Former Vorskla head coach Yury Maksimov, in an interview with the TaToTake program, expressed his opinion about agent Alexander Pankov.
Yuri Maksimov- In your coaching career, can you name serious personnel miscalculations?
- I don’t want to remember the football player and his last name, I took him at random. Kulach left us, we needed a forward. And so I looked through everyone from morning until evening.
- What happened?
- They took it, but he turned out not to be the one I need (Aderinsole Eseole - approx.).
- In terms of playing qualities?
- For games, well, and something else. I knew that he liked to sleep. I asked, I knew. At the training camp, they wake him up at 11:00, we have training. And he says: “Why are you waking me up? I'll pay the fine, no problem."
- The footballer's agent Pankov criticized you.
- I don't even want to advertise for them. There are such people - animals. Here he is - a real animal, and you can leave it so that everyone can look.
- Who?
— Pankov. I approached, talked to the football player, I said: "You can play like this, play like that." He replies: “I can’t do that. I stand between two defenders so that the ball comes to me and I can score a goal." I tell him that we have a different football. There was Kulach, there was Stepanyuk - they scored 22 goals against two, they gnawed the ground. We don't have Messi in the center, we have a working team. We select together and start the attack together.
- Did you try to explain this to Pankov?
— Why do I have to explain? He once poured so much dirt on me. I think, well, let the person write. I called him: “Let's meet. You are smart, you called me an old school coach. Here I am, an old man, let's meet in the field, anywhere." He says: "Yes, you will not reach Poltava." Started to scare me. I asked where he was sitting to meet.
