Former boss of Moscow, Rostov and Lokomotiv Youri Belous called the cause of failure “Torpedo” unproductive transfer system and distrust of managers towards each other.
Ilya Gerkus took office as president of the Blacks and Whites on August 18, 2022. On March 1, 2023, he left Torpedo on the proposal of the board of directors.
– The reasons for the dismissal of Herkus are in the fog for me, – the correspondent quotes Belous as saying. – When transfer issues are decided by vote, don’t expect good. Especially if some of the voters are people far from football who watched it “from the Eiffel Tower”. In these matters, a clear vertical line is needed, in which the president and the head coach play the leading roles. The four voters are the Krylov Quartet. At some point, disagreements are okay, but in the end, someone is forced to make a unique decision. And that someone should be fully responsible for the outcome.
The winter break is over. Has Torpedo gotten stronger with such a control model? On the contrary, it weakens with the departure of Smolnikov. The team is in last place, and 40-year-old Lebedenko saves it – these are the fruits of the club’s labor. They decided to play it safe and came up with a self-locking system. But there’s no fault of Herkus in that, he played by someone else’s rules. Many were skeptical about his arrival at Lokomotiv, to be honest. At one point I also thought his ceiling was second or third in the club, IT, marketing, etc. And the man has won gold medals, proving he is a successful manager.
Since Herkus was invited to Torpedo, he had to be given some serious powers and left at least until the end of the season. Now few doubts that Torpedo will fly away from the RPL. It takes a miracle to stay. Like at Torpedo-Metallurg in 2003, when I was president of the club. With 10 laps to go, they were in last place, 7 points behind the 14th savior. In the end, they managed to hold on.
I wish the same to (head coach) Talalaev, whose work I treat with sympathy. But it will be very difficult. A team of like-minded people is not visible in Torpedo, and without it, big tasks cannot be solved.
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