Raznatovic: “He got Ataman, so Panathinaikos will go for strong transfers”

His deal Panathinaikou by Ergin Ataman is a harbinger of significant reinforcements in the team’s roster as well, as emphasized by Misko Raznatovic.

“Ergin did nothing without the permission of Ephesus. He is not that kind of person. His relationship with Ephesus is special. In addition, he has not signed in essence, there is an agreement in principle. Ok, there was a post on Instagram (s.s. referring to that of Dimitris Giannakopoulos), but it doesn’t mean much“, the Serbian big agent pointed out to the Basketnews website.

“When you bring in Ataman as a coach, you obviously have big ambitions. The team you have now is weak, so you have to change quite a bit. Obviously, Panathinaikos will enter the market strongly and go for big transfers. Other teams need to change 2-3 players, while they need a lot. Firstly, they don’t have a Greek core and the foreigners are not at the level they would like, not for a team that has Ataman on their bench. So surely Panathinaikos will play an important role in the market“, he added.

At the same time, he made a clarification about a recent statement of his while criticizing him Marius Grigonis for what he said about Dejan Radonic. “I said that Panathinaikos with Radonić wanted hard players, but they got two soft Lithuanians, like Grigonis and Gudaitis. I want to clarify the following: Radonic would like players like Lazic, Lazarevic and Kalinic. The two Lithuanians are soft in front of them. But I didn’t say anything bad with the intention of sending a message about Grigonis. He had some problems with Radonic, it doesn’t matter whose fault it was, but the coach left. And after a month you say the team didn’t have a coach. Why do this; What will you win? Nothing, you’re just hurting this coach. I believe we all need to take care of each other. I’m not saying if he was right or not, but a month after he left, don’t criticize him like that. Especially if you haven’t improved your numbers since then and haven’t done anything special. In today’s age of social media we have to be more careful with our words. It creates a bad image for no reason for a coach. Now we have a bad image for Grigonis. We all want the good of basketball and one should not mess with the other for no reason“, he said.