AS<\/a> report that Barcelona are keeping tabs on Pavlidis as the situations of Julian Alvarez and Ferran Torres develop. The Greek, meanwhile, keeps dazzling.<\/p>\nAgainst St Gallen in the second leg of the Europa League second qualifying round, Pavlidis ran riot.<\/p>\n
Benfica had a 2-1 first-leg defeat in Switzerland to overturn, and they did it in style. The Greek striker led the charge with four goals, a “super hat-trick”, as Benfica won 5-0.<\/p>\n
AS were unequivocal: “It was indeed an exceptional night for the Greek striker, in an attempt to tempt Barcelona, who are watching the player with keen interest.”<\/p>\n
If Pavlidis becomes the final target, prising him from Benfica will be anything but simple. Coach Marco Silva and the Portuguese club are banking on him in a season that is already up and running.<\/p>\n
Few strikers outside Europe’s big five leagues score at his rate. In 2025-2026, Pavlidis hit the 30-goal mark for a third season running and cleared 20 goals for a fifth consecutive campaign, spanning his time with AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands and Benfica in Portugal.<\/p>\n
His Alkmaar record tells the story: 25 goals in 2021-2022, 22 in 2022-2023 and 33 in 2023-2024.<\/p>\n
Those numbers convinced Benfica to spend 18 million euros on him. He has justified every cent, scoring 30 goals across his first two seasons with the Portuguese club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greek striker Vangelis Pavlidis has answered Barcelona’s interest in the best way possible: by lighting up the Europa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,4965,25742,25741,85,25739,265,25740],"class_list":["post-63699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-benfica","tag-benfica-vs-st-gallen","tag-europa-league-qualification","tag-laliga","tag-st-gallen","tag-transfers","tag-v-pavlidis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}