In… the counterattack has passed Hapoel Tel Aviv after the big issue that arose in the last few hours with him Jonathan Motley.
According to reports from Israel, the American power forward/center has packed up and is preparing to leave without permission from the Israeli club to join the Red Starwho is said to have submitted a proposal to him, although this is not confirmed by the Serbs.
In fact, the owner of Hapoel Tel Aviv, Offer Yanaispoke to Sport Klub, explained how the situation is and warned them red and white of Belgrade for… revenge.
In detail what he said:
“On Wednesday, an agent approached me and said that Motley wants to leave. I asked ‘why?’ and he answered me ‘because of the war’. I said ‘what do you think because of the war?’.Motley likes to go out in Tel Aviv, there are so many girls here, he goes out every night, parties, has fun, puts wine on social media, restaurants, everything… How about about the war? There is no war at the moment and if that is a problem for him, he can stay in Belgrade.
He replied ‘no, no, he wants to leave immediately’. I told him that he is not interested in me, he replied that he does not care and that he just wants to leave because of the war. This was extremely strange and I said it was unacceptable, of course.
Here he has a $1.5 million contract and Red Star offered him 2.1 or 2.2 million, something like that. We got this information from various sources, we know that. I heard the statement from the sporting director of Red Star that they are not interested in Motley. I think he said it clearly to cover himself legally. If not, if they really take a step back and make that decision… If they start respecting me, then we can be friends again.
A lot of clubs would like Motley because he is a great player, but the time for that was in June when we got him. Then agreements are made and then they must be kept. No one can act apart from them. This is clear, obvious. Everyone wants to focus on Israeli groups because of the war. Does this mean we can go get players from the Russian teams because they are also at war?
No, I didn’t make suggestions to Red Star players. But I said that if they take our player, then I will also send counter-offers to all their stars. That doesn’t mean they will want to come and play for Hapoel, but I will take them and then let them go wherever they want. Maybe I’ll give them to Partizan for free.
I don’t want Red Star to pay, but I want them to respect me, respect the sport, I want games to be won on the field. The fact is they did something illegal. Again good that they took a step back. Honestly, I’m not the guy to mess with. It’s that simple.
I am a businessman. I built my business from scratch with my own two hands – you can’t do that without knowing how to run a business. Of course we still want Motley, he’s our player – he’s a boy, he’s confused, I don’t mind. He will stay and play for us, we pay him quite well.”
Source: Sport Fm
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