Darijo Srna: "Ukrainians don't just hand over territories to Russia, and Shakhtar cannot agree to hand over their players"

Shakhtar Director of Football Darijo Srna spoke about the position of UEFA and its President Oleksandr Čeferin regarding the FIFA rules.

“From the first day of the war, Čeferin helped a lot to get our foreign players out. And three days later I went to Geneva, met with him and asked that we not lose the players. For his part, he did everything he could. So...

I am not a lawyer, but I can say that FIFA has adopted a non-compromising rule. This law is not for our benefit, but for the benefit of others, so that they get our players plus or minus for free. This is unfair and wrong. Each club must be respected, be it Minay, Rukh, Shakhtar, Barça, Real Madrid or Chelsea. We hope that it will not come to court, and some kind of compromise will be found.

We don't want someone else's, but we just don't give away our own either. Ukrainians do not just give up their territories to Russia. And we also cannot agree to give away all our players, for whom we paid a lot of money, brought them up, played the Champions League with them. This is generally unfair, and even more so in this situation,” Srna said.