Shalimov demanded to reform the RPL after he fell asleep watching the game “Ural”

Former Ural head coach Igor Shalimov said on MATCH PREMIER that the current game of the Yekaterinburg team puts him to sleep.

– If there are no players in Ural, as in Zenit, how can you make sure that he plays spectacularly?

“He played spectacularly. Now I don’t even watch Ural. Although I to him [отношусь] with soul. But I understand it’s boring. We need to do some reform, change something. Because if I’m bored watching Ural, then it’s really one hundred percent boring. If you do not take the fans of “Ural”. There is a result. I’m talking about boring or not. For me to fall asleep watching the Ural game… well, that’s impossible… it’s really boring.

I won’t say swamp, but we need to stir it up somehow. Because now the gap is like this: ten and six-eight below. He becomes huge. Really not interested. 8:0, 5:1. Well, where? This was not the case last year. Zenit arrived, and we played 0-0. It is not interesting to watch, but none of the Ural fans or neutral people fell asleep.

We need to change something in our championship, we need to think. But 18 or 20 teams are definitely not needed,” Shalimov said.

Shalimov was fired from Ural after four rounds of the WORLD RPL of the 2022/23 season, in which the team never won.