Olympiacos Set to Reignite Interest in Wolfsburg Man

According to information from Kostas Nikolakopoulos via TransferFeed, Olympiacos are expected to 'renew' their interest in Wolfsburg's Joakim Mæhle after failing to procure the player earlier in the summer transfer window. 

The Red and Whites initiated simultaneous contacts with the player's entourage and the German side, but talks led nowhere, and Mæhle continued his stay at his current club. 

The Danish full-back spent seven years with Aalborg BK's youth academy before making his senior team debut with the side's first team in 2016. After a season with Aalborg, he transferred to Genk, where he made over 100 appearances, scoring four goals. Mæhle rose to fame playing for Atalanta between 2021 and 2023. Wolfsburg signed him for 13 million euros, but they were asking just 7 million euros, a figure close to his market value when Olympiacos approached him in the summer. 

Thrylos reportedly offered less than the asking price, so the club rejected their subsequent bids. While talks with the player progressed over personal terms, the club and the player never reached an agreement because they could not agree on transfer fees. 

As per an earlier update on TransferFeed, reports from Denmark claimed that Mæhle had reached an initial agreement with Olympiacos, but they were still short of appeasing Wolfsburg's demands, as the player was seen playing regularly for the club without any bureaucratic safeguards. 

More reports are set to emerge in the next few days as the winter transfer window edges closer. 

Meanwhile, in other news, Armando 'Hormiga' Gonzalez scored his first Super League Greece goal in a 1-1 stalemate against PAOK in Olympiacos' final league fixture before the international break. The Mexican striker opened the scoring in the 58th-minute after a well-fought first half, and PAOK rebounded through Andrija Zivkovic's equaliser in the 71st-minute. The points were shared in the match, which left Olympiacos with 23 points across the board, four points short of league leaders Panathinaikos. 

The draw was Olympiacos' second straight winless game following a goalless result with Stade Rennes in the UEFA Europa League. The 0-0 result against Rennes brought head coach Imanol Alguacil's side's nine-game winning run to an end, leaving him to rethink things during the international break.

Olympiacos play Iraklis on Sunday, 22 November, 2026 before their high-profile Europa League fixture against AC Milan on Monday, 26 November, 2026. 

Gonzalez has clearly outplayed Olympiacos' other attacking options till now this season as Alguacil seems to be seeing as a more priority option, reserving him for important matches while fielding Roman Yaremchuk for the less intense fixtures.