{"id":579548,"date":"2021-01-19T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=579548"},"modified":"2021-01-19T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:08:35","slug":"norwich-city-complete-signing-dimitris-giannoulis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/19\/norwich-city-complete-signing-dimitris-giannoulis\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City Complete Signing of Dimitris Giannoulis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Championship leaders<a href=\"\/football\/tag\/Norwich-City\" target=\"_self\"> Norwich City<\/a> have completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/football-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_self\">signing<\/a> of left-back Dimitris Giannoulis from PAOK on loan.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old joins on an initial loan deal with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11709\/12191121\/dimitris-giannoulis-norwich-to-sign-greece-international-left-back-on-loan-ahead-of-possible-6-2m-move\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">option to buy<\/a> for \u00a36.2 million if the Canaries achieve promotion this season.<\/p>\n<p>Norwich had reportedly been looking for left-back options after fitness doubts over Villarreal loanee Xavi Quintilla, who suffered a hip problem and also contracted Covid-19.<\/p>\n<h2>Norwich City Sign Dimitris Giannoulis<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcdd Norwich City are delighted to announce the loan signing of left-back Dimitris Giannoulis from PAOK!<\/p>\n<p>The Greek international will link-up with the Canaries subject to the confirmation of a work permit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u039d\u03cc\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03c2 \u03a3\u03af\u03c4\u03b9 (@NorwichCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorwichCityFC\/status\/1351560050532380678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canaries.co.uk\/News\/2021\/january\/city-strike-deal-for-giannoulis\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giannoulis said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m really happy to have signed. It was a dream to play for an English team and now that has come true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a busy few days, but I\u2019m here and I can\u2019t wait to get on the pitch with my new teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will always give my best. I consider myself a fast player, both in attack and defence. I like Norwich\u2019s style of football and I hope I adapt to the way that the team plays and that I can help the team get promoted.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Giannoulis&#8217; Career<\/h3>\n<p>Twenty-five-year-old Giannoulis joins the Canaries having spent his entire professional career prior in Greece and Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>He came through the youth academy at Vataniakos and went on to make 34 appearances for them in total, scoring three goals.<\/p>\n<p>After moving to PAOK in 2014, he had loan spells at Pierikos, Veria, Anorthosis and Atromitos.<\/p>\n<p>His best season for PAOK came in 2019\/20 when he made 44 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>He leaves the club having played 16 times in the first half of the campaign, scoring one &#8211; the opening goal against Benfica in a Champions League qualifying match.<\/p>\n<p>The defender is also a full Greece international, having played 11 times for the national side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"jj9ixq0tR_FSRURLNh8wgg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1203731924\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'jj9ixq0tR_FSRURLNh8wgg',sig:'m3sbEceq0Y8CnJX0-KSoBgrJyxzDiZNSFbjVuSdddZA=',w:'594px',h:'415px',items:'1203731924',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Championship leaders Norwich City have completed the signing of left-back Dimitris Giannoulis from PAOK on loan. The 25-year-old joins on an initial loan deal with an option to buy for \u00a36.2 million if the Canaries achieve promotion this season. Norwich had reportedly been looking for left-back options after fitness doubts over Villarreal loanee Xavi Quintilla, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":579550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,30,1370,28],"tags":[197,168,1297,237,574,136],"class_list":["post-579548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-news","category-norwich-city","category-transfers","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-norwich-city","tag-paok","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}