Summary: Hapoel Tel Aviv - Section Nes Ziona 0:2 (Sport1)
Hapoel Tel Aviv will be transferred to the ownership of the Mintzberg Group in June, but until then it is necessary to take care of all the club's needs: the payment of salaries for the months of April and May along with the regular operation of the club (suppliers, equipment and other current expenses), when the problem is clear - at this stage the money for this does not exist at the club box office.
Regarding the salaries, in fact the club today is stuck between the current group of owners led by the Nisanov brothers, who do not intend to transfer additional funds, and the Americans who expect that the money will indeed come from the current owners or that things will be done by confiscating guarantees from the budget control.
As of today, the chance that the budget control will intervene in the matter is zero.
First, the club has not yet reached the point where it has not paid salaries.
Secondly, as soon as the control knows that in June the team will be transferred to new ownership, they are calm and treat the deficit or the issue of salaries as an issue that needs to be resolved between the outgoing and incoming owners, when in any case the Americans will not be able to pass a budget in control in the summer without reaching a final account regarding all the salaries of the players and the professional staff for the current season.
Or as they said yesterday in the association: "Whoever takes over Hapoel Tel Aviv for the next season will be responsible for what was not paid this season, unequivocally. The control should not really interfere, there will be money in the system and everything will be paid. There are owners who leave and some who come in, someone will take care of salaries, too If a little late."
For them, their investment is over.
Nisanov (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
The control clarifies: responsibility for them.
Mintzberg (Photo: Danny Maron)
In fact, the association explains that at the end of the day, even if the salaries are slightly delayed, the Americans' only option will be to pay them.
If and when they do so, it will be from the 2 million dollars they deposited in trust, when in addition to the deficit created, there will be almost nothing left of this amount that could help the club next season in order to increase the player's wages and the professional and managerial upgrade they wanted to carry out.
Also out of the 5 million shekels that are supposed to come in next season from the sale of players, over 3 million shekels of the amount will be returned as an owner loan, after the current owners transferred the amount during the current season for ongoing operations, in an agreement that assures them that the money that will come in next season from Standard Liège and Olympiacos for Usher David and Doron Leidner will be returned to them.
In the current situation, the CEO Liran Mokhtar, who made eights in the air to pay the March salaries, remains alone in the battle. Employees, players, suppliers and service providers are sniffing if they will receive a salary or payment at the beginning of next month, when it seems that the rabbits in the hat have run out and it will not be possible to find solutions Or magic in the order of NIS 2 million every month.
Need to "collect alms"?
Crowned (Photo: Barney Ardov)
Even so, the owners arouse a lot of suspicion.
Hapoel fans are waiting for a response (Photo: Danny Maron)
Beyond everything, this atmosphere is the biggest damage that can come in preparation for the arrival of the Americans in June.
If until now there has been a positive vibe from the new owners, the fact that a second before their arrival they are talking about the possibility of non-payment of salaries, a lower budget next season and flow difficulties, do not add points and damage the image of the entire big plan of the Americans for the club.
As things stand today, the Americans are expected to sue the current owners for the resulting deficit, but they must separate the lawsuit from the obligation to take responsibility for the club from now on.
Behind the scenes they have been in contact with the club since January, working on marketing and professional plans, David Mintzberg has already held a press conference, Nick Hammond is talking to coaches, there are lists of players - but all this is going on at the same time that there are no funds in the coffers to pay salaries and the club is looking to "collect alms" .
An immediate solution is required here, every day that the Tel Aviv worker in this situation damages the new way that the Americans want to bring to the club, and also the trust of the crowd, who are already suspicious of the new ownership.
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