It was planned that Vladimir Aleshin himself would answer questions from fans in the traditional Third Half (a meeting of players and black and white leaders with fans). But at the last moment he was replaced by the CEO.
Fans were allowed into the press center. All places were taken. Yuri Mishin sat on the presidium and, out of excitement, tried to speak exclusively in the muted microphone.
“And how are we going to play now?” - shouted from afar one fan. - What happened to the team. After all, at the beginning of the season it was not so.
“Yeah, justified ... completely,” grumbled one grandfather in the front row.
“Borya, shut up, let the person say it,” they shouted at him from the front row.
- And what happens to the club? How to live on? - they started shouting from places.
“Well, I’ll explain,” Yuri Mishin tried to start.
“Why explain there?” They shouted again. - Who will be responsible for everything ?!
“Stop it,” Angela Biryukova, the club’s press attaché, tried to stop shouts from the audience. - First the answer, then the question. Do not turn everything into a discussion.
“Let me answer,” Yuri Mishin asked. - I will tell. This offseason, we invited people for whom the Premier League clubs fought. But the newcomers did not live up to expectations.
- Why did Panov leave? - immediately interrupted him.
- What did you bring us for the players? - one of the women asked rather loudly.
- Yes, shut up you, let the person say, - suddenly one of the fans could not stand it.
- Why was Panov removed? someone shouted again. - They would add him a salary. And he would play.
One of the fans began to tell Yuri Mishin the story of how he came home after the matches, and two of his children ran up and asked what the score was.
“I answered them: two - zero,” said an exemplary family man. - And they immediately said who scored. These are Panov and Semshov.
“Do you know who says that?” - Suddenly cried out another fan of the club. - Yes, he dressed his children in banners, torpedo scarves and leads to the stadium.
“I can say about Panov,” Yuri Mishin tried tiredly to begin. - Negotiations were conducted with Panov, but did not agree on the conditions.
- So what? - the whole hall was worried. - Who did you bring us? Pehnu, Skochibusic!
“My fault,” Mishin admitted.
- Why didn’t you buy the game? - Suddenly one of the fans screamed. - I had to buy matches. All buy up.
“We were no worse than Amkar and Spartak from Nalchik,” Yuri Mishin again tried to analyze the season. But he was not given.
“And they all bought it,” they started shouting from the ground. - How much is our budget? Khimki has 43 million dollars. Kuban has the same amount.
- Why do you think so? - marveled Yuri Mishin. - There have never been such amounts.
“I live on Vernadsky Avenue,” suddenly one of the fans stood up. He hardly managed to maintain an upright position. - And we ride the subway with Andrei Stepanov. I talked to him three times. He said that since the middle of last season, Yuri (meaning Yuri Mishin - A.Sh.) and Sergey (Sergey Petrenko - A.Sh.) cannot look him in the eye.
- Edik, what are you talking about, shut up! - Suddenly someone from a far corner began to yell at the fan.
- And what? I want to say what I know. I live on Vernadsky Avenue.
“This was not there,” Mishin began to boil.
The meeting went on for almost an hour. Finally, the CEO gave the fans Torpedo T-shirts. The first to rush after them are those who accused the leadership of mediocrity throughout the meeting.
Alexey Shevchenko