Betis Technical Director on Papastathopoulos: “We achieved our initial goal with a good stopper”

Her player Betis is from Thursday (25/10) o Socrates Papastathopoulos, which was announced by the Andalusians until June 2024.

The “verdiblancos” proceeded to acquire the Greek central defender, in order to fill the gap of the injured Mark Bartra. Of course, the case was not easy at all and many difficulties had to be overcome to complete the deal, with the 35-year-old stopper throws complete his financial requirements and sign a cooperation contract with the club.

For this addition to the roster, the technical director of “betikos” also gave statements. Ramon Planes, who emphasized, among other things, that with this move the original goal was achieved, with the acquisition of a good central defender.

“He’s going to contribute a lot to our team in a big way. It will strengthen us and I believe that the goal we set from the beginning has been achieved. When Bartra got injured, we knew we had to sign a central defender and a good central defender at that. With these facts it was not easy and in combination with today’s match (s.s.: yesterday’s) in Cyprus, things got complicated. But we are happy with the final result of the negotiation, he is already in Sevilla and tomorrow he will be at the coach’s disposal.

He played a lot of games last year, which we appreciated, and he’s an experienced player who comes in to help. Socrates’ medical tests were very positive, he is in good condition. He lacks game pace, but he’s physically fine.” were his words Fallacies.

It should be noted that the announcement of his transfer was made in an epic way by the Andalusians, with the name of Papastathopoulos serving as… a wifi code, apparently because of his size!