Olympiacos’ insinuation that a former sports director of PAOK from Slovakia could influence an elite referee is as laughable as the assumption that a Slovakian ex-wife of a current sports director of Olympiacos could do the same.

We will not participate in the attempt to create a toxic climate, as we know that Olympiacos might have felt better if Treimanis-Pineiro or other «adopted» children of Clattenberg were reappointed.

We both agreed that an elite referee should be appointed, as it was done. We hope that we don’t even remember his name after the match.