UNICS president Bogachev says the club will try to keep the six foreigners in the squad

President UNICS Yevgeny Bogachev in an interview with , he said that the Kazan club will try to keep all their foreigners in the off-season.

Legionnaires Jalen Reynolds, Daryl Macon, Marcos Knight, Vince Hunter (all Americans), Louis Labery (France) and Nenad Dimitrijevic (North Macedonia) play for UNICS.

– Will the UNICS be overhauled next season?

We have six foreigners according to the limit. I would try to leave them all. With the Russians, it’s a little different, we want to look for talent in the Super League and in the youth championship. This component needs to be strengthened, address the problem. All current players are good and would definitely be useful, but after wins the price increases for them.

People don’t come to us for a big salary, my budget is lower than many Russian clubs. I will not quote the amounts, but it is public information, we are fourth in terms of funding in the VTB United League. Naturally, after the gold medals, the players and the coach are solicited, they are offered higher conditions. Realities must be taken into account.

But people like Nenad Dimitrievich, of course, want to keep. He himself wants to stay, although he is on loan with us. Young, with a winning instinct, his child was born in Kazan, he loves our city. Kazan is not inferior to Europe in terms of beauty, convenience and nature, we have the Volga, Kazanka, Kama, forests, infrastructure, roads, interchanges … Many people want to stay, but what is the price of the problem? He is growing,” Bogachev said in an interview with .

In the 2022/23 VTB United League season, UNICS became the champions for the first time in their history. The last playoff series against Lokomotiv-Kuban ended with a 4-1 win for Kazan.

Live broadcasts of VTB United League matches were broadcast by and other holding channels, as well as sportbox.ru and matchtv.ru websites.