Well, I, I feel like this is a very, very promising signing for Arsenal.
Christos Giolis is, one of the best, Greek players we have seen in a very long time.
Since Euro 2004, Greece was very well known for defensive players.
No wonder that, all the previous Greeks Arsenal have had, Stathis Stavrou, Sokratis
Papastathopoulos, Dinos Mavropanos, all of them defenders.
The best ever Greek to play in the Premier League, Nikos Dabizas for Newcastle, was a
defender as well.
But now this is a new era for Greece.
We're bringing in We- we A lot of young talented forwards are coming through, and
we're talking about a player who killed it last season for Club Brugge.
He ranked, he ranked first for dribbles completed in the Belgian top flight last
season and created more chances than any other player, and he's also brilliant in set pieces
as 52 of the 135 chances he created, in the league last term were from dead ball
situations, which of course is huge for Arsenal because we all know how good they are
in set pieces. Nicolas Jover should really love that.
And we know how much Arsenal struggled in breaking down an opposition that sat deep.
Giolis is very good, when it comes to dribbling.
He's very good in cutting into the area.
It's funny that he's taking the number 17 shirt, which i- if I remember correctly,
belonged to Alexis Sanchez because Giolis has pretty much the same frame and the same
goal-scoring ability as Alexis Sanchez.
He talked about in his interview how he emulates David Villa because,
well, he is a winger.
Villa was one was more well known as a number nine, but they both like, they both like being,
be- being of a s- of a second striker more than a specific kind of role within the,
within the, w- within the team.
So this is a very promising signing, and I do believe he has quite a few similar attributes,
as Leandro Trossard, as mentioned beforehand