Hellas futebol

[RodriE]

Lescott to AEK... 

[Faliro]

And they lost Barbosa! 

[Covenant]

Samba --> Panathinaikos?

[Faliro]

Yes. There is a little economic difference, but everyone is still positive it will happen.

[Covenant]

Yes. There is a little economic difference, but everyone is still positive it will happen.

Panathinaikos will have the Heavyweight Championship with Samba.

[Faliro]

Looking at the teams, PAOK and PAO have both had the best transfer season. The Championship will be very hard fought and will as usual - be based around who the smaller teams can steal points from.

Kontonis (Communist Sports Minister) just cancelled the Cup. So now the League and the Cup have be cancelled. That means all 3 Greece's Europa's sides will be playing their first Europa League games without having played an official game in 3 weeks. Young Boys for example will have already played 7 league games when Olympiacos meet them.

[sbremoved_28408]

[Faliro]

Just so weird..

[Saveloy]

His career has been going downhill fast since he left Goodison,  I'll be surprised if he can make an impact in Greece.

[Covenant]

His career has been going downhill fast since he left Goodison,  I'll be surprised if he can make an impact in Greece.

Até least after that he won something.

[Saveloy]

His career has been going downhill fast since he left Goodison,  I'll be surprised if he can make an impact in Greece.

Até least after that he won something.

Sure, maybe I should have said "his football" instead of "his career", even at City he became a shadow of the player he once was.

[Faliro]

Something running parallel atm that perhaps may interest you. The communist Government of Greece has decided Greece only needs four television channels. So all the other channels (MEGA, STAR, SKAI, ALFA, etc) besides ERT, were told to apply and fight for one of the four licences. 

Because football is a representation of Greek life and economics - guess who has been bidding to own one of the channels? Marinakis, Alafouzos (already owns SKAI) and Savvidis! All the current TV channels will be dissolved by the Bolsheviks.

Interestingly - today - the potential channel owners had to go to the main meeting to decide who gets a licence to own a channel. Rumours are that Marinakis secured a licence for his new TV station he wants to start - 'Alta Ego.'

This is basically a war for who can control the media/news in Greece.

[T1n0_SLB]

Madness.

[Faliro]

So after all these millionaires being locked up in the bidding building - the four licences were finally given. Even the chief of SKAI said the process does not belong in civilised Europe. No one could leave the building for days and even police would accompany you to the toilet! It was literately a prison! The process was even more bizarre and the winning bids seemed unfair:

SKAI (Alafouzos) - 43.6 Million Euro over 56 rounds!!
Vladimiros Ioannis Kalogritsas - 52.6 Million Euro over 78 rounds
ANT1 - 75.9 million Euro over 99 rounds
Alter Ego (Marinakis) 73.9 million Euro over 117 rounds

So now Alpha, Star, Mega etc have 90 days do go off-air and make all their staff unemployed. A nasty view into a leftist distopian future.

Winning bids, notice Savvidis didn't make it either despite outbidding Alafouzos! 

Top row are those bidding, left-hand-side down is each auction - the winner in red!



Now here is what in interesting. Olympiacos used to be free to watch until ERT ceased to exist under the last Government. Now ERT is back but NOVA still have all Olympiacos's games. Marinakis will probably now seek to make his new channel have exclusive rights on Olympiacos games! Because these channels are (terrestrial) free - he may try and make Olympiacos games free for all of Greece - as it was before!!

[Cloughie]

In Portugal we need to pay more than 35 euros per month to watch Benfica (home and away).