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Official: FC St. Pauli's Saliakas rejoins Olympiacos The Greek full-back leaves the Hanseatic club behind having scored 9 goals and produced 12 assists in 120 appearances. | Photo: Selim Sudheimer/Getty Images. | Manolis Saliakas will not be assisting FC St. Pauli in their bid to make an instant return to the Bundesliga next season. Instead, the 29-year-old is returning to his native Greece and boyhood club, Olympiacos Piraeus who confirmed the signing today. The four-time Greek international full-back previously played for Olympiacos for six years between 2013 and 2019. Reportedly, the Greek club will pay a transfer fee of around €1.5million in total to the Hamburg-based club. Saliakas joined St. Pauli from PAS Giannina on a free transfer in the summer of 2022 and made a total of 120 competitive appearances.