Finally, after more than a month and a half of back and forth, anger, tantrums, alleged losses or the failed arrival of a great figure like the Serbian Luka Jovic, Cruz Azul decided to loan the Greek Giorgos Giakoumakis to PAOK in his country and keep the Uruguayan Gabriel Fernandez.

This whole series of vicissitudes in the sky-blue team ended this Wednesday officially with the announcement of the departure of the Greek striker and the arrival to the Hellenic team in a loan negotiation with an option to buy after the high cost of the signing that the European striker had from Atlanta United of the Major League Soccer (MLS).

With the official withdrawal of Giakoumakis, who arrived 10 months ago to Liga MX and who had a step without pain or glory with 1,795 minutes where he only scored eight goals and on most occasions showed himself to be prone to muscle injuries, which ended up complicating his adaptation to a country in which from the beginning he felt strange.

As will be remembered, his signing was around $ 28 million dollars in a negotiation that a few days ago revealed unofficial details and where there was too much controversy due to the amounts that were paid for a 30-year-old player and with a tendency to get injured frequently.

In this way Cruz Azul made official the departure of striker Giorgos Giakoumakis, after a long wait where many things were said and at all times it was assured that his place as Not Trained in Mexico (NFM) would be occupied by the former Real Madrid, Fiorentina and AC Milan player Luka Jovic, who ended up signing with AEK Athens also of the Greek League.

Finally with the departure of Giakoumakis, the technical team of the Machine headed by the Argentine Nicolas Larcamon who never had the Greek in his plans, decided to register the Uruguayan Gabriel Fernandez who was separated from the Under 21 team of the cement workers, but now he can be taken into account for the game against Santos Laguna on matchday five of the 2025 Apertura tournament of the Liga MX.

The official farewell

In this way, when the loan with PAOK was finalized, Cruz Azul published the following message on social networks: "We wish you much success in this stage with PAOK, Giorgos," while the Greek team officially presented the Hellenic forward, who even wore the number 7 shirt to join his new squad.

Even the Greek forward was given a star welcome at PAOK, hoping that he will perform on the field what he could not show in Mexican football due to different circumstances, but above all because of the culture shock he suffered and that His situation became increasingly complicated due to injuries, and he ended up being just a numerical reference in the sky-blue squad.