Odysseas Vlachodimos joined Nottingham Forest from Benfica for £7.7m on Deadline Day; Greece No 1 to compete with Matt Turner at the City Ground; watch Nottingham Forest vs Burnley on Monday Night Football, live on Sky Sports from 6.30pm; kick-off 7.45pm
But a closer inspection of the 29-year-old's career suggests that, in a window where Chelsea paid £25m for Robert Sanchez and Arsenal agreed a £27m future fee for David Raya, Forest may have pulled off a coup.FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from Nottingham Forest's win against Chelsea in the Premier League ahead of the international break
Vlachodimos also played every minute of the Lisbon side's run to the Champions League quarter-finals in the past two seasons, including wins over Barcelona, Ajax and Juventus. But that progress came an abrupt halt after Benfica fell to a surprise 3-2 defeat at Boavista on the opening weekend of the season, with Roger Schmidt, the coach, publicly criticising his goalkeeper.
Despite being linked with Manchester United, it was Forest that sealed the deal, with Marinakis - the Greek shipping magnate who also owns Olympiacos - swooping in to sign the Greece No 1, who is said to have long dreamed of making the move to the Premier League.
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