CSKA will not pay the players bonus for the Champions League, reports "Your Day". For not getting into the playoffs of the most prestigious European club tournament, red-blue president Yevgeny Giner refused to pay bonuses to the players. According to the newspaper, before the home match with “Porto”, the army team unilaterally reviewed the conditions for the bonus team, which was reported to the players at the team meeting. The players were promised to pay the money owed to them, but only for reaching the spring stage. Thus, if CSKA made it to the 1/8 finals, then every CSKA would earn 120 thousand euros. “The president did not specify what would happen if he failed to reach the playoffs,” a TD source said. “Therefore, the team waited until the last for money, even if not in full.”
For eight matches in the Champions League (two in the qualifying round and six in the group stage), the army team earned 6.2 million euros from UEFA. In addition, the club treasury replenished by 2 million euros for entering the group tournament and another 2.4 million for participating in six group matches of the League. “Everyone in the team is well aware of these figures,” the source continues. “And that the management reserves the right to dispose of the funds received at its discretion. But in the same Spartak, premium players were paid after each match, and not based on the results tournament. Honestly, the players were disappointed that they were not rewarded for their efforts. "
Dudu, a midfielder of CSKA and the Brazilian national team, came into Betis’s field of vision, RTVE reports. In the near future, the Spanish club intends to begin negotiations with the army team. Among the contenders for Dudu is also the Roman "Lazio".
ZENIT AND MOSCOW SPARTAK , as well as a number of Bundesliga clubs, have views of the 23-year-old defender of Arminia, Heiko Westermann, RTR-Sport reports. The club from Bielefeld is ready to sell its leading player, but not less than 5 million euros. Westermann’s contract with Arminia expires in 2008.
ALEJANDRO DOMINGES , an attacking midfielder of Rubin, has been offered a new contract, according to which a 25-year-old footballer will receive $ 1.5 million a year, according to Your Day. According to the newspaper, immediately after the championship, not only the Rubin leadership, but also the mayor of Kazan, Ilsur Metshin, tried to persuade the Argentine, who scored 17 goals last season, ahead of schedule to extend the labor agreement expiring in the summer of 2008. But Dominguez refused emphatically, stating that he was not happy with the current salary. “Now Alejandro receives about a million dollars a year,” a TD source said. “But the insider is confident that he earned more by playing last season. Dominguez wants to earn at the level of leading Premier League footballers. And in negotiations with Rubin he’s putting pressure on that potential employers are willing to pay him that amount. If Berdyev still fails to persuade the legionnaire to renew the contract, the Kazan club will most likely sell Alejandro. The fact is that there is good demand from the Zenit side for the Argentinean, "Moscow" and "River Plate", therefore, for his transfer you can get substantial compensation. "
PAVEL KHARCHIK , goalkeeper of Kazan “Rubin”, and a number of potential recruits from the Nalchik “Spartak” refused to go to the retreat camp in Turkey, which will be held from December 14 to 26, says “Your DAY”. According to the newspaper, the players felt that in the absence of the head coach of the red-white Yuri Krasnozhan, who is now studying at the Higher School of Economics, they have nothing to do at the training camp.
Thierry Henry may have been poisoned by polonium, NTV reports citing British media. The home arena of Arsenal - the Emirates Stadium - is often visited by Russian fans, and there have recently been found traces of radiation. A week ago, Henry was injured, but fans suffering from "poliefophobia" suspect that doctors are hiding the true cause of the ailment.
JOSE MOURINU has always treated Italian football with special reverence. And recently, a Chelsea mentor even expressed a desire to head one of the clubs on the Apennines sometime: “I’ve been in Chelsea for the third year - I haven’t worked anywhere for so long. The league that attracts me the most is Series A " It is clear that the coach of the caliber Mourinho can afford to choose, but, according to Sportal, a lively dialogue with the Portuguese “Inter” Portuguese is already underway. Meanwhile, Chelsea CEO Peter Kenyon, according to the Daily Express, is trying to secure the loyalty of the players in advance so that they don’t follow him if Mourinho leaves.
KERBISHLI, BILICH AND HIDDINK , according to The Sun, are the main candidates for the place of West Ham coach Alan Pardew who was fired yesterday. Alan Kerbishli, who is offered a salary of 1 million pounds, will hold talks with the owners of the East London club Eggert Magnusson and Bjorgolf Gudmundsson in the next day. At the same time, the former Charlton mentor is seriously concerned about the excessive impatience and interference in the affairs of the team of Icelandic investors, whose credit for Purdue evaporated after only four games after they bought the club. In addition, businessmen-islanders are considering the second coach of the England team Terry Venables, coach of the national team of Croatia and, by the way, former West Ham defender Slaven Bilic, Russian steering team Guus Hiddink and German Ottmar Hitzfeld. According to BBC World, the main contender for the post of mentor “hammers” is the ex-coach of “Newcastle” and England team Kevin Keegan. Meanwhile, according to the Daily Express, Alan Purdue has already received a million pounds in compensation for an early terminated contract and, according to the Daily Mirror, attracted the attention of Charlton bosses, dissatisfied with the work of Forest Reed.
ASHLEY COLE AND CESC FABREGAS after the Chelsea-Arsenal match started a booze in a telescopic tunnel after the young “gunner” refused to shake hands with his former teammate, The Sun. The players exchanged a couple of affectionate ones still on the field, shortly before the end of the match, and on the way to the locker room it almost came to hand-to-hand combat. In principle, Fabregas’s reaction can be understood: the Spanish playmaker has become one of the objects of ridicule in Cole’s sensational autobiography “My Defense”. The left-back of England, who in August moved from Arsenal to Chelsea with no problems, in particular, wrote: “About Tours, Eboué, Reyes, Fabregas and Senderos nothing is known at all. I don’t even know if they have friends , families and what they do at their leisure ... Vieira’s loss is hard to overestimate. With all due respect to Fabregas, he’s not a couple to Patrick. It's like putting on the featherweight challenger to put on the heavyweight champion’s gloves. " Cole even hinted who threw a slice of pizza at Alex Ferguson during the notorious "battle in the buffet" at Old Trafford in 2004: "I can only say that the attacker was not English and not French, so guess it yourself."
GARY O'NEAL AND SEAN DAVIS , the midfielders of the Premier League's main troublemaker Portsmouth , overgrown with hair, at the beginning of the season vowed not to cut their hair until they scored a goal, the Daily Mirror found out.
PORTSMUT AND BLACKBURN are fighting for PSV's 27-year-old left-back, Michael Ball, Daily Mirror reports. The basis of the Dutch grand former player, “Everton” and “Rangers” rarely gets and dreams of returning to England, where his family lives. Coach “Pompey” Harry Redknapp is ready to shell out for Ball 2 million pounds - the position of left-back in his team is one of the problem.
MADRID'S “REAL ” in pursuit of the River Plate prodigy Fernando Higuain seems to slip not only Fiorentina, but Chelsea, writes Daily Mirror. Jose Mourinho intended to sign the French-Argentine striker during the next transfer window, but Agent Higuain and representatives of the River this week sent to Madrid to conclude a deal of 8 million pounds. It is assumed that Higuine, to whom the royal club is going to offer an 8-year contract, will debut at Santiago Bernabeu in the summer, and will spend the second half of this season at River Plate.
HETAFE expects to acquire Dynamo Kyiv striker and Latvian national team Maris Verpakovsky and Dani striker Betis, claims El Mundo Deportivo.