

Europe
As the Efivos Turns EP.1: Juve wants our starting 11
By: Chris Pavlakos |Ok so, here is a roundup of the transfer rumors so far:
IN:
Onyewu (Standard Liège)
Zuela (Xanthi)
Nihat (Villarreal)
Wagner Love (CSKA)
Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid)
Luis (Belenenses)
Papa Babacar Diawara (Maritimo Funchal)
Rasmus Elm (Kalmar FF)
Ledesma (back from Loan)
Leto (Liverpool)
Derbyshire (Blackburn)
Bottinelli (Sampdoria)
Materazzi (Inter Milan)
Lua Lua (Qatar)
Geoffrey Dernis (Saint Etienne)
Seitaridis (Atlético Madrid)
Gekas (Portsmouth)
Katsouranis (Benfica)
OUT:
Leonardo (4 million, unkown team)
Raul Bravo (Russia)
Patsa (Galatasaray)
Belluschi (Fiorentina)
Leto (Juve)
Galletti [...]
Olympiacos interested in Inter’s Materazzi
By: Peter Katsiris |The summer transfer may be a long ways away, but that hasn’t stopped Olympiacos from browsing the field of potential transfers according to the Greek press. In reports originating out of Greece on Wednesday, Inter Milan’s Marco Materazzi is one of the high-profile stars targeted by club president Sokratis Kokkalis.
The reports indicate Olympiacos are interested [...]
While you were Out: Djole, Mitro, and UEFA sanctions
By: Peter Katsiris |After another lengthy international break, Olympiacos returns to action this weekend with a Super League visit to Levadeiakos on Sunday. While the main focus over the last two weeks have revolved around internationals, Olympiacos has been making some headlines recently, so why don’t we recap…
Djordjevic calls it quits
The most successful player in Olympiacos’ history, Predrag [...]
Hey, PAOK! What’s your beef?
By: Peter Katsiris |Remember that? Well if you don’t, that’s basically PAOK’s Sergio Conceicao and Antonis Nikopolidis getting involved in a tussle in the player tunnel at the Toumba Stadium in Thessaloniki.
If the first wasn’t bad enough, do you remember this one? That’s Pablo Garcia auditioning for the next edition of the legendary motion picture Rocky. Yes, you [...]
…and so the journey begins
By: Chris Pavlakos |Thank you Pete for the great introduction to what will be going on over the next few weeks. As Pete said, I will be going all over Greece on a footballing holiday and will share the whole experience with you right here on olympiacos.theoffside.com! (You can click on the picture to the left to [...]
Saint-Etienne purges Olympiacos’ UEFA Cup campaign
By: Peter Katsiris |UEFA president Michel Platini watched from the stands as Saint-Etienne handed Olympiacos its walking orders from the final edition of the UEFA Cup on Thursday evening. Dimitri Payet and Ilan scored for the French, before Oscar Gonzalez tallied for the traveling Greeks to pave way for a 2-1 win for Saint-Etienne at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard.
Already [...]
Olympiacos out to salvage European season against Saint-Etienne
By: Peter Katsiris |A mountainous chore lies ahead for Olympiacos, after their self-destructive performance at the Giorgos Karaiskakis Stadium last week allowed Saint-Etienne to cruise to a comfortable 3-1 victory in Piraeus. On Thursday night, the Greek Champions will aim to overturn that deficit at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, but the odds are stacked heavily against the Greek Super [...]
Olympiacos looks to hand St. Etienne their “ASSE” in France
By: Chris Pavlakos |Olympiacos are in a deep hole as we head to the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard to take on Saint Étienne tomorrow afternoon (or night if you are in Europe).
Tough Task
If you are an Olympiacos supporter, I don’t have to tell you that being down 3-1 on aggregate and needing a 3 goal win away is a [...]
Orange: Collina’s new favorite color!
By: Chris Pavlakos |Not really Olympiacos news per say, but this is too good to pass up.
In Italy they are going to experiment with the use of an ORANGE card. Article from Italy (in english) here
”It would be good for those situations where a red card is too much and a yellow not enough,” said an ironically ORANGE [...]
‘Djole’ becomes Olympiacos’ top UEFA Cup scorer
By: Peter Katsiris |It’s merely consolation, but Predrag Djordjevic’s penalty goal in Olympiacos’ 3-1 defeat to Saint-Etienne on Wednesday made him the club’s all-time leading scorer in European competition.
Bagging his fifteenth goal in Europe against the Ligue 1 outfit, Djordjevic surpassed Nikos Anastopoulos’ mark of fourteen goals to become Olympiacos’ leading scorer after eighty-nine appearances in Europe for [...]






