Former President of Torpedo Ilya Gerkus in an interview with , he said the club’s transfer failures during the winter window turned into a willingness to take on all newcomers.
Herkus led the Blacks and Whites as president from August 2022 to March 2023. Now “Torpedo” closes the WORLD RPL standings with 7 points in 18 rounds.
– We signed Zhuravlev, Shlyakov, Kukharchuk, proposed by head coach Talalaev, and Belarusian Yuzepchuk. But all this does not matter, because the main objective remained an autonomous, fast, powerful central attacker and a “ten” with a pass.
We were ready to spend a significant part of the budget on the striker, as he seemed to be the main figure in the winter selection, the key to the rivals’ goal. For a long time they did not find candidates. It turned out that in Russia the harsh realities of the market are underestimated. Everyone is used to a certain amount of “Nordic allowance”, but now it’s different. You offer a standard one – they refuse, they want a lot more. In winter, we had about ten refusals only from the centre-forwards.
They would have thrown money, maybe they would have signed one of the players in discussion, but we had a refusal – we moved on to the next one. Until it smacks of a fiasco. In the last weeks of the transfer window, no one blocked anyone, they were ready to take everyone on.
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Source : MatchTV
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