General Director of the Donetsk club spoke about Shakhtar’s transfer philosophy, work on the Brazilian market and how the war changed the team’s approaches to the development of football players.

Shakhtar General Director Sergei Palkin spoke about the peculiarities of the transfer work for the club in the minds of a full-scale war.

In other words, the Brazilian is directly deprived of an important part of the Donetsk team’s strategy, but getting promising players to Ukraine has become much easier. .

" Before that, it was much easier, because when the tourists arrived, the stinks would smell of our beautiful stadium, one of the largest in Europe at that time, and our training base as well. In terms of profitability, such as club infrastructure, we have a small, richly strong position until 2014. And after we were deprived of our place after 2014, and after 2022, you know, it became richer, much more important to get talent from Brazil,” Goal quotes Palkin as saying..

In addition, the functionary speaks about the everyday difficulties that Shakhtar’s foreign football faces. Some of the Gravians live in hotels, and their homelands are lost behind the cordon, for fear of coming to Ukraine.

" These people live at the hotel, and there is no apartment in them, because their homelands live outside the cordon. Their homelands are sometimes afraid of coming to Ukraine. This is how life works when you simply live at the hotel, cross the road opposite the hotel, where there is a field in our area, walk, train and return to the hotel? I'm in awe, but it's not like a normal life. Sometimes our citizens did not visit their homelands for two months, three months."

At the same time, Palkin says that the war did not become a reason for Shakhtar to slow down his developments. However, the club will adapt, speed up the praised decision and implement scouting work in Brazil:.

" Vaughn encourages us to adapt, encourages us to praise the Swedish solution and analyze it deeply.

For example, we have increased the number of our scouts in Brazil and are trying to complete a comprehensive analysis before purchasing Brazilians. Therefore, we are developing, and we understand that this will directly bring us not only sporting results, but also financial results."

Palkin also recalled that, through the Shakhtar war, he changed approaches to the adaptation of newcomers. Whereas previously Brazilian football players could spend up to two years on recruiting new minds, now the club is aware of their readiness to play almost immediately.

" Through the wars we also changed our approaches to the development of civilizations. Bo, for example, until 2014, until 2022, the Brazilians who came to our club had little time to adapt. Ale now we don’t have such an hour. We buy gravel - and we play immediately. “We’re running out of time to adapt to, I don’t know, zero,” says Palkin.

The general director of Shakhtar news and a specific example from the transfer market - negotiations between Gabriel Mek and Gremio. The Ukrainian club worked on the transfer of the footballer for at least three months, but ended up losing to Porto:.

" The war has been resolved at Porto, because for the sake of new minds, the graves give precedence to the country, where there is no war, and we understand it."

At the same time, Shakhtar is adapting not only the transfer process, but also the model for holding home matches. After Poland and Germany, the club plans to move to England, as Palkin respects the extremely important football market.

" Now we praise the decision to move to England, because the price is a new market.

Honestly speaking, this is the capital of world football from the view of profitability - from the communication view, sports view, financial view. You asked how war is pouring into our business model. This is what it's all about.

We are trying to present ourselves in places and countries where there are a lot of Ukrainians, because we want our matches to stink. On the other hand, from a financial point of view, we are trying to find places that can bring us more income and maximize ticket sales. We are forced to adapt to the new reality of our life,” said Sergey Palkin.