The PAOK Gazette
Squad31 May 2027
Tempers go at PAOK
Baptiste Santamaria was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Loan watch31 May 2027
17 goals on loan for Fedor Chalov
33 appearances at Kayserispor and the goals keep coming. PAOK are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad31 May 2027
Jeremy Antonisse 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
One of our own: Efthymios Papanikolaou joins the PAOK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Efthymios Papanikolaou 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
Sotirios Androutsos steps up from the PAOK academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sotirios 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.
Market31 May 2027
One of our own: Stavros Vlachodimos joins the PAOK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stavros Vlachodimos 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
One of our own: Anastasios Kourbelis joins the PAOK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anastasios Kourbelis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout31 May 2027
Dimitris Giannoulis 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
Tom Louchet knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at PAOK, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Ognjen Ugrešić
- The dugout Thomas Murg has been promised minutes
- Squad Aritz Elustondo takes up the language