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Olympiacos Training Session Prior To 2nd Leg, 3rd Round UCL Qualifier Against NEC Nijmegen - Klodian Lato/EUROKINISSI Twenty-four hours ago, the discussion surrounding Ayoub El Kaabi was dominated by uncertainty. Today there is at least one genuinely positive piece of news. The operation went as planned. El Kaabi underwent surgery on Sunday morning under Olympiacos medical chief Christos Theos and his team at the Palaio Faliro Clinic of Athens Medical Center. Reporting carryi

Volos vs Olympiacos - Greek Superleague Matchday 3: Giorgos Matthaios/EUROKINISSI There are injuries that remove a player from a lineup. Then there are injuries that alter the construction of an entire season. El Kaabi’s falls into the second category. The initial hospital examinations in Volos reportedly confirmed a fracture of the tibia, with surgery planned almost immediately on Sunday. For Olympiacos, that means the discussion is no longer about whether he misses Jagiello

Volos Vs Olympiacos, Greek Superleague Matchday 3 - Giorgos Matthaios/EUROKINISSI The scoreboard says Olympiacos dropped two points. That was not the central story of the night. By the time the final whistle arrived, José Luis Mendilibar had been forced to remove three players through injury, while his most important striker was already undergoing examination at hospital. Official Super League match data confirms the 1-1 result, with Maximiliano Comba scoring Volos’ equalizer

Olympiacos vs Volos, Matchday 3 Superleague Greece - Giorgos Matthaios/EUROKINISSI There are football moments when the score becomes irrelevant almost instantly. The closing minutes of the first half in Volos produced one. Ayoub El Kaabi attacked a situation inside the penalty area and collided with goalkeeper Marios Siampanis. The immediate reactions told much of the story before any replay could. Players called frantically toward the bench. El Kaabi remained down in obvious

Leon Bailey of Aston Villa kisses the UEFA Europa League trophy following the team's victory in the UEFA Europa League Final 2026 match between SC Freiburg and Aston Villa FC at Besiktas Park on May 20, 2026 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images) The Leon Bailey story is finally no longer about negotiations, medical examinations or legal structure. He is an Olympiacos player. And the official wording matters. For several hours there had been competing version

The easiest way to interpret a 4-0 victory over lower-level opposition is to shrug. Olympiacos should win. They should possess more talent. They should create more chances. And against AEL, they eventually did all of that. But the usefulness of this match is found less in the final score than in who produced it. José Luis Mendilibar did not need another 90 minutes proving that his established first XI can beat domestic opposition. He needed information about the rest of the s

Gelson Martins of Olympiacos FC controls the ball during the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Knockout Play-off Second Leg match between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Olympiacos FC at BayArena on February 24, 2026 in Leverkusen, Germany. (Photo by Alex Grimm/Getty Images) For more than a week, the Gelson Martins situation had been relatively straightforward. Krasnodar wanted him. The player was reportedly receptive. Olympiacos did not like the price. Now the economics have chan

Leon Bailey of Aston Villa during a pre-season friendly match between FC Porto and Aston Villa at Estadio do Dragao on July 25, 2026 in Porto, Portugal. (Photo by Octavio Passos/Getty Images) The speed of this deal is striking. Only a few hours ago, Leon Bailey was one of several possibilities on Olympiacos’ winger list. Olympiacos had contacted Aston Villa. They had spoken with the player’s camp. No one could even say with certainty whether the conversation involved a loan o

This move makes considerably more sporting sense than keeping Koutsidis in Piraeus as depth. Center-back development is especially dependent on minutes. Training against Olympiacos' first-team attackers is useful. Playing competitive senior football every weekend is better. Braunschweig gives Koutsidis an environment where physical duels, aerial contests, defensive transitions and pressure around the penalty area will occur constantly. The 2. Bundesliga is a very good finishi

Of all the potential exits surrounding Olympiacos this summer, Christos Mouzakitis is not the name that would have seemed most likely to leave for €15 million. That is precisely why this report deserves close attention. Mouzakitis is not simply another young midfielder on the roster. He is one of the clearest success stories produced by Olympiacos’ academy in the modern era. He came through the club’s development structure, helped lead the generation that won the UEFA Youth L

