Hello and welcome to this Patreon episode of 20 minute Tims. This is the breakfast of champions, a podcast that we drop in for you the patrons to fill in the gaps

between the weekly flagship podcasts.

On this episode, I sit down with Janus Corinopoulos,

who's a journalist based on Athens, Eddert and chief at sports time,

and he gives us the lowdown on Celtics,

news signing Vassilis Barkis Marcus he tells us about the

transfer tells us about the player and tells us what to expect. A little bit of

local knowledge goes a long way so we hope we enjoy it. Thanks for listening.

I'm joined by Janus Corinopoulos the sports

journalist editor-in-chief of Greek sports website Sport Time who's going to give us a

bit of an insight into the new Celtic signing. How we doing Janus? How are you? I'm fine. I'm good, how are things

over in Athens just now? Yeah, thank you for this. No problem, no problem.

So Celtic are looking at if they're about to complete the signing of Visellas Barkis from Aikay Athens.

I suppose the first question I've got is how is this move being viewed over in Greece because Aikay Athens are a relatively big

European team but is this sort of seen as a step- up to Celtic who might be viewed as a bigger club?

Well, sharing this is a big impact here about this transfer.

Facile is a well-known player here in Greece.

I think he made some good appearances also in Europe,

but his transfer from my act to Celtic is you know it's a big news here in Greece for

for everybody. Yeah I mean it's certainly big news among Celtic fans, Celtic have been chasing a good

goalkeeper since the beginning of the summer, since like Fraser Foster wasn't going to come back.

And I think a lot of Celtic fans are quite surprised at the fee, you know, is it somewhere in the region of five, six million euros depending on where it's getting quoted?

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