20 Aug 2021 20:48:47
I’m intrigued by Giorgos Giakoumakis. Looking at his stats for last season they are outstanding. If you go further back, he was previously with AEK Athens and was an unused sub in both legs of the 2018 CL tie against ourselves. He should at least be familiar with Celtic Park. It’s conjecture, but you’d think he’d also be familiar with Barkas. Will that help or does that explain anything?
On the face of it and at the money quoted its a no brainer going for this player. That said, he has to want to come and you wonder why other than relegated Werder Bremen, no one in the Dutch league or elsewhere, has taken a punt on him yet?

1.) 20 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 21:29:38
PSav I posted the same earlier in the week as to why no one else has shown any interest in him .

2.) 20 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 21:41:33
He only scored One league goal for AEK in 30 league games from 2017-2020.
But I was really impressed with the video of his goals from last season.
He scored plenty of good headers and with his movement was also good.
It’s hard to tell from videos but I thought he looked better than the £7 million Antwerp forward we were linked with.

{Ed007's Note - Mikey looked into Giakoumakis' record at AEK, Buzz and most of his 30 appearances were coming on as a late substitution.}

3.) 20 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 22:13:58
To put Giakoumakis’s efforts last season in perspective, one of VVV-Velo’s league results was a 13-0 drubbing by Ajax.

Hopefully we weren’t scouting their centre halves as well 😁.

4.) 20 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 22:22:51
Mickey was right Ed.
Giakoumakis only played 3 full league games out of the 30 matches.
He only played an average of 28 minutes in league games for AEK.

{Ed007's Note - Cheers, Buzz.}