About his relationship with Ivan Jovanovich but also its design Panathinaikou spoke about the new season Yannis Alafouzos.
The strong man of Panathinaikos spoke to him News Bulletin 247 and Vaios Tsuchikas, commenting how “We have an excellent relationship with the coach, we talk 2-3 times a week”as well as that the Serbian technician “our coach changed the team, he tried to protect the interests of Panathinaikos. He didn’t want to bring 20 players, even if I could.”
From then on, he talked about “unacceptable arbitrations” and “lack of sensitivity of the team that stuck us with Covid”while for the design of the “greens” he explained that “it has started since January”.
Analytically:
“I congratulated Mr. Jovanovic because we were first and we all saw how we ended up second. He changed the team and brought it back to the level it should be. We agreed to make immediate transfers to strengthen the team. Our coach tried to protect the interests of Panathinaikos.
He didn’t want to bring 20 players, even if I could bring. And as a matter of timing, we were late in making some transfers. With any delays, however, the team was first in so many competitions. If someone told us last year that the team would be second and lose the championship due to unfair competition conditions, we would be talking about progress.
We have an excellent relationship with the coach, we talk 2-3 times a week on the phone. I trust my teammates and I always try to do what the coach asks of me. The weight he had this year was huge and if there weren’t some unacceptable refereeing and also Covid, which was a matter of bad luck and insensitivity of the team that stuck us and the other teams in the playoffs, maybe we would be talking differently. There was no team that liked Panathinaikos, but we know who was the leader in this dishonest transaction. Mr. Melissanidis! A team does not belong to one person, it belongs to its fans. We have always had good relations with AEK, they have been relegated because they did not pay their debts like we did.
Planning has not started now, but after January. We have come to some things and we want by June 15 to have made the 3-4 critical transfers that we want to make and then make some more.”
Source: Sport Fm
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