Two in one. “This was the very proposal that cannot be abandoned”-someday, Gus Hiddink will probably call his decision to lead Chelsea that way. In the meantime, the Dutchman only assures that on the quality of his work with the Russian team, a business trip for three and a half months in London will not affect
When Chelsea invited Louis Felipe Skorari last summer, doubts about the effectiveness of this step were expressed by quite a lot. Yes, Skolary managed to become the world champion with the Brazilian national team and vice -champion of Europe in the new century - from Portuguese, but at the club level he did not work too successfully, and even then only in South America. The English Premier League has long been recognized by everyone by the strongest championship of the Old World, and in it the ambitions of Chelsea since the purchase of the club Roman Abramovich do not fall below the first place. Yes, and not only in him: the predecessor of Skorari Abraham Grant was fired for the loss of the Champions League final "Manchester" in the penalty shootout.
Therefore, Skolary was doomed to win, and, according to the idea of his hired, it was also beautiful, as with the same Brazilians, that is, to make Chelsea a completely impeccable champion. But instead, the coach for eight months of work finished up to the 4th place along the championship-so low, even at the intermediate finish, Chelsea Abramovich had never dropped. And in the pause provided for the matches of the national teams, the club owner decided to surgery.
The first candidate for replacing the Brazilian was quickly calculated: it was not for nothing that on the very day of the dismissal of Skolary, the English bookmakers began to accept bets on the vacant position of Gus Hiddin in a ratio of 6: 4. It is no doubt that it is necessary to pay tribute to their insight: hardly in England they knew in detail the situation with the delays in the salary of Hiddinka by the Russian Football Union. After concluding in the summer of 2008, the new contract with the Dutchman Roman Abramovich ceased to be a personal guarantor of timely payments, Hiddink became a full-time employee of the RFU and therefore automatically fell under all the charms of the crisis along with the rest of his colleagues. After gathering in Turkey, which ended on February 11, Hiddink was going to come to Moscow for discussion, including financial issues. And then Skolary is suddenly fired, an instant invitation from Abramovich should be accepted “Chelsea”, albeit for a short while, but with the instant solution of all material problems!
Of course, having arrived instead of Moscow to London, Hiddink will comply with the necessary polites: “It's now about mutual assistance to each other. The RFU has a difficult financial situation, the football union needs help. But emergency assistance is necessary for Chelsea, and here the RFU can take oncoming steps. As you can see, mutual interest arose, and I do not need to hide it. ”
In general, not for long Gus Hiddink did without a personal employer. For several months he had enough to understand that it was seriously about money in Russia to agree only with Roman Abramovich. And as for the combination of posts, he did PSV Aidhoven the champion of Holland, simultaneously withdrawing the Australian national team to the final stage of the World Cup! Today, Hiddinka has exactly the same task.
Part -time. Perhaps officials of the Russian Football Union would have objected against the simultaneous work of Hiddink in the national team and Chelsea if the financial levers were completely in their hands. In fact, the RFU - the debtor in front of the coach
Sergey Kapkov - Igor Pervukhin
According to the first version of the contract, before Euro 2008, the salary of Hiddinka through the RFU paid the Football National Academy Fund by Roman Abramovich. The head of it Sergey Kapkov clarifies the situation that arose after the renewal of the agreement.
How much did Hiddink agree to to continue working in Russia until 2010?
Under the agreement, the HUS now receives € 7 million a year clean.
What is the share of your fund here?
After the European Championship, the head of the RFU Vitaliy Mutko asked us to transfer $ 5 million on account of the Hiddinka contract. We did this primarily in order to reassure the husser in the conditions of the impending financial crisis. But now the RFU is still a pretty budget deficit.
Did your money come to your intended purpose?
Our organization with the RFU signed an agreement under which our money, except for Hiddinka’s personal account, cannot “fall”. And, say, the salary of Hus assistants is paid from the RFU accounts: Mutko insists that it was his organization to be considered an employer for the entire coaching staff of the Russian national team.
They say that just the successful performance of the national team at the European Championship, which entailed the enormous payments of unplanned premium, and led to the current acute lack of funds in addition to the crisis?
I only know that in addition to us the RFU, some Russian businessmen helped with money. So, $ 1 million was paid by Leonid Fedun, another million - Suleiman Kerimov, Mikhail Prokhorov transferred 35 million rubles ...
It turns out that now untimely payments to Hiddinka from the RFU will be covered by the money of Roman Abramovich in the form of a salary at Chelsea?
GUS will now just receive a salary in two places. In the RFU-until the summer of 2010, and in Chelsea-until the end of May 2009. It was for such a period that the RFU agreed to combine.
