Kougias v. AEL player: “You are completely indifferent while the city’s bars are full”

AEL got stuck with Pierikos at 0-0 and Alexis Kougias broke out against the team’s players. In a statement, he stressed that he was solely responsible for the image of the team at the Thessalian level and pointed out that he had kept players with very expensive contracts who only care about their money.

In fact, he characteristically emphasized that ““Even with these poor results, all they care about is that we don’t delay paying their salaries for a day and that they don’t sweat their shirts while the bars in town are full.”.

In particular, he mentioned: “1. As various people are spreading false news about AEL’s players and coaches, I would like to reiterate that Mr. Takis Parafestas is fully responsible for the running of the football department.

As in the case of Fratzescu, Kotsiou, who resigned and left, I’m not going to fire anyone or terminate a player’s contract now.

Today a squad with a budget of € 2,570,000 competed with a squad with a budget, as revealed to me by the mayor of Katerini, Mr Costas Koukodimos, which costs € 650,000 regardless of the stadium.

2. Congratulations to the young monsters for their impeccable behavior and their help to the team at the Katerini stadium.

Door 1 is opened for those who do not have a seat so that there is no risk of punishment, with free entry, but in compliance with the health protocol.

At the end of the year and before the first game of the new year, I will publish my decisions for the future of AEL.

What I would like to emphasize is that only I and no one else is responsible for this bad image of AEL with the highly paid players of 60,000, 70,000, 80,000, 90,000, 100,000 and 120,000 €.

I chose the coaches and I agreed to keep players with very expensive contracts who offer nothing and are completely indifferent, but also attracting other Greeks and foreigners who are only interested in it even with these poor results is not a day hesitating to pay their salaries and don’t sweat your shirt filling the city bars “.