Shakhtar CEO Sergei Palkin summed up the results for the "miners".

Shakhtar CEO Sergey Palkin commented on the results of the team in the first half of the season, the result of the Champions League draw and the recent transfer rumors related to the Donetsk team.

- In the Champions League, we withdrew from the group with rivals who preach the world's leading attacking football - Manchester City and Napoli. Now we have a meeting with Roma. In this direction the result is excellent. In the Premier League, we are today in the first place. However, the championship is long, of course, there is still a lot of emotional games. While we are going in the right direction and everything is going well with us.

- Players on vacation, but for management the winter period is always full. Share your plans for the off-season.

- If we talk about plans, most questions are usually asked about transfers. You already know that we signed the right-wing defender of the Dodo in order to create a competition Butko. Then everything depends on who will leave, then we will do some acquisitions. For many of our players there is a certain interest of European clubs, so today it is difficult to say how the situation will develop. Every day everything changes, calling specific names is very difficult.

- An exit to the playoffs of the Champions League can attract to Shakhtar the attention of the good players you want to buy?.

- First, we have a well-coordinated team with serious competition in each position. We left the group, and the grants of European football drew attention to us. Naturally, there are certain contacts and concrete interest, but I can not say how this will end, since I do not want to mention names.

"How do you like Roma?".

- If we left the group with Napoli, who is one of the leaders of the Italian championship, then with Roma should play and win. Today I estimate the chances of 50 to 50. However, in football there are no trifles: all the details need to be taken into account to pass on. The Romans are qualitatively staffed, they have excellent players: Nainggolan, Jacko, Alison's goalkeeper ... A strong team, but I think that of all the options is more or less acceptable. The main thing is to prepare very seriously.

- Is there a list of names or positions that I would like to strengthen this winter?.

- We strengthened what we wanted. You saw, the reaction was immediate. In the rest everything will depend on the situation.

- Is it possible to extend the contract with Bernard?.

- There is a lot of talk about his future: whether he will stay, or whether he will buy it. Now there is a discussion. Let's see what happens in the transfer market.

- Interest from Turkish clubs?.

- Of course, there is also.

- Fred spent a great season ... - There are many football players interested - let's not go by their names. When something concrete happens, then we will see and discuss our further strategy for this position.

- At what stage is the situation with Dario Srna?.

- We are waiting for a response from the Ukrainian Anti-Doping Committee, how long does the disqualification. They took samples A and B, now everyone is analyzing and must make a verdict. If WADA arranges this decision, it will be final. If, say, WADA considers it to be wrong, they will go to court, where it will be necessary to prove whether or not it is true.

- Returning to a scandalous duel with Zarei: a stormy discussion triggered your phrase about an uppercut. After a while, do you regret what was said?.

- You see, by and large I'm not an emotional person. My emotions appear when I see injustice. And it was obvious: we judge just stole three points. All the experts who favor Shakhtar and do not favor, said that before the 80th minute we had to win the match! The judge just broke it and took away three points. That's all. I will not comment further, because again there will be emotions.

- Are you going to challenge the actions of the arbitrator?.

- But as? If he whistled, there is nothing to dispute.

- Experts said that in question only the removal of Fred.

- It entailed everything else. What was the problem of this arbitrator? He lost the threads of the game control. Before that, I watched the first half of Manchester United - Manchester City. And if there was a judge giving, like this Boyko, the hosts and guests would not have had half a team. There were also fouls, hands in the penalty and so on! But the arbiter understands how to manage the game. Stop the match, go to the coach or players, talk and take away the heat of emotions ... He could easily control the game, and this situation would not have arisen. All that's happened is just because of him, you know?.

- Video replay, which the president of FFU spoke about, can resolve the situation with refereeing?.

- They will help to make a certain step. At least we'll understand if there was a penalty or not, because there's a lot of talk around them. That is, critical things, of course, will be solved. The referee can not always use video replay - the game will last not 90 minutes, but 180 minutes. However, this will become a big help. On the other hand, our arbitrators need to study and learn.

- The miner probably causes interest of the organizers of the off-season tournaments. Where do you plan to play at the training camp?.

- At this stage - UAE. Further it will be visible: Turkey, Emirates ... - With rivals have already been defined?.

- In the near future, information should appear on the official website. Now there are final talks on sparring partners.

- There are a lot of Shakhtar players on loan. Did Paulo Fonsec voice the wish to return someone?.

- Again, it all depends on the reaction of the transfer market on our players. I think we will return one or two more.

- The press reported on the interest in Denis Boyko ... - First time I hear.