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With the sale of Manolas to Roma and Samaris to Benfica, Olympiacos put 24 million euros in its coffers. If we add to these the 15 that he got from Mitroglou, we are talking about 39 million revenues from the sales of three Greek football players, which cost little.
I do not know what the president of Olympiacos, Vangelis Marinakis, will do with this money: he can make an Olympic team even stronger, he can scatter them - anything can happen when we talk about football. However, what he proved with these sales is that Greek football companies are not doomed to create only debts: whoever claims the opposite, is looking for excuses for administrative mismanagement. When you know how to sell, no one is to blame: neither the league, nor the lack of competition, nor anything.
There is interest
There is interest in buying good players from all over Europe: as long as you know how to create added value and have a plan. PAOK has been trying for a long time now to settle debts to the public in the order of 19 million euros and until that happens Savvidis has put him in an austerity program - at least he claims that this is the reason. PAO is in the third year of economic hardship because multi-stakeholder and Ziger left him debts of 25 million euros - a year due to debts he did not play in Europe.
AEK lived the nightmare of relegation because it could not find 5 million euros for annual settlements and Aris (it) is relegated to DG Ethniki for even less. These amounts, which have caused dizziness and anxiety in some of the biggest teams in the country, are ultimately funny, if one sees how easily Olympiacos found them: even Panionios would have much less problems, if it kept an amount than a possible resale of Samaris!
These sales, on the one hand, prove the ability of Olympiacos and, on the other hand, demonstrate the inability of its competitors to become even good sellers. PAOK sold Vierinia and Stafyllidis for around 6,5 million euros - that is, they got a little more than the money that Olympiacos put in the fund from the sale of Weiss (!) Who stayed in Greece for three months. PAO gave Maurias, Kapinos and Karnezis - three internationals - a bargain price. For all three together, she got something less than Olympiacos for Miralas or if you prefer something more than Olympiacos for Feisas. Olympiacos is the first Greek company to prove that selling is an art. The only one that saves you from austerities and bankruptcies.
National and Europe
Manolas made a good Champions League - even scoring two goals, and made a good World Cup, in which he was next to Papastathopoulos without being a key player in the matches of the National qualifiers. At Ethniki he was even a substitute for Maleza (!), But at Olympiakos he was never left to doubt for a moment about his value. They let Melmberg go to find space for the player, they took Contreras, who was a good back who did not cause him stress, and last year they anointed him the leader of the defense, closing their ears so as not to hear those who said that "with Manolas and Siova in Europe you go nowhere ": and you go and sell just fine.
Olympiacos also acquired Samaris early, left him to Panionios to cook, did not leave him when Eleftheropoulos did not use him as a key player, brought him to Renti because Mitchell assessed his qualifications, and made a little targeted fuss to call the player in the National initially and play and key. Among the dozens of stupid riots that clubs make, the one that forces the federations to take care of their players is the only one that makes sense. Provided that the players will understand that the National is a serious matter for their professional future and will not behave like Georgatos and Anzas or Stoltidis, who said "no" to the National easily, mainly because that old man Olympiakos covered them.
Personal relations
Attention and utilization of new players, requirement from them to behave seriously in national teams, attention to European presences and finally good relations with serious managers abroad: this is how sales are made. While in the time of Kokkalis the managers were treated as a kind of necessary evil and there were ours (remember the cult of Angelos Travlos for example) and those against us (remember the quarrels with Seluk for example), today Olympiakos has relationship with some of the best in Europe: the relationship with Ramadan, Enroto, Raiola, Zahavi, Dalin and lastly, as I learn, with the great Mendez, Olympiacos built it by buying: if you do not buy in the bazaar you do not sit . In Greece, various team leaders have always had the impression that someone will show up to bring them millions of proposals for their beautiful eyes! It can happen, but the chances are slim: in order to be taken seriously, they must first look at your wallet.
Marinakis paid a high price and is paying a high price. He paid dearly for Riera, Pandelic, Miralas, Masado, Roberto, he gave more than he should for Sepovic, Katai, Feisa, he honored with the above, not only the contracts of Ibagasa, Modesto, Saviola who they offered, but also Pinto, Kazim Richards, Geste, Torres who did not give anything. Somehow you can borrow great players from Arsenal or Atletico Madrid, make purchases from Barcelona and Monaco, sit at the big table, not pleading, but equally. Somehow you can finally sell expensive, and not just in one country.
Marinakis's Olympiakos has sold to Englishmen, Italians, Spaniards, Turks and Portuguese and has an alibi with both the French and the Germans and the Belgians. He no longer waits for Ukrainians, Arabs and Russians to be sucked in: the large network of European managers counts him as a team that sells expensive - not by chance since the managers' relationship with Marinakis is on a personal level.
As for whether the prices are good, think about what you would say if Olympiacos bought Manolas for 15 million euros tomorrow and Samari 9. I think you would say that in Piraeus they went crazy ...
All I can say is that I hope that with this money he can get other players as well.
Maybe I'm not objective since I do not even want to see him, I do not know.
