Headed the RPL since 2007.
• Last week, insider Sergei Egorov reported: RPL head Sergei Pryadkin on the verge of resignation, one of the club representatives will temporarily take his place (candidates: Rustem Saimanov from Rubin, Pavel Pivovarov from Dynamo, Roman Babaev or Shamil Gazizov), and then power will be transferred to Ashot Khachaturyants, who impressed the clubs as a boss
• On Monday, RBC journalist Hrant Getadaryan confirmed this information and added details: Pryadkin will announce his resignation on Tuesday. And so it happened.
🆕 According to Sport24, Rustem Saimanov (Rubin), Shamil Gazizov (Ufa), Pavel Pivovarov (Dynamo) and Roman Babaev (CSKA) refused to become acting. Head of the RPL.
22 of October.
Why now and whose idea is this?
According to Sergei Egorov, for resignation most of the RPL clubs performed (12 out of 16), which cooled sharply to Pryadkin. Back in early 2020, the boss was unanimously re-elected for five years. Moreover, at first, with a violation of the procedure (without a reporting and election conference) and, as it were, between times (they simply voted at the end of one of the meetings). The RFU demanded that the elections be held as expected, but this did not change anything. Pryadkin was an uncontested candidate.
And a few months later a pandemic began and the first difficulties in relations . The clubs did not like that the RPL was timidly communicating with Rospotrebnadzor, did not work out a clear covenant regulation and generally withdrew itself. Most actively sarcastically “Rostov” .
“Wow! It turns out that we have an RPL president who cares about the image of Tinkoff of the Russian Premier League, ”former Rostov coach Valery Karpin wrote on Instagram when Pryadkin accused him of causing damage to the RPL’s reputation (due to comments about the league’s inaction).
True, since the summer of 2020, public criticism of Pryadkin has subsided, but, according to Sergei Egorov, the irritation of the clubs has not gone anywhere.
As reported by Sport24, the clubs were ready to put forward a vote of no confidence in the president of the league on October 5, but a more peaceful scenario with a voluntary resignation worked.
🆕 … This is not news to him, rumors have been circulating for a long time. But he still held out, he was recently reelected for a new term. Everything seemed to be stabilized. As a result, 12 out of 16 clubs were in favor of changing Pryadkin. In this situation, it is better to resign from oneself voluntarily than to be dismissed for mistrust of the clubs, “commented Vyacheslav Koloskov, Honorary President of the RFU.
spoke Pryadkin himself?
He has not spoken on the topic of resignation since August 2020, the most difficult time in his career: “Someone starts rumors, but so far I’m working … If the clubs count, they will make a different decision. I am a grated roll, but there are no irreplaceable ones. ”
This summer and early autumn, Pryadkin talked about current affairs and the future, at the beginning of September gave the most excited interview in his life , and in the middle of the month calmly talked about selling media rights.
According to the Championship, when rumors of a vote of no confidence appeared, Pryadkin asked Gazprom head Alexei Miller to meet in order to enlist his support and purchase armor against any weapon.
It is not known how the meeting ended and whether it was.
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