Shakhtar Donetsk CEO talks Tottenham, FIFA and Super League
Shakhtar Donetsk CEO Serhii Palkin discusses Tottenham's signing of Manor Solomon and the failed Super League.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:10 We should all understand that Tottenham signed a player
00:16 with market value of minimum 18 million euro.
00:19 This market value, he reached because of our club.
00:23 Because one moment we invested in him, brought him to Ukraine,
00:28 developed him.
00:29 I had quite long negotiations with Tottenham.
00:33 To be honest, I'm tired a little bit about these negotiations.
00:38 At this moment, I'm awaiting their last feedback.
00:42 Finally, we will have just two ways--
00:44 or accept what they propose, or we'll go to court.
00:49 In this situation, we have legal issues,
00:53 and we have moral issues.
00:55 From my point of view, when a member of football family
00:58 has problems, you should meet this kind of moral issues
01:03 first.
01:04 And after that, you should pay attention to legal issues.
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01:12 FIFA can do a lot, much more than they can even imagine.
01:20 We are trying to negotiate with FIFA.
01:23 We are president of European Club Association, Mr. Masser.
01:28 And he promised us to help.
01:31 And we said directly to FIFA that we are not
01:34 pushing you to give us--
01:36 to our club to return back this money.
01:39 Let's organize solidarity fund for Ukraine,
01:42 for Ukrainian football.
01:44 Because of war, you see that we lost a lot
01:46 of football infrastructure.
01:48 FIFA, you know, promoting everywhere slogans
01:51 that we are one family.
01:53 But Ukraine is part of family.
01:55 And we need to have support.
01:57 And what you did?
01:59 You just cut us, you know?
02:02 Just take our players, push us to pay all debts.
02:09 Create situation when clubs like Lyon taking our player,
02:14 Tete, using Annex 7, and sell him to Leicester.
02:20 We are knocking to a FIFA door a long time.
02:24 And I hope that one day, one moment,
02:27 this door will be opened.
02:28 I don't understand this Super League.
02:36 I don't understand what kind of essence they have.
02:40 I don't understand why we need to change something.
02:43 If you look 10 years ago and today, they developed a lot.
02:48 And in a good way.
02:49 And they're raising all this amount of money that we receive.
02:52 They're increasing the number of games.
02:55 They're increasing the number of competitions.
02:57 Because Conference League, you know, for example,
03:00 before we had no 8-22, where they push us.
03:04 Don't go to stadiums just to switch on TV
03:08 and see the top, top clubs playing between each other.
03:13 And that's it.
03:14 These clubs are rich.
03:15 And they become much, much richer.
03:17 And another one disappears.
03:20 But this, what we are talking about, about Super League,
03:22 it's not about the game.
03:23 It's just about money.
03:25 It's purely about money.
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