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Report: Olympiakos must pay £5m to sign Everton’s Kevin Mirallas – but won’t

Sam Allardyce, Manager of Everton looks dejected during the Premier League match between Watford and Everton at Vicarage Road on February 24, 2018 ...
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Everton loaned Kevin Mirallas to Olympiakos in January but could be forced to return to Goodison Park and the Premier League this summer.

Kevin Mirallas of Everton scores his team's second goal during the Premier League match between Everton and Manchester City at Goodison Park on January 15, 2017 in Liverpool, England.

Kevin Mirallas was furious that Everton stopped him from returning to former club Olympiakos last summer. So the Belgian international would have been very relieved that he finally got his move to Greece in January.

Mirallas made his name at Olympiakos, winning the league and the Golden Boot in 2012 to earn a £6 million move to Goodison Park (BBC). But his second spell at the Greek giants does not appear to be anywhere near as successful.

Mirallas has scored just once in 12 games for Olympiakos and, according to Belgian paper Nieuwsblad in March, it seems he could be forced to make a rather unpleasant return to Merseyside with the Greek giants unlikely to buy him this summer.

Olympiakos' Kevin Mirallas reacts after his team disqualified from the next round during a group F Champions league football match against Arsenal in Piraeus on December 6 , 2011. AFP PHOTO

And Sport.gr has now added more weight to these claims. It is understood that Olympiakos can sign Mirallas this summer for just over £5 million but, after a run of poor form, it seems very unlikely that he will still be in Piraeus by the time next season kicks off.

Olympiakos have won the Super League title in each of the last seven seasons but that run is looking increasingly likely to come to an end. They are six points adrift of AEK Athens at the top of the table.

Kevin Mirallas of Everton runs with the ball during the UEFA Europa League group E match between Everton FC and Atalanta at Goodison Park on November 23, 2017 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

As reported by the Liverpool Echo, furious owner Evangelos Marinakis fined each of his team around £400,000 each and warned that they face being dropped for the rest of this season.