vice-president CSKA Natalia Furaeva told that the Moscow club never made an offer for striker Devon Akun-Purcell.
Earlier, 31-year-old Akun-Purcell told the media that CSKA showed serious interest in him this summer, but he chose UNICS. The basketball player signed a contract with Kazan in June under the “1+1” scheme. Over the past two years, he has played for Lokomotiv-Kuban Krasnodar.
— Traditionally, every year we learn from the press which players CSKA is interested in. I want to clarify: in order to start considering candidates for vacancies on the team roster, you first need to know their status. That is why I call a large number of agents. It often becomes known that CSKA is interested in someone. OK. In this particular case, it was surprising that Akun-Purcell himself said that he rejected our offer and chose UNICS.
I officially declare: we never made him an offer, although we followed him closely. He is a good player, he is well known and highly appreciated by Andreas Pistiolis, under whose leadership Devon played at Galatasaray. At the same time, in terms of his role and characteristics, he did not fit into our team image at all, which we informed his agent, who actively offered him to us at the beginning of this summer,” Furaeva told .
At the end of the 2023/24 season, CSKA became the United League champion, beating UNICS in the final series with a score of 4-1.
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