T&T striker Levi Garcia of Greece Super League club AEK Athens, and recent winner of the T&T Football Association's (TTFA) men's "Player of the Year" award for 2022 is once again rumoured to be the subject of transfer speculation among a host of European clubs.
The 25-year-old Garcia who join the Greek club in 2020 from Israel's Beitar Jerusalem and scored five goals in his first season followed by seven last season has so far netted 12 goals in League and Cup competition combined, along with four assists in 21 games.
And it is because of this rich vein of form he has been attracting attention for months, with more suitors at each match, while many scouts will also come to a match against Ionikos on Sunday to watch it.
It was reported that in the derby match with Panathinaikos on January 8, the T&T international was watched live by people from Wolfsburg (Germany), Real Sociedad (Spain), Villarreal (Spain), Bologna (Italy), Benfica (Portugal), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal), and Stuttgart of Germany.
In fact, it was Wolfsburg who, in the summer of 2021, made an offer of €6m initially and finally €8m to buy him from AEK Athens, and received a negative response, and despite their offer being turned down Wolves have not forgotten the international ace and could return.
Garcia currently has a contract with AEK until the summer of 2025 in which no clause is provided, but his former club Beitar Jerusalem maintains a resale rate of 40 percent.
It is stated that AEK Athens, commonly known as the ‘yellow and black’ is not even discussing selling Garcia at this stage, and for them to think about it in the summer a much larger offer of €10m would have to be made.
However, some believe that if AEK plays in a European group in the new season and the Santa Flora-born Garcia does what he does this year, his price will rise even more.