Vasilis Barkas

VB: I'm very happy to come to this very big club and I can't wait to play my first game.


VB: "Before I signed, I knew Celtic was a very big club. When I played here last, I remember the atmosphere out on the field and it was something totally different from Greece. I'm here to win the Championship.


VB: "I know how important the season ahead is for Celtic. Neil Lennon told me about the club, what he expects from me and I'm ready to show that I'm ready to play for this club."


VB: "The manager told me about the fans, and I like that and the pressure. If the coach wants me to play, I'm ready. I came here to play. "


VB: "I have a good friend who has a good relationship with Samaras. He told me it's a very good team and the fans are crazy for them. I really want to see this for myself.

VB: "I've already played in the Champions League. I might be young, but I don't feel pressure to play here. I can play for Celtic

 

Great signing, everyone's first choice would have Forster but this guy and aek has clearly made it easier to sign him up than Forster and Southampton has.

Talking * again but comes across as a real Boruc hunskelper type. He's gonna fit right in with the fans.

 

I'm delighted with this signing, brilliant signing and stability.

I also appear in the minority of 1 who loves that goalie tap!

 

Had a blinder over the 2 legs against us that's about my knowledge of him but what I saw over they 2 legs was promising, at w6 hes not even peaked

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Looks pretty good from that. I hope his control of the box and distribution are as good. I've only ever seen him in the two games against AEK back in '18.

 

He’s got that mad * vibe about him.

 

A bit of the Holy Goalie about him.

 

Haha aye.

 

After completing his transfer to Celtic, Vassilis Barkas made the following statement through aekfc.gr:

"I owe, first of all, a great personal" thank you "to Mr. Dimitris Melissanidis, because he was the one who gave me the great opportunity for my football development.

He was the one who first believed in me to join AEK, the one who supported me all these years, but also the one who helped me and understood that it was time for me to go one step further, fully respecting my own desire.

I would also like to thank all the coaches I worked with during these four years at AEK and especially Mr. Michailidis who worked with me until the last day and stood by me constantly, especially after the injuries I had.

I will never forget all my teammates with whom I shared the same locker room. I thank them for their support in my person, for what we all achieved together, for the joys and sorrows we experienced, for the victories and defeats we did, for the great but also the difficult moments we shared, for the championship we won , for every moment I spent with them in Spata all this time.

I would also like to thank the people who were by my side and with my teammates at the team's training center. It will always be in my heart, from the first to the last.

And finally, the people of AEK, who stood by us in the easy and the difficult, who we felt close to us until the last match, who even today sends me his love for my transfer to Celtic.

May I live up to everyone's expectations at this important step in my career. Whatever I achieve, whatever I achieve, whatever the development, I will be forever proud of these four years in which I wore the AEK jersey ".
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PAE AEK announces the transfer of the football player Vassilis Barkas to the Scottish Celtic.

The Greek international goalkeeper was acquired by Atromitos in the summer of 2016 and in the four years he played for our team he counted 111 participations in all competitions.

She was a member of the team that won the championship and reached the "32" of the UEFA Europa League in the 2017-18 season, while the next season she participated with her in the UEFA Champions League groups.

A big thank you from the family of AEK to Vassilis Barkas along with the warmest wishes of all of us for a successful career and even better continuation in a very big club, such as the champion team of Scotland with 132 years of history.

 

Cannae spell Barkas without the RA

 

£900,000 to an agent. That's ridiculous.

Welcome Barkas! Hopefully he's not barking and is the dog's bollocks!

 

12k a week is that his wages?

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12k a week is really low if true, i wonder what he was on at AEK.

 

Made up to have sorted this position. Loved big FF on both occasions but glad we moved on. We are to big of a club to be holding on for someone that doesn't want to be here. Fingers crossed we won't be missing Fraser going forward too.

Welcome barkas!

 

Starkas





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Super playing safe, if we are giving him £12k I'd say he'd had been on £8k/9k can't imagine we'd go in and offer him anything too insanely different, like say he was only of £4k and went in hard jumping all the way to £12k