4 because of that draw then that in itself is cause for JVS to be fired! I was worried about that during the game when Kosovo tied it up. Unbelievable!

For sure we had more fans than that and vs Spain it was more than 15 000 if we had gotten a result vs Sweden in October the crowd would have been much more than that as well.

I know my fried he did a great job with the NT. Had Greece won would have faced Holland close to a 50/50 game for a chance to play in the semi finals. I would have never believed after that game with Costa Rica we would have hit such lows. I was just thinking how amazing it was when we beat Romania and then the draw in Romania to qualify for the WCUP. Great memories!!

Agree with you, when we went down of a crap penalty call we should have looked to try and attack more but we kept giving the ball right back to Spain once we got it from them. To start the second half JVS subbed of Masouras our most dangerous player. JVS just looked like he was content with losing 1 nil instead of going all out to win the game.

Have to agree Santos won a Euro vs heavy favorites France in their country. With a good Portugal team but nothing like the star studded team they had when Greece beat them in 2004 or even their present day squad. Also his record with the Ethniki is incredible and as you said he got us far in the Euro 2012 and the last 16 of the World Cup. I would not mind Valverde he likes the possession based football with high press. He coached OLY and Barca of course so he is a step above JVS for sure. For me as I have said I would like Donis as a Greek who can speak to the players and he knows Greek football well. I think he would relish the chance of turning the Ethniki around and can bring along the younger players as he did when he was at PAO.

JVS and Project Qatar failed he said after the NL failure that he would ultimately be judged on wcup qualification. He failed miserably 5pts behind a Sweden team that was not that convincing. Greece had to make the playoffs in this group it was no where as difficult as the Italy/Switzerland group were Italy finished runner up. Its getting exhausting watching us fail yet again and seeing nothing football nations like Finland, Albania, and ffs even the Skopians making major tournaments and some of these countries now in the wcup playoffs too. Not only does JVS need to leave as he already should have after yet another draw vs Kosovo but so do the bums in the EPO who cant due there jobs and find a qualified coach to lead the NT and these same people who have left the NT way down on their agenda, they still haven't found the team a permanent stadium. They were suppose to have that done before the start of Euro 2020 qualification. The NT has to be the TOP priority! Greece have to be in World Cups and Euros. EPO needs to get down to work and make it happen enough of this s%$#!.