general manager “Lada” Alexander Chebotarev, in an interview with , said that he is not a supporter of hiding information from the public. He therefore immediately answered the question about the club’s salary debts.
In November, Chebotarev told that the club had paid off all its salary debts. On Tuesday, KHL President Alexei Morozov said in an interview with that the league had financial guarantees for three years that Lada would have the means to survive. Earlier in November it was announced that Chebotarev would leave Lada.
— After rumors emerged that Lada was in salary arrears, you quickly confirmed the information in a comment on . Usually such statements are not much encouraged at the top. Has anyone complained to you about this?
— You know, the KHL already knew the debt information, because we provide a financial report when executing the budget declared to the league. We just have to point it out. And it would be a mistake to hide your debts when asked a direct question, especially in the age of technology.
We see that today figures on contracts and transactions are leaked in the press and on Telegram channels, sometimes they are true. Wriggling like a frying pan is not my level of action and work, so it will cost me more to deceive the public. It is better to tell the truth, whatever it may be, than to lie, and in a few hours they will present you with exactly the opposite data.
— It seems that Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev was very surprised at a meeting of the government of the Samara region when he learned about the debts. And he immediately demanded to understand the situation and solve your problem.
“It was probably a surprise to the governor.” It could not be otherwise since I did not inform him directly of the debts. And when he learned about the situation at the meeting, he set himself the task of immediately closing the debts. Moreover, the money was paid within three days of the government meeting, even before the date communicated to us. Instead of November 18, we paid off our debts on the 15th.
But I had no malicious intent in hiding information from the head of the region, because it was already in the public domain. Your colleague called me and asked me a direct question, I had to answer him: “Wait, I’m going to take a break, notify my manager, and then shall we talk?
— In a football club, despite constant debts, management says everything is going well. And at the same time, they are regularly prohibited from registering new arrivals. This is how they live.
– This is abnormal and unprofessional. Not because people do not have the skills, but because if there is not enough money, then, in my opinion, there is no need to deceive anyone, but to live within your means, to play where there is enough money,” Chebotarev said. Match the TV.
Lada occupies ninth place in the Eastern Conference standings with 25 points.
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Source : MatchTV
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