With the sale of Manolas to Roma and Samaris to Benfica, Olympiacos put 24 million euros in its coffers. If we add to these the 15 that he got from Mitroglou, we are talking about 39 million revenues from the sales of three Greek football players, which cost little.
I do not know what the president of Olympiacos, Vangelis Marinakis, will do with this money: he can make an Olympic team even stronger, he can scatter them - anything can happen when we talk about football. However, what he proved with these sales is that Greek football companies are not doomed to create only debts: whoever claims the opposite, is looking for excuses for administrative mismanagement. When you know how to sell, no one is to blame: neither the league, nor the lack of competition, nor anything.
There is interest
There is interest in buying good players from all over Europe: as long as you know how to create added value and have a plan. PAOK has been trying for a long time now to settle debts to the public in the order of 19 million euros and until that happens Savvidis has put him in an austerity program - at least he claims that this is the reason. PAO is in the third year of economic hardship because multi-stakeholder and Ziger left him debts of 25 million euros - a year due to debts he did not play in Europe.
AEK lived the nightmare of relegation because it could not find 5 million euros for annual settlements and Aris (it) is relegated to DG Ethniki for even less. These amounts, which have caused dizziness and anxiety in some of the biggest teams in the country, are ultimately funny, if one sees how easily Olympiacos found them: even Panionios would have much less problems, if it kept an amount than a possible resale of Samaris!
These sales, on the one hand, prove the ability of Olympiacos and, on the other hand, demonstrate the inability of its competitors to become even good sellers. PAOK sold Vierinia and Stafyllidis for around 6,5 million euros - that is, they got a little more than the money that Olympiacos put in the fund from the sale of Weiss (!) Who stayed in Greece for three months. PAO gave Maurias, Kapinos and Karnezis - three internationals - a bargain price. For all three together, she got something less than Olympiacos for Miralas or if you prefer something more than Olympiacos for Feisas. Olympiacos is the first Greek company to prove that selling is an art. The only one that saves you from austerities and bankruptcies.
National and Europe
Manolas made a good Champions League - even scoring two goals, and made a good World Cup, in which he was next to Papastathopoulos without being a key player in the matches of the National qualifiers. At Ethniki he was even a substitute for Maleza (!), But at Olympiakos he was never left to doubt for a moment about his value. They let Melmberg go to find space for the player, they took Contreras, who was a good back who did not cause him stress, and last year they anointed him the leader of the defense, closing their ears so as not to hear those who said that "with Manolas and Siova in Europe you go nowhere ": and you go and sell just fine.
Olympiacos also acquired Samaris early, left him to Panionios to cook, did not leave him when Eleftheropoulos did not use him as a key player, brought him to Renti because Mitchell assessed his qualifications, and made a little targeted fuss to call the player in the National initially and play and key. Among the dozens of stupid riots that clubs make, the one that forces the federations to take care of their players is the only one that makes sense. Provided that the players will understand that the National is a serious matter for their professional future and will not behave like Georgatos and Anzas or Stoltidis, who said "no" to the National easily, mainly because that old man Olympiakos covered them.
Personal relations
Attention and utilization of new players, requirement from them to behave seriously in national teams, attention to European presences and finally good relations with serious managers abroad: this is how sales are made. While in the time of Kokkalis the managers were treated as a kind of necessary evil and there were ours (remember the cult of Angelos Travlos for example) and those against us (remember the quarrels with Seluk for example), today Olympiakos has relationship with some of the best in Europe: the relationship with Ramadan, Enroto, Raiola, Zahavi, Dalin and lastly, as I learn, with the great Mendez, Olympiacos built it by buying: if you do not buy in the bazaar you do not sit . In Greece, various team leaders have always had the impression that someone will show up to bring them millions of proposals for their beautiful eyes! It can happen, but the chances are slim: in order to be taken seriously, they must first look at your wallet.
Marinakis paid a high price and is paying a high price. He paid dearly for Riera, Pandelic, Miralas, Masado, Roberto, he gave more than he should for Sepovic, Katai, Feisa, he honored with the above, not only the contracts of Ibagasa, Modesto, Saviola who they offered, but also Pinto, Kazim Richards, Geste, Torres who did not give anything. Somehow you can borrow great players from Arsenal or Atletico Madrid, make purchases from Barcelona and Monaco, sit at the big table, not pleading, but equally. Somehow you can finally sell expensive, and not just in one country.
Marinakis's Olympiakos has sold to Englishmen, Italians, Spaniards, Turks and Portuguese and has an alibi with both the French and the Germans and the Belgians. He no longer waits for Ukrainians, Arabs and Russians to be sucked in: the large network of European managers counts him as a team that sells expensive - not by chance since the managers' relationship with Marinakis is on a personal level.
As for whether the prices are good, think about what you would say if Olympiacos bought Manolas for 15 million euros tomorrow and Samari 9. I think you would say that in Piraeus they went crazy ...
All I can say is that I hope that with this money he can get other players as well.
Maybe I'm not objective since I do not even want to see him, I do not know.