The most important change is no longer verbal agreement. It is movement. Puerta has left Racing's training environment, appeared publicly at Bilbao Airport and is now reported to be on the aircraft that will take him to Greece. That dramatically reduces the number of things that can still derail the transaction. SPORT24 takes the story one step further by reporting that the €16m release amount has already been transferred in full, with additional training compensation, interm

For the first time in this transfer story, the biggest obstacle no longer appears to be Rodinei's contract. It appears to have been removed. Brazilian reporting initially established that Rodinei wanted to return home and had reached terms with Santos. Globo reported that the Brazilian club was waiting for Olympiacos to release him from a deal scheduled to run until June 30, 2027. Rodinei could agree to anything he wanted with Santos, but until Olympiacos surrendered its cont

Sometimes a transfer does not fail because the player suddenly loses his ability. It fails because the opportunity disappears. Clayton arrived at Olympiacos after scoring heavily for Rio Ave. The profile made sense. Olympiacos were acquiring a striker who had demonstrated sustained production in Portugal and appeared capable of providing another scoring option behind Ayoub El Kaabi. The reality has been very different. Even with the departure of Iranian striker Mehdi Taremi,

There could hardly be a more useful first test for the relaunched Olympiacos B project. An away match against PAOK B at Toumba offers an immediate indication of where the young Olympiacos squad stands against another academy/reserve structure built around producing senior-level players. The venue adds significance. Rather than beginning in a low-profile setting, Olympiacos B walk directly into one of Greece's major football stadiums in a televised game. Reserve football is no

Last season was almost absurdly dominant. Olympiacos Women went through their campaign with 14 victories from 14 matches, 136 goals scored and none conceded, earning promotion and establishing immediately that this project was built to rise quickly through the Greek pyramid. Now comes the first real structural test of that ambition. EPO has officially placed Olympiacos in Group 4 of the Β’ Ethniki Women’s Championship, meaning the club now knows the eight opponents standing b

Gustavo Puerta of Colombia looks on prior to the international friendly match between Jordan and Colombia at Snapdragon Stadium on June 07, 2026 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Mike Nowak/Getty Images) For several days, Gustavo Puerta has looked like the perfect example of Olympiacos running into the limits of the Greek transfer market. They found the player. They were prepared to spend. They met the financial threshold and the player still preferred Benfica. That should

Gustavo Puerta of Colombia competes for the ball with Alvaro Zamora of Costa Rica during the international friendly match between Colombia and Costa Rica at Estadio El Campin on June 01, 2026 in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo by Leonardo Castañeda/Getty Images) There is no useful way to describe the Gustavo Puerta story anymore without acknowledging the contradiction at its center. Olympiacos say there is no agreement. South American reporters say the player is getting on a plane.

Six points. Zero goals conceded. That is the good news. Two goals scored. Two one-goal victories. That tells another story. Olympiacos left Tripoli on Sunday night with exactly what José Luis Mendilibar needed: another three points. But the first two league games have established an interesting early-season contradiction. Olympiacos already look difficult to beat. They do not yet look difficult enough to defend. A 1–0 victory over Asteras AKTOR means the champions have starte

Domilson Cordeiro dos Santos known as Dodo of ACF Fiorentina in action during the Serie A match between ACF Fiorentina and Atalanta BC at Artemio Franchi on May 22, 2026 in Florence, Italy. (Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/Getty Images) For two days, the Olympiacos right-back story looked chaotic. Marcus Pedersen arrived. The deal paused. Dodô suddenly appeared. Olympiacos explored one of Serie A’s more technically accomplished attacking full-backs. Then Pedersen’s transfer restar

Rodinei At Final Whistle. NEC Nijmegen vs Olympiacos, Champions League 3rd Round Qualifier - 2nd Leg: Klodian Lato/EUROKINISSI Sometimes a transfer makes considerably more sense once another move appears. Marcus Pedersen’s arrival already told us Olympiacos were preparing to change something at right-back. Sunday morning may have provided the other half of the picture. Rodinei is now close to returning to Brazil with Santos. The 34-year-old has reportedly agreed a 2½-year con