Pakhtakor Tashkent head coach Maksim Shatskikh commented on his team's winning the title of Uzbekistan champion.
Maxim Shatskikh"This season turned out to be not even for us, we faced difficulties. We lost a lot of points and conceded a lot of goals. It worries me that we allowed our opponents to score so many times. So this championship was not easy for us.
We are attracting new players to the team. We have made a plan for ourselves in this regard and we are striving to realise it. Next season the team will change completely. You will see a stronger and more aggressive team. I have repeated many times that it is difficult to buy good players in the winter transfer window. The reason is that many championships run their seasons according to the autumn-spring system, and their teams have quality players. In the middle of the year, it becomes a difficult task to find good candidates.
We have held talks with Suarez and Cavani. But understand one thing: it is difficult for many good players to come to Uzbekistan. Inviting a star player is not a problem, but securing him is. The best player should have teammates of his level next to him. For example, Messi can easily play without teammates. The rest can't. "Pakhtakor can easily bring a top player to Uzbekistan, but a number of problems prevent it. A star player wants top-level conditions.
We have big plans, you can't imagine what they are. But I will not tell you about our goals in advance. You will know about them later. In our country such plans cannot be realised quickly. It takes some time," Pakhtakor's official website quoted Shatskikh as saying.
