Former Torpedo chairman Ilya Gerkus in an interview with said he doesn’t see the club’s prospects in the RPL due to the low level of players.
In July 2022, Herkus was appointed Director of Strategic Development for Torpedo. A month later, he becomes president of the “blacks and whites” and remains in this position until March 1, 2023. At the moment, Torpedo closes the WORLD RPL ranking, scoring 7 points after 18 rounds.
– At the request of the club’s board of directors, I watched several games of Torpedo in the first league and I did not hide it: the team is very weak, if you go to the RPL, then most of the players will have to be changed, form a new team.
I didn’t pull the composition to the RPL, what can you do. Soon, Torpedo won a ticket to the major leagues, and it reminded me of that conversation: “We can!”. – “Look at it that way, I won’t change my mind.” A little later, future colleagues announced that they were going to keep the composition that solved the problem. “You’re right. The prediction is for a point in the first ten rounds and a repeat of Rotor’s fate in the 2020/21 season. (“Torpedo” scored a point in the first nine rounds. -” MatchTV”).
– Why did you accept to work in a club with a hopeless composition?
– When he agreed to take over development, he asked me to stay away from the sports component and the main team as much as possible. Realizing how it would all end, I didn’t want to be associated with the results. And I did not see the point of thanking the coach and the players for the season in the elite, such a formulation sounded great. It was easier to buy them presents than to throw them under the rink. FNL and RPL are fundamentally different tournaments, there is no need to reward at all for winning in one participation in another. There was no face on Borodyuk in the first rounds, he tormented himself on the bench, what recognition. The person suffered physically.
– If the level of the players is the cause of the initial failure, why was it necessary to dismiss Borodyuk, who completed the task last year? Or could he perform better with this line-up and then is he really to blame?
– It was impossible to do better, I think. In the first seven rounds, we conceded more than three goals four times, what can I say? They pulled off a draw with the Wings only because six of them fell ill with covid. They played flawlessly. And when they started discussing the situation with the leaders, there seemed to be momentum in their views. It seemed like people were starting to understand where everything was going, gaining experience, and were ready to change something. Then he agreed to take the post of president of the club.
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