CSKA does not plan to provide favorable conditions for foreign basketball players to become the VTB United League champion next season at all costs, said the president of the Moscow club Andrey Vatutin .
Last season, the army club lost in the final series against Zenit Saint-Petersburg (3-4), which won the title for the first time in history.
– Many may disagree with me, but I consider it a much more ambitious task and a serious challenge to trust young people more, to test themselves in new conditions, than to fill everything with money, to overpay the stars and win the VTB League at all costs. Yes, we will do our best to win the title, but only according to the possibilities we have today. Not the whole economic situation to overclock the budget and even the centenary year of the club at all costs to hang a medal around his neck and then consider himself a superhero. We will seek by trial and error a difficult compromise between the result, the playing time and the development of the Russians. All fans and specialists should understand this and be patient. There is no other way today.
We decided for ourselves that during the selection campaign CSKA will not compensate newcomers for the absence of the Euroleague with money, it is useless. Yes, our priority has always been the Euroleague, and if there is no Euroleague, there is an opportunity to think about development, to give more chances to Russian basketball players. We took as many Russians as we could. Frankly, I wanted more, but that’s the deal, someone preferred to stay in one place, for someone it was not possible to find financial understanding.
Previously, excess was greater than necessary. That is to say, with the usual high level of the club and the team, we were constantly looking for some kind of X-factor, another link that would allow us to get a little closer to the title. . This can be an “additional” star player or an organizational move. Now everything has changed. We focus on the necessary, get rid of the superfluous, Vatutin said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Russian clubs will not be allowed to participate in the Euroleague in the new season due to the situation in Ukraine.
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Source : MatchTV
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