Championship side Nottingham Forest are reportedly set to make the Greek international their 15th signing and he could debut against Swansea City.
Despite the shared ownership linking Nottingham Forest and Olympiakos, only one player has moved between the two clubs since Evangelos Marinakis completed his takeover from Fawaz Al-Hasawi in 2017.
But reports in the Nottingham Post suggest that Panagiotis Tachtsidis could soon follow in the footsteps of Andrea Bouchalakis.
A 27-year-old Greek international midfielder, Tachtsidis spent last season at Olympiakos but is now a free-agent. And the Post believes that he is ‘likely’ to become Forest’s 15th signing of a busy summer, swapping one Marinakis club for another.
The report adds that Tachtsidis could even be a Forest player before their next Championship fixture, the clash with Swansea City after the upcoming international break.
It’s fair to say the 25-time Greece international has had a nomadic career since becoming AEK Athens’ youngest ever debutant in 2009. In the last decade, he has represented no less than 10 clubs including Genoa, Roma and Torino with the majority of his career spent in Italy.
At 6ft 4ins and having tallied 10 yellow cards last season, Tachtisidis would certainly add some real physicality to Nottingham Forest’s engine room. He is also renowned for his fine range of passing.
Though he will be hoping to do better than Bouchalakis did at the City Ground. After scoring twice against Brentford on his debut last August, ‘Boucha’ started just 10 more league games and returned to Olympiakos this summer.
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