The confrontation between the amateur and the PAE for the New Tubacontinues in PAOKwith the communications manager of the football team, George Kouventidis commenting on the event in an interview with ERT.
George Kouventidis argued that AS PAOK does not want to build the new Toumpa by Ivan Savvidis, referring to a “aggressive” press conference of the Amateur’s administration to the owner of the “black and white” PAE. At the same time, PAOK’s communications manager also referred to the team’s transfer, with Yakoumakis and Zafiris in the spotlight.
Kouventides’ statements
For PAOK’s press conference: “It was certainly not what one would expect to hear. A first comment I could make from the two -hour press conference yesterday. I think everyone made the impression that the PAOK Amateur administration does not seem to want to build the new Toumpa, PAE and Ivan Savvidis. An “offensive” press conference to PAE and Ivan Savvides. I can’t understand the reason to be honest. They must themselves explain why this “aggression” exists. I heard people comments say that the administration of the PAOK Amateur was talking as if to represent a businessman. They are comments that we certainly cannot adopt. It’s just this feeling that has prevailed and yesterday after what we heard in this about two hours. “
Whether the new Toumpa ends in a “deadlock” with PAOK’s attitude: “As long as PAOK holds this attitude, one can say that. On the other hand, the clear will of PAOK and Ivan Savvides himself is expressed that the major shareholder and president of PAOK is the one who will build the new Toumpa. From this statement, Mr. Ivan Savvidis does not deviate. I reiterate that with the tactic that is currently following the PAOK Amateur Administration, it makes everyone believe that Ivan Savvidis does not want to build the new Tuba. And I really wonder about what we heard yesterday, for a short time by the president of the Amateur, with 68 votes elected, but he is not the president of the Amateur, Mr. Isaiadis. Although he did not speak much, because they monopolized the discussion, the Lord who sat on his right, an amateur communication adviser, we did not know him as a part of PAOK society, now we know him, he has made analyzes for geopolitics and made predictions about how the world would be. From what we hear in general, we probably hear the leadership of the amateur. I am really wondering if the 15 members of the Board of Directors of the Amateur, embrace the positions expressed by the leadership of the PM. By the president and the rest of the gentlemen. “
For the threatening email mentioned by Mr. Isaiadis: “If it contains threats, this can be understood by a common mind, because Mr. Isaiadis at some point was shaking a piece of paper and leaving implicit threats, that he did not even want to tell them not to throw oil on the fire. We do not have a question of publicizing this email and now if in this email we have heard, you read, there are average threats, I really want to see what they are. In this… show the two -hour play at the PAOK Sports Arena in the Press Hall, we heard a lot. And that for the mail is one. We also heard many that belong to the category of lies. So we heard a lot of lies yesterday. We heard from Mrs Giannakopoulou that there is no timetable and the amateur is threatened. If everyone reads carefully the Memorandum of Understanding that PAOK PAE has delivered to the Amateur administration will see that everything is foreseen there.
This Memorandum is essentially coding the construction of the new Tuba from the point where it is today until the new stadium is completed. And because we heard yesterday that there is no timetable, if one read, carefully, and Mrs Giannakopoulou, the memorandum we have proposed as a PAE to Amateur, will see that in paragraph 2.2 clearly states that the 12 -month period begins with the time. So the amateur will ring the bell to start the 12 -month race. To come out building permission and then the guarantees from the PAE side will be given properly. Everything is foreseen in the Memorandum, which is why at the controversial meeting of the Amateur Council, which was also present and the PAE, no objection to the serious pieces of the Memorandum was expressed.
There was no objection because the memorandum codes the construction of the new Tuba. The gentlemen and Mrs Giannakopoulou tried to talk about the feeling of PAOK friends. We heard about New Philadelphia. These are far from reality, because I repeat, the memorandum we have prepared and delivered is a product of a very serious work by the PAE, excludes any such possibility. The building permit comes out in 12 months, after the maturation of the studies. Guarantees are given and before a brick from today’s Tuba, all guarantees will have been given, on the basis of which the new stadium will be constructed. Building license and guarantees, the stadium ready in three years, this is data. There are no new philanthropies, there are no granites. There are no catastrophes and there are no such fantasies and ghosts. “
For the transcripts of Yakoumakis and Zafiris: “As far as Yakoumakis is concerned, as you rightly you said, he will reach a flight from Germany this night. There is, of course, agreement with both the Mexican team. Yakoumakis will come to Thessaloniki, the process we need and we hope that everything will go well and will soon be a formal PAOK footballer. As far as Zafiris is concerned, it is a fact that PAOK PAE has submitted a big one, I can say, a proposal to Slavia Prague. The case is open. We believe that the chances of having a happy ending are many, but before we have a definitive end in every transcriptional case, no one can predict anything. It is going well, but we are still quite far from talking about a deal and a closed deal. It is a case that PAOK is clearly chasing, Zafiris is clearly interested in us as an excellent Greek international footballer. This case is in a process that is evolving and I think we will have some news in the coming days. I can’t predict, I repeat if we will have agreements. This is a given. We hope things will go well. “