Former owner of FC Metalist Yaroslavsky has no plans to return the club.

FC MetalistKharkiv businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, who owned FC Metalist for several years, announced that he has no plans to buy the football club due to its heavy debts. He made this statement to Ukrainian journalists at the "Ukrainian Breakfast" held at the Davos Business Forum.

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When asked by journalists whether he planned to buy the club back from Kurchenko, Yaroslavsky firmly replied that he had no intention of managing the club, as it was mired in multi-million dollar debt.

Alexander Yaroslavsky

Alexander Yaroslavsky

Earlier, media reports indicated that the Kharkiv businessman stated he would like to return to managing a football team. Furthermore, there were reports that Yaroslavsky was in talks with Kolomoisky about acquiring FC Dnipro.

As a reminder, businessman and philanthropist Yaroslavsky sold FC Metalist to oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko several years ago. After the young oligarch fled Ukraine, the Kharkiv football club lost funding and found itself in a "deep debt hole."

 

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