Ukrainian edition football.ua-'s request to comment on the situation around the legionnaires, Mariupol "Illichivets" head coach Nikolai Pavlov responded: "What more can I say about them."
However, finally he agreed to specify what he meant when he said, after the match in Dnepropetrovsk, that the club was breaking off the collaboration with the Georgians.
- How to understand your phrase that Okriashvili and Targamadze did not return to the team?
- You apparently do not understand: I meant, that they returned but with traumas. They got traumas in the Georgian national team and we must treat them.
- Everyone thought that they were not physically return?
- No, I already explained what I meant.
- There is nothing surprising, because the players get traumas in the national team matches and then the clubs treat them. It turns out that the reason is other?
- Of course, the other. There term of playing on loan expired. The guys think that they grew up for “Illichivets”. They have some grand plans: Somebody in Georgia said them that the serie A is awaiting them.
- In terms of human resources is this a serious loss for you? Or you already have been accustomed playing without them?
- It is clear that this is a serious loss. We are starting the transfer window again with losses: player who were in the lineup also left in summer and are still going. However, for some reason journalists do not write about it.
Lasha Tabagari