Fulham joins the hunt for Charisteas

While Stelios Giannakopoulos is on his way out of the Barclays Premier League, Fulham FC is apparently set to keep the Greek status quo in the Premier League to at least one. The Craven Cottage side has targeted Nuremberg’s Angelos Charisteas as their next winter acquisition, and while many suitors were interested in the Greek’s services, it now appears this English outfit will in fact follow through with their desires.

With a price tag of around two million euros, it appears the fee for Charisteas’ services left a sour taste for previous potential buyers. While the likes of Bologna FC, Chievo Verona, Stoke City, and Hull City didn’t settle on Nuremberg’s demands, reports from England, Germany, and Charisteas’ native Greece portray the move as near complete.

Though Charisteas’ monumental order of success has come with country and not with club, Greece’s golden boy has been searching for a new destination to resume his career. With his side scrapping it out in the second division of German football, Charisteas is on the verge of making a giant leap to the most watched league in the world.

While Nuremberg is not in much of a hurry to sell their Greek star, at least according to Nuremberg’s director Martin Bader. As he said in an earlier interview, Bader once again revealed Nuremberg were content with keeping Charisteas. “We are in no rush to sell Angelos and Fulham is in no rush to buy,” Bader told German news site Abendzeitung.

Although similar situations which linked Charisteas to a handful of clubs deteriorated at the eleventh hour, Charisteas could be making the move to West London ahead of the February 2^nd transfer deadline.