From Niche Cache.
Basically what seems to have happened is this: Crvena zvezda received an offer from Coventry which they quickly accepted for a player they’d signed on a free just twelve months earlier. Stamenic was initially hesitant to accept but ended up agreeing to the move in principle. We don’t know the order of these next two events but Stamenic appears to have held back on completing the Coventry move as Nottingham Forest stepped in with a slightly bigger offer. Now it’s Nottingham Forest who’ve usurped the move. Here’s the general director of Crvena zvezda having a yarn about it...
Basically what seems to have happened is this: Crvena zvezda received an offer from Coventry which they quickly accepted for a player they’d signed on a free just twelve months earlier. Stamenic was initially hesitant to accept but ended up agreeing to the move in principle. We don’t know the order of these next two events but Stamenic appears to have held back on completing the Coventry move as Nottingham Forest stepped in with a slightly bigger offer. Now it’s Nottingham Forest who’ve usurped the move. Here’s the general director of Crvena zvezda having a yarn about it...
Zvezdan Tercic: “We agreed on everything with Coventry but we didn't sign anything. Stamenic didn't want to go to the Championship, he exclusively wanted a move to the Premier League. A club from there contacted us, we negotiated, and I think that tomorrow we will sign the transfer for compensation of 5.5 million euros.”
There you go. By all accounts, Stamenic won’t be an immediate teammate of Chris Wood there but will be loaned to Olympiakos in Greece – a sister club of Forest due to their shared ownership. There are two reasons why that would happen. One is that they want to develop him within their own wider system for another year before unleashing him in the Premier League. Two is that they’re severely restricted by financial fair play rules right now so registering him could prove tricky (remember they nearly got relegated last season due to a points deduction).
There you go. By all accounts, Stamenic won’t be an immediate teammate of Chris Wood there but will be loaned to Olympiakos in Greece – a sister club of Forest due to their shared ownership. There are two reasons why that would happen. One is that they want to develop him within their own wider system for another year before unleashing him in the Premier League. Two is that they’re severely restricted by financial fair play rules right now so registering him could prove tricky (remember they nearly got relegated last season due to a points deduction).
Olympiakos finished third in the Greek division last season but won the Europa Conference League, beating Fiorentina 1-0 after extra time in the final. Stamenic won’t be adding to his Champions League appearances next season but he will have a chance to keep his league title winning streak up in a third consecutive country. That is... assuming this one actually happens. Best not get ahead of ourselves until the official channels start piping up.