Sotiris Ninis ‒ (Now Playing for Kifisia)

[Greekaroos]

As Akritis 1944 said having his confidence back is important for all these Greek footballers, especially the attacking midfielder playmakers which Greece lack because other than Kostas Fortounis, at Olympiacos most Greek Super League teams have foreigners playing in that playmaker roll. How funny will it be to see Greece beat Belgium due to our players getting their confidence back with regular game time in the Belgian Jupiler League.

[Akritis_1944]

Some random Albanian tweeted to him calling him a"Shqipere" or whatever that blabbling language is called.

Unlike Kone I've never read that Ninis is anything but an ethnic Greek.

[Akritis_1944]

Yes my understanding is his a Northern Epirot. This is what's been claimed for years.

[Akritis_1944]

Exactly, yet modern day Albanians oblivious to their countries history want to claim an ethnic Greek as their own! Borders on being hilarious.

[Tzatziki]

The good thing for him is that he is still relatively young. Can't understand why Pao would let him move on a free, at least they could have sold him for no fee, but with a % of any future transfer. Very weird.

[RED SHERIFF]

did he play well last night?

[Tzatziki]

I never worked for a FC, but it seems like common sense, why lose a club asset for absolutely nothing? You can always try to get some sort of value Nini is no superstar but he surely has some kind of equity.

[Akritis_1944]

He missed a penalty against Karelis' Genk last night. He could have opened the scoring.

F**k him! He's Albanian!

Only kidding.

[Nikitas]

in the 2nd leg match against genk he didnt started and also didnt even saw the field altough they needed a goal and later goals. that cant be for missing that penalty in the 1st leg? or did the coach didnt started him because they started defensively. anyway it didnt worked out.

[Rockafeller Skank]

No coach drops a player because they missed a penalty. Ninis has been playing in many games of late so prob wanted some fresh legs out there, but didn't work out for them

 

"No coach drops a player because they missed a penalty." :P :P :P

[Nikitas]

he is a starter for charleroi and played as cm or am i think against waasland beveren. charleroi played a bad first half but due to a strong performance in the second half of ninis charleroi turned the tide. charleroi won in the last minute with 1-0. where last season he usually got subbed off he now played the full match.

 

http://www.flashscore.com/match/tlPY8XdO/#match-summary

[Dutch Eagle]

Again the full 90 minutes. This time away against Excelsior Mouscron. And again a 1-0 victory.

[Nikod]

I agree. Would love to see him, fortounis and ninis in the same 11 for the NT.

[Dutch Eagle]

Ninis subbed in 74'. Equalizer was in 70'. FT 1:1

[georgelaz]

on his game he can single handedly demolish teams. eg) Aek, Israel

Edited August 13, 2016 by georgelaz

[Nikitas]

friday charleroi grabbed an important point against liege away. good result. they played 0-0 and ninis got subbed off after an hour or so. probably not because he played bad but because ninis is an AM and they were happy with a point. they are second at the moment after 4 matches conceding only 1 goal and scoring 3.

[Nikitas]

^yes he is still at charleroi but he is injured for a while now and i dont know how long he will be out.

[Nikitas]

surprisingly he didnt started , not sure why but he came on after 65 minutes or so. his team won with 3-2 and they are now leading the belgium league.

[georgelaz]

nice to see he's back.

shame that we don't have him in the squad for wcq

especially now that fortounis got knocked

[RED SHERIFF]

If he continues his form he will be picked...
tziolis and maniatis don't have clubs..Skibbe will not pick them if they are not playing regularly

[Brklyngrk]

Whether you like maniatis or not, he does hustle all the time and the team needs his work ethic. When we were losing last year, we sorely needed a guy like that...

[skinny]

i hope he gets his act together.been a real let down. phil said he lacls aggresivewnes and confidence.

[J1078]

WTF is Skibbe thinking not call this guy up. Even if he didn't want to start him the guy should be on the bench. he is better then most players on our team yet he doesn't get called up.

[RED SHERIFF]

Ninis had been poor for the NT for several years and injury prone...I think he was considered done at Int. level.

 

His current form warrants a change of thinking.

[Nikod]

He and mitroglou had a special connection for a bit at the NT level. We are spoiled for choice at the 10 with fortounis (even out of form), mantalos and ninis. Been a while since we could say that...