He got his wish and will attack the new season with a Champions League winner

Răzvan Lucescu received the long-awaited news. A Champions League winner will join the Greek champions.

PAOK parted ways with the best defender in the lot this summer. At 20, Konstantinos Koulierakis became the most expensive transfer in the history of the club coached by Răzvan Lucescu. The Romanian technician was worried that he would not cover an extremely important position, but the long-awaited move was completed.

Dejan Lovren is the new defender of the Greeks from PAOK

Left without the best player in the squad, transferred to Wolfsburg in exchange for 11,750,000 euros, Răzvan Lucescu received extraordinary news. The press in Greece announced that PAOK and Olympique Lyon have agreed for the transfer of the 35-year-old Croatian.

The Croatian defender has signed a two-year deal, with the move completed at the end of the transfer window. It is an extremely important move for Lucescu jr.’s group. which will start the European cup campaign again one of the opponents is FCSBthe Superleague champion.

PAOK completed the big transfer. Dejan Lovren will be in black and white, with the Croatian centre-back signing a two-year deal. Lovren will be the fourth defender, alongside Kohli, Michaelidis and Keziora, while we must remember that he is not eligible to play in the Europa League. Thymianis will be the additional center back, he noted Sport24.

Although Răzvan Lucescu has transferred an experienced defender who also won the Champions League with Liverpool, he will not be able to rely on Dejan Lovren in the Europa League because the period in which he could send the list of eligible players for the main phase of the competition has already closed.

Who is Dejan Lovren, the top defender transferred by the Greek champions

Dejan Lovren signed for PAOK from Olympique Lyon under contract until 2025. He has a rich CV, most notably at Liverpool, where he made 185 appearances in all competitions, during which time he won a Premier League and Champions League title under Jurgen Klopp.

He made 78 appearances for the Croatian national team, with notable performances at the 2018 World Cup, where he became runner-up and in 2022, when he reached the semi-finals. During his career, Lovren won no less than 13 trophies and played for Dinamo Zagreb, Inter Zapresic, Lyon, Southampton, Liverpool and Zenit St. Petersburg.

In addition to the transfer of Dejan Lovren, PAOK have already transferred Tiemoue Bakayoko (played at Chelsea, AC Milan, Napoli) and Omar Colley (played at Besiktas, Sampdoria), the captain of the Gambia national team.