The PAOK Gazette
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at PAOK
Andrews Tetteh and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad31 May 2027
PAOK lose Baba Rahman
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad31 May 2027
Kiril Despodov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market31 May 2027
Theodoros Tzolis steps up from the PAOK academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Theodoros Tzolis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market31 May 2027
One of our own: Thanasis Siovas joins the PAOK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thanasis Siovas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market31 May 2027
Evangelos Bakasetas steps up from the PAOK academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Evangelos Bakasetas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market31 May 2027
Anastasios Androutsos steps up from the PAOK academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anastasios Androutsos has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout31 May 2027
Magomed Ozdoev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at PAOK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout31 May 2027
The manager makes Jonjoe Kenny a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at PAOK. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Shola Shoretire’s exile
- The dugout Dimitris Berdos knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Andrews Tetteh