The Olympiacos Herald
Market9 Aug 2027
Olympiacos sign Aboubakary Koita for $5.8M
The paperwork is done: Aboubakary Koita joins from AEK in a deal worth $5.8M. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Olympiacos bid $5.6M for Cesare Casadei
The offer went to Torino this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A move Aboubakary Koita would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Aboubakary Koita is living that version at Olympiacos, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Olympiacos
Pablo Maffeo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market9 Aug 2027
Santiago Hezze 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Pavlos Mandalos steps up from the Olympiacos academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pavlos Mandalos 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Anastasios Bakasetas steps up from the Olympiacos academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anastasios Bakasetas 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.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
Konstantinos Angelakis has seen enough of Niki Volos
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Olympiacos, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Santiago Hezze's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
In brief
- Boardroom $700.0K lands at Olympiacos thanks to Lorenzo Pirola
- The dugout Stefan Ortega gets picked when it counts
- Squad A season on the outside for Pablo Maffeo