December 10, 2020 at 6:15 PM by Thomas
Panagiotis Retsos’s valuation is down, but the Greek defender has an option to stay at AS Saint-Etienne.
The inheritance is heavy to bear and so far he has missed out on opportunities to prove he has it due to his grinding groin. Panagiotis Retsos has arrived in Forez in the last hours of the summer transfer window, as the one chosen to replace Wesley Fofana’s departure from Leicester. 22-year-old Greek international, Restos is not a player from ASSE, but from Bayer Leverkusen, in Germany, who loaned him to the Greens for the current season.
Loaned for one year to ASSE by Bayer Leverkusen
By sliding into the operation, a non-compulsory purchase option, to be exercised (or not), on June 30th. It would be 6.5 million euros, but flexible under certain conditions, such as the number of matches played. That’s two and a half times less than the € 17.5million penalty paid by Bayer Leverkusen to Sheffield United to recruit him. But this is beyond the market valuation of the player, which is also falling in this first third of the 2020-21 fiscal year. For Transfermarkt, it is closer to 6 million euros and the analysis is more severe on the side of theFootball observatory, where it is valued between 1 and 2 million euros.
Panagiotis Retsos is young but he has already lived
He is with the Greens on a one-year freelance basis, and if he is not retained, he will return to Leverkusen to complete the remaining years of his contract: one and a half until the end of June 2022. He earns nearly 175,000 euros gross monthly estimated, that AS Saint-Etienne would only partially pay; the other remaining at Bayer’s expense. Panagiotis Retsos is only 22 years old, but he has already traveled a lot; Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he trained at Olympiakos in Greece, before moving to England and club Sheffield United. Then Germany. The rest, we know it …