Russian soccer in the zone of turbulence

Ranking the budgets of football clubs in the championship-2010 Club Budget 2011, $ million investors Cover 2010 Budget Club owner in 2010, $ 165 million a Zenith Gazprom, Sibur Gazprom, Sibur, Gazprombank Rubin 99 3 120 TAIF , the government of Tatarstan Tatenergo 55 5 90 Lokomotiv Railways, Transcontainer, TransCreditBank, Freight Railways 62 4 85 Spartacus Lukoil, Lukoil Capital personally Leonid Fedun 65 7 80 Dynamo VTB Metalloinvest, CC Svyazinvest "Dynamo" 70 64.7 2 CSKA Moscow Aeroflot, Bashneft The real owner is unknown, minority shareholder Eugene Giner 64.3 11 Anji 60 The structures of Suleiman Kerimov Suleiman Kerimov 15-20 12 50 Closed-Terek bank Sovamerikantreyd Government of the Chechen Republic 40 37 0 Krasnodar Structures Sergei Galitsky, Sergei Galitsky 13 0 35 Kuban Russian mining and metal company Oleg Mkrtchyan (ISD) 12 0 32 Volga IDC Center and Volga Nizhny Novgorod Region Government August 13 Tom 28 Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, the band "Alliance", Sibur, Transneft, RAO UES, IDC Holding the government of Tomsk region 28 September 14 Rostov Agricultural Group of Companies "Yug Russia ", Bashneft-South Rostselmash controlling stake in Aston Administration of Rostov region 15 13 28 Wings of the Soviets Technologies, AvtoVAZ, Russpetsstal" Sekanata Ltd.. "(Cyprus); predpolzhitelno - Igor Zavialov 16 14 21 Amkar Administration of Perm Region," Mineral Fertilizers "" Mineral Fertilizers "June 17 Spartak Nalchik 15 Administration of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Inter-Regional clearing bank government of Kabardino-Balkaria 18 Source: sports.ru, proper. Info-I "F." At the entrance to the football stadium in Grozny hangs a poster with a portrait of the A-hmata Kadyrov with the caption: "He has gone undefeated." In the background sports officials like to shoot a new coach, "Terek" Ruud Gullit, who was recently hired a "boss" of Chechnya P amzan Kadyrov. In a recent match against the Chechen soccer team masters veterans of Brazil, which, according to Ramzan Kadyrov, has come to play not for money but out of respect for the Chechen people, Kadyrov scored two penalties - you have to add about ten minutes beyond the regulations to put the ball on the third time the point. Kadyrov is coming to the ball, the goalkeeper Brazilians shows where the beat beats Kadyrov, the goalkeeper drops the other side. The audience in the felt boots and a belt with a rifled furiously applauding lezginka Kadyrov, beginning with the final whistle. Another sign of the times. FC "Krasnodar" comes to the place of the missing "Saturn", although in the first division is only the 5th place. That is, in the Premier League instead ramenchan not sent the third and fourth, that follows the rules, and the fifth. Why, then, was conducted in the first division championship? And football functionaries argue that the selection took place on sports lines. But that's not all. Place "Krasnodar" in the first division has also become vacant - which means that it must take the best club in the second division. But there it was! Instead of "Krasnodar" in the first division of the second division goes, attention, drum roll ... "Torch" from Voronezh, who finished in the second division the 17th place. We were born to make true Kafka! In general, Russia's south is a kind of Brazil. Huge unemployment and uncertain prospects for young forced them to drive the ball in the hope of catching the football fortunes. Such initiatives to achieve political goals understandable (reduce social tensions, ensure the correct voting in elections, etc.) has generously funded the federal budget. Part of the purpose is quite good. However, played on the policy, you can forget about the entertainment fields of football. Russian football championship risks never be in business and eventually lose all any prospects and fans. Decadent mood. "From the easy life we ​​were crazy. On the morning of wine in the evening hang-over "- these lines almost perfectly described by the Mandelstam mood that prevailed in the domestic football in the pre-crisis years, hushed in the post-crisis year 2009, but came back recently. Return, despite the enormous challenges faced by Russian clubs for the second year in a row. Last winter the previous rating of club budgets had to frantically remake: FC "Moskva" did not survive the regular disturbances in the "Norilsk Nickel" - the club was simply abolished, its place in the Premier League showed up Vladikavkaz "Alania", which was the third in the first division. Samara "Wings of the Soviets' long saved the world, millions of dollars of debt restructured painful and eventually pumped out, let the team and eventually suffered on the field throughout 2010. It would seem that these two case study should have much to teach came to power in the Russian Football Union Sergey Fursenko. We are especially wearied you with the details to help feel the depth of metastasis that hit the Russian football at the start of last season. Over the past year did not happen anything that would change what is happening in the Russian championