Agent of basketball player Shved: “We have not received any offers from Russia. Personally, I was offended.”

Agent Obrad Fimich, representing the interests of Russian basketball player Shanxi Lungs Alexei Shved said in an interview with that after his client left CSKA Moscow, he did not receive any offers from VTB United League clubs.

The 34-year-old Swede left CSKA Moscow this summer and joined Shanxi, which plays in the Chinese Basketball Federation (CBA), at the end of October.

— Given the considerable interest from Euroleague teams, the question arises: was there really no possibility of remaining in the VTB United League?

— We have not received any offers. It turns out that the most successful Russian player of the last ten years, the best basketball player in the country after Kirilenko, did not receive any offers from Russia! ALL RIGHT. But he discovered new horizons and took a new step in his career by settling in China. Now it appeals to Chinese fans. This could be heard during one of the matches, where the crowd chanted “MVP” after his entrance, and then he signed autographs for forty minutes after the match.

— Weren’t you upset by the lack of offers from Russia?

— To be honest, I was personally offended. The Serbian team showed interest. Yes, there is Dushko Ivanovich, under whom Alexey played his best basketball in Khimki. But stay. And there were offers from Spain, but not from Russia…

Okay, that’s life. Apparently it was supposed to happen. Over the past four years, we have constantly received offers from Chinese teams. Even when the last contract was re-signed with Khimki, there was a moment when a very good offer came from China. And the real question was whether we were going to leave. It turns out that three years later, he finally found himself in China. What’s happening is what should happen,” Fimich told .