Andreas Bouchalakis made just 10 Championship starts for Nottingham Forest; now he is playing Champions League football for Olympiakos.
Such has been the constant turnover of players in and out of Nottingham Forest in recent years, it is easy to forget that Andreas Bouchalakis ever wore the famous red shirt.
A Greek international with seven caps to his name, the midfielder spent the 2017/18 season at the City Ground but those two stunning goals on his debut against Brentford were about as good as it got for him on the banks of the River Trent.
Just nine Championship starts later, Bouchalakis was heading home to Olympiakos.
And Nottingham Forest fans got an unexpected glimpse of the past when tuning into a Champions League between the giants of Piraeus and Tottenham Hotspur at the Karaiskakis Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Boasting an 89 per cent pass accuracy and cutting through Mauricio Pochettino’s backline twice like a knife through hot butter, Bouchalakis certainly looked at home against Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli and the £65 million summer signing Tanguy Ndombele as Olympiakos came from behind to claim a creditable 2-2 draw.
Did Forest give up on Bouchalakis too quickly? A cultured, classy midfielder certainly would have had something to offer in the Sabri Lamouchi era.
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