Commercial Director of Dnipro-1 Vyacheslav Fridman commented on the transfer of Oleksandr Pikhalenko to Dynamo Kyiv.
Vyacheslav Fridman- Tell us about Shakhtar's status in Pikhalenko's transfer to Dynamo. Insiders said that Dnipro-1 had to agree on the transfer with the Donetsk club.
- "I heard that Burbas accused Dnipro-1 of colluding with Dynamo, but we don't have any fools at the club to mess with Shakhtar's powerful legal department and penalties. This is nonsense.
Dynamo approached us with an offer. We met with Surkis and discussed everything. I explained to him that under the terms of the contract we signed with Shakhtar when we bought Oleksandr, we had to notify the Donetsk club.
We did everything honestly, we informed them. "Shakhtar thought about it and in response decided to make a reverse transfer of Pikhalenko. But, as I understand it, they could not reach an agreement with the player.
After that, Shakhtar sent us a letter saying that they were not against the transfer. We just need to confirm the correctness of the figure [transfer amount]. We didn't care whether we sold Pikhalenko to Dynamo or Shakhtar. He had a year left on his contract, so we had to sell him.
- Are you ready to name the amount paid for Oleksandr?
- No, we are not. Let Dynamo name the amount. Or Shakhtar. I don't want to name any figures.
- Is it true that in return, Dnipro-1 will rent Supryaga and Benito from Dynamo?
- Supryaga - maybe. There is a certain vision for him. He played with us, and Supryaha is not averse to playing with us, as they say.
I can't say anything about Benito at the moment. Maybe we will rent someone else from Dynamo. They have too many players.
- Will the transfer ban prevent this?
- No, we are solving all the issues. We have money in our accounts, it's just the difficulties of withdrawing currency from Ukraine.
- Do you know who else will leave Dnipro-1 after Pikhalenko?
- Right now Volynets is on the way out, and we want to develop Kinareikin. Svatok, most likely.
We already know about Hutsulyak, Babenko. Filippov is thinking about the offer. Otherwise, everyone who is under contract with us stays. And those who have a year or a year and a half left - we are talking to them now.
Oleksiy ALEXANDROV
