According to Zaza Adeishvili, president of F.C. "Samtredia", only financial problem made them talk about it.
On Wednesday, Adeishvili met representatives of Samtredia Municipality and Imereti Regional Administration. He talked about it to "World Sport".
Zaza Adeishvili: "We met governor of Samtredia Koba Kandelaki and vice-governor of Imereti Giorgi Abesalashvili. We talked about our problems. Our main problem is lack of money. I cannot say that we fould ways how to solve this problem. They promised us that we would do their best to improve our situation but we did not receive guarantees. For example, they did not tell us that they would give us one month salary.
- How many debts does the club have?
- We have 102500 GEL debts. 79000 GEL is salary debts. Other expenses are for transport, business trip, ensuring training process, medical service and etc.
- It is said, that because of the situation in the club, "Samtredia" might not play against "Olimpi" Rustavi in the next round of the national championship.
- When you do not behave fairly toward player, you cannot demand him to play. Besides that, we are not that team which promises players 20 000 USD salary. These players do not have other incomes and want to receive their 400, 500 or 600 GEL. They are agree if someone pays half of their salary. We do not want to put out the national championship, poverty is our main problem.
- Perhaps, you are going to make some other steps.
- We are going to meet fans and local employers to collect so-called public donation. We have to overcome this stage. We were promised that situation would change since January and Football Federation as well as the country will help us. If someone will show up who wants to buy the club, "Samtredia" is one of the desired variants because this city has football tradition and the stadium is always crowded.



Lasha Tabagari