THE Kostas Sloukas He gave a big interview to Demi Nikolaidis and Demis Dialogues, in which his leader Panathinaic Aktor referred to his departure from Olympiacos and his transfer to Clover.
Kostas Sloukas opened his heart to Demi Nikolaidis and described what has been done in recent years in his career. He talked about his departure from Olympiacos in 2015 about Fenerbahce, his return to Piraeus and his move to the Greens in the summer of 2023.
The international Greek guard explained that he went to Panathinaikos, among other things, to show Olympiacos that he had been wrong.
What Kostas Sloukas said to Demi Nikolaidis and Demis Dialogues about his journey from Olympiacos to Fener and Olympiacos in Panathinaikos: “When I left Olympiacos, I went to Fener, I chose a coach who believed me more. That is, my time at Olympiacos was limited when I left to go to Fener.
He was Vasilis (Spanoulis) then at his best, he was the best player in Europe. So what will the coach do, will Basil put me? I didn’t know it. So my challenge was to leave Olympiacos to go to a team with a good environment with a coach who believes me and show things. It really happened and I think I had a very good upward trend.
Imagine that when Zeljko Obradovic’s appointment was made there was a nice story, I have never told her. We meet to talk, he came to Athens. I was free, I had no contract, I was free to hear whoever I wanted. I talked to the coach of Olympiacos first, he analyzed his plan, it wasn’t what I wanted to hear, though I appreciate Yiannis Spheropoulos a lot, he is an excellent coach. He could lie to me, but he told me the truth. This is what I appreciate most.
So I meet Zeljko Obradovic, he tells me ‘In 1 you will be with Bobby Dixon, 2 is Bogdanovic, he told me the whole team, without even talking financially, nothing. I tell him ‘I’m a king at Olympiacos’, because we had a championship, I was very good, I found myself in the best five and we had a final Euroleague. That is, I am in my house, I feel good.
Anyway, the presidents would give me some good money, that is, I felt good. All I was missing was the role of the racing. I tell him ‘will I play?’ He tells me “you will play me”. And I give hands and leave the appointment, I take my manager, who is also my lover now, I say ‘it’s over, I agreed’. He tells me ‘what did you agree?’ I tell him ‘we will go to Fener’ and we had not talked about money or anything. Imagine I agreed without knowing the proposal and the money. However, it was very wrong as a move, because I agreed without knowing financial proposal.
After five years, he closes Fener’s chapter and opens a new one to Olympiacos. Panathinaikos has always been all this time … There has always been the distinctive annoyance of the governors, not to me, to my manager, that he ‘looked, we want him to Panathinaikos, openly for money what he always wants’, we have been talking for 15 years now. Many years.
I didn’t even hear Panathinaikos. It is a very big team, but I respected Olympiacos. I see in front of me a very big proposal to Olympiacos, who is in A2. It doesn’t have a good team. I see the big challenge and I say I will go there to help Olympiacos. I remember not even good names at Olympiacos then, it was Basil at his finish, it was George at his finish. Think I lost enough money to go to Olympiacos, I had a very good suggestion from Real Madrid, but the challenge was Olympiacos.
Let’s say the woman finds me ‘you could go to Real Madrid’. The challenge was to go to a Final Four with Olympiacos, I went to Olympiacos and then we got to them. Olympiacos does not want me and leaves me free in a bad way, this has been done, I do not want to refer to details. So I find a great opportunity to go just opposite and show them that they have been wrong. And I think that both history and fate brought things like that, not even writing them so well.
It was a huge challenge, I had a hard time in the middle of the year with injuries, the team went through it too, but in the end what happened was … to put 25 in the Euroleague final and put 30 in the final final with Olympiacos, I was writing, I think I didn’t write it so well. I think my fate was very good at me. “