Burns, 21, has made just five first team appearances since moving to the top Greek side last year following management changes at the club soon after he arrived.

AEK have now sent him out on a one year loan deal to the Corfu club in Greece's second dvision in a bid for him to get some valuable game time and resurrect his career.

Alongside strike partner Brice Djite, Burns was a shining light for Adelaide, especially in 2007 when he became on e of the few A-League stars to net a hat-trick.

But despite being snapped up by AEK in June 2008, both he and Djite were controversially dropped from Australia's Olympics squad at Beijing 2008 by coach Graham Arnold.

Djite has since moved to Turkey but neither has managed to recreate the stunning run of success they had at Adelaide United, andboth have recently dropped off Pim Verbeek's Socceroos radar as well.