Shakhtar CEO Serhiy Palkin said the club's financial damage due to FIFA's decisions after the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.
Sergey Palkin"We risk losing investments of around €80m. So far we have lost 40 million.
Imagine the absurdity of the situation: according to the rules of Appendix 7, one of our players (Tete) signed for free with Lyon when he had one year left on his contract with us, and six months later Lyon gave him on a six-month loan to Leicester and earned €1 million. That was our money! We contacted FIFA but they didn't react. "Lyon got the money for the player we invested in.
Another case is Solomon: his market value, according to Transfermarkt, is €20 million. It was our club that created that value by signing him, developing him and giving him the opportunity to play in the Champions League.
And now Tottenham have also signed him on a free transfer and FIFA have essentially backed that. "FIFA says that in football we are a family, but today Shakhtar are outside that family," Palkin said," Palkin said in an interview with Spanish publication El Pais.
