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This article appeared in the first version on January 31 at 7:06 a.m. and was updated after the confirmation.
According to Tom Krauss (23), VfL Bochum added personnel shortly before the transfer. Like initially “Sky“Reported, the Bundesliga last in advanced talks with Olympiacos Piraeus about a loan of foreign strikers Georgios Masouras. The district club was already interested in the 31-year-old in the past two transfer periods, but so far a deal has never worked.
Update 8:09 p.m.: VfL officially confirmed Masouras’s commitment on Saturday evening. The veteran already looked at the 0-1 defeat of the district club against SC Freiburg in Bochum. As expected, Masouras is loaned until the end of the season. “It is exceptional that we were able to sign Georgios Masouras,” VfL head coach Dieter Hecking is quoted. “It can be used variably on the offensive and should give our attack new impulses and a lot of momentum. Georgios is internationally experienced, also at a high level, so we assume that he will quickly get used to the pace and the way of playing the Bundesliga. What I personally like very much: he really wanted to go to VfL, burns for the challenge and wants to prove himself in the Bundesliga. ”
“He has been in focus for weeks,” said Hecking before the announcement and after the game about the Olympic Makos attacker. “I also met him briefly last night.” The coach hoped “that he will be in team training at the latest from Tuesday”. His team only scored 17 goals in 20 games in this Bundesliga season.
At the Conference League title defender from Greece, the team captain was usually only a second choice this season. In 17 games, Masouras was only 517 minutes on the field and scored a goal. Since January 2019, the 47-fold Greek international has had a total of 57 goals and 32 assists in 279 games for Olympiacos, where his contract is still running until 2027. In addition to both wings, it can also act as a hanging tip.