Jul 8, 2010, 12:15 am
Panathinaikos, Unicaja Malaga, and Maccabi all want Ian Vougioukas. He will probably end up with Panathinaikos.
Nicholas should be announced soon back in PAO. Batiste also but will take a little longer
Saras will be offered 2 years at 700,000 euros a season.
http://www.sport.gr/default.asp?pid=4&aid=68899
That makes it sound like Saras won't be back in PAO, but they are not saying Spanoulis has left. From an inside source in Serbia (connection of of Ivkovic and Raznatovic) they say Spanoulis already agreed with Olympiacos today.
So I am pretty sure that Saras will be in PAO next year.
So PAO next year looks probably like so far:
PG Diamantidis/Calathes/Verginis
SG Nicholas/Jasikevicius
SF Perperoglou/Tepic
PF Fotsis/Tsartsaris/Bogris
C Batiste/Vougioukas/Shermadini
Backup PF still looks a little weak to me with how extremely injury prone Tsartsaris is. Backup SF could also be a big problem unless Tepic improves. But I think he will because he has all the talent. I would not trust Tsartsaris though. He's too injury prone.
They still need to add a good power forward. So I expect that once they get everyone re-signed they will add Kaimakoglou at PF and put Bogris on loan. If they can get that team above then ad Kaimakoglou they still have a stronger team than Olympiacos.
Nicholas should be announced soon back in PAO. Batiste also but will take a little longer
Saras will be offered 2 years at 700,000 euros a season.
http://www.sport.gr/default.asp?pid=4&aid=68899
That makes it sound like Saras won't be back in PAO, but they are not saying Spanoulis has left. From an inside source in Serbia (connection of of Ivkovic and Raznatovic) they say Spanoulis already agreed with Olympiacos today.
So I am pretty sure that Saras will be in PAO next year.
So PAO next year looks probably like so far:
PG Diamantidis/Calathes/Verginis
SG Nicholas/Jasikevicius
SF Perperoglou/Tepic
PF Fotsis/Tsartsaris/Bogris
C Batiste/Vougioukas/Shermadini
Backup PF still looks a little weak to me with how extremely injury prone Tsartsaris is. Backup SF could also be a big problem unless Tepic improves. But I think he will because he has all the talent. I would not trust Tsartsaris though. He's too injury prone.
They still need to add a good power forward. So I expect that once they get everyone re-signed they will add Kaimakoglou at PF and put Bogris on loan. If they can get that team above then ad Kaimakoglou they still have a stronger team than Olympiacos.