Kougias: “AEL’s only goal is to avoid bankruptcy, some expensive contracts will be terminated”

PAE AEL owner Alexis Kougias stated in a personal statement on Crimson’s official website that the team’s only goal is to avoid bankruptcy as they are far behind the Super League 2 Veria group one champion , and emphasized that the development on the financial part went badly for the team, since her goal now is to avoid the minimal chance of bankruptcy.

Details of what Alexis Kougias said: “As is known, after a very poor performance by almost all of our highest paid and experienced footballers, with few exceptions, our team suffered its second defeat in the league, the other one was from Olympiakos, which resulted in Veria finishing 9th^the non-existent penalty this season to pull away 8 points and currently the stubborn favorite for 1st place^ης Position of our group in this tragic Super League 2 championship as Super League 2 management and EPO made it with their decisions.

For our team, this development has very bad effects, both financially and competitively, since without income we received only €40,000 from the TV contract and unfortunately, for various reasons, little money from the institutions – clubs that also owe us from transfers or from Sponsorships, with the consequence that there is a total inability to fulfill our commitments, created in the past exclusively by footballers who came and offered little, mainly during the Gregorian era, and who today refuse agreements in anticipation of my personal financial independence . sufficient, which however is impossible to cover these immediate obligations due to the risk of serious financial problems for me as all my personal payments to the PAE fund are taxed as personal income at a rate of 44%.

From today the only goal is to avoid the minimum risk of insolvency of the team, with immediate priority to cover tax and insurance obligations to always have insurance and tax information that we need in transfers.

It goes without saying that some of the team’s most expensive contracts are being terminated with players who, for various reasons, have not offered games due to their inflated salaries.

To date almost all players have been paid with some reasonable delays present in all teams even in Super League 1.

The contracts are always terminated at the insistence of our team’s coach, Mr. Panagiotis Goutsidis, who will probably stay with us for several more years.

The goal is, at the end of the season, with 7 games left, to have maintained the first place up to the last moment and at the same time to have included Miltiadis, Nino, Tsoumanis Zisoulis, Kotsianoulis, Tsela, Daktilas, Zacharakis in the base team of first team and Misyrlis and that Angeloulis, Vlioras, Koukos, Antonopoulos also took the time to participate, so with the addition of minimal, measured transfers in the fingers of one hand, quality transfers of mainly Greek players, our team can be reliable and competitive in every category and play whether it’s Super League 1 or Super League 2“.