Masalitin on Chalov’s transfer to PAOK: “A transfer with a double bottom”

The transfer of CSKA forward Fedor Chalov to PAOK is a move with a double bottom, since the Greek championship is weaker than the Russian one, according to former Army forward Valery Masalitin.

Earlier on Thursday, 26-year-old CSKA alumnus Chalov said goodbye to the Moscow club on a Telegram channel. As PAOK vice-president Kariakos Kariakos told Match TV, the player is already in Greece.

— I would say that this is a transfer with a double bottom: on the one hand, the club promised to let him go to the European championship and kept their word, but PAOK turned up. It is clear that the team plays in European cups, but the Greek championship is weaker than ours. Therefore, the definition of a “transfer with a double bottom” comes to mind. There are three or four teams of a good level, and the rest are a walk-through. To show him in European cups and sell him at a higher price is an option, of course.

Again, the club fulfilled its promise. It is clear that it lost money somewhere. In addition, the striker left, who now, at a difficult time, could help the team. But it is wrong to keep a player who wants to leave and who has no motivation. Perhaps, the position of agents may also play a role here. Well, now everything is in Chalov’s hands and feet. How he plays there will depend only on him, – Match TV quotes Masalitin as saying.

Chalov played 263 matches for CSKA in all tournaments and scored 89 goals. The forward won the Russian Cup and the Russian Super Cup with the Moscow club.