The PAOK Gazette
Market24 Aug 2026
Christos Zafeiris moves on
Racing Genk pay $13.4M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Santino Andino due for a PAOK medical
Everything agreed with Panathinaikos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No deal for Karim Konaté at that price
PAOK offered $7.7M; Red Bull Salzburg said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market24 Aug 2026
Not going: Giannis Michailidis stays at PAOK
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Teplice had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $13.4M sale of Christos Zafeiris
He is going to Racing Genk, the club has $13.4M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market24 Aug 2026
PAOK say no — this time
The offer from Pardubice for Pantelis Hatzidiakos was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
Baptiste Santamaria wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at PAOK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdellah Raihani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Pantelis Hatzidiakos goes back to face Panathinaikos
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Pantelis Hatzidiakos’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and PAOK needing him to play as if none of it matters.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Aritz Elustondo
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Panathinaikos at home
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Abdellah Raihani