Betar Jerusalem left-back Max Grechkin, who the club decided to exercise the option on about two weeks ago, announced that he wants to leave the team immediately.
"After a difficult survival season with events and hallucinations that are enough to tell, we all had hope that things will stabilize and the good period with Yossi Aboksis will continue this season and bring Betar Jerusalem back to the top of Israeli football.
But while we thought, cut back and did, there were those who took care of themselves and let the business continue to deteriorate and bring Betar to the brink of liquidation.
From the day you are a professional player you are told that your contract is entrusted with budget control and is guaranteed.
Amazing how much we discovered this year that control is the last body that we as players can trust.
Not only did they demand a 25% cut for us, they fought against us in court that we will not get it next season either, the court decided otherwise but if the team is disbanded it is already clear to all of us that no one will see a penny.
By the way, why do I even have to cut back because of control failures?
Whoever is responsible should bear the damage.
What's more, Betar Jerusalem has been in this economic situation since the beginning of last season, it is shattered. Betar Jerusalem, a mission that ended successfully.
Two weeks ago, Betar exercised the option on me and informed me that I was continuing next season. For me in Israel, Betar is always a first priority.
This club and this audience gave me a home, pushed me, supported me and after what we went through last year we expected to start and reap the fruits of the year, there is nothing more fun than rejoicing and having fun with Betar Jerusalem, those who have not experienced it will not understand.
This week I broke down.
Seeing that players like Itamar Nitzan and Uriel Degani are being released, not on a professional basis but as vegetables on the market, what will cost us the most, I realized that right now even if Betar stands on its feet I will be in a team based on youth players, every game will be defeated and the league will be a joke.
I turned to lawyer Yitzhak Junger who would release me (I have had proposals from Israel and abroad for more than a month) and I was told that I would not be released, that they would try to transfer a modest group in control and at the same time wait for developments. Could it be that the body that is supposed to protect the players, the professionals and especially to serve the fans is standing aside and letting this happen?
Max Grechkin.
"Control is the last body we as actors can trust," Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
But this is how officials prefer to take care of themselves, Betar Jerusalem is important to so many people, fans bleed and do not sleep at night, cry, do not understand what is happening to their team, they are not guilty and do not deserve the team to disband or go down, who is to blame Why should such a large club start in minus 12, nationally or even in the first division because of the failures of others? It's a shame that someone has to pay attention to it and pay the price.
Before I wrote the post I was told that everyone would think it was done to explain my departure soon, so I come here and say, that as long as this is the situation I want to worry about my future and career and not ashamed to say I would be happy to leave my contract, I made almost no money in my career That I know that in the dissolution of my contract will be canceled and I will be stuck without a team or exchanges I will stay in a youth team that will snatch defeats every week and humiliate the club and us, I want to go.
And it's not just me, it's almost everyone who signed, it's a terrible feeling in this situation, fans I meet on the street tell me to do it, to run away, but I always tell them that even though a player has to take care of himself, Betar is something different for me and I every day Get up and hope there will be a solution that will leave us the team and me in the club, but feel that whoever needs to take care of us has abandoned us and whoever is in charge of our salaries is taking care of his house.
What will?
I do not know, I unloaded everything I had in my stomach for a long time, maybe I will also be punished for it but I will deal with it.
Max Grechkin's career is a small pips, the future of Betar Jerusalem and the injustice done today to employees, players and especially to fans who do not sleep at night, it is something that needs to be discussed in government, it is a failure that must be stopped and someone will have to prosecute.
And something else, this post is not only for this case that is related to Betar Jerusalem but for all Israeli football, today it's us tomorrow it's others, save football from these failures. "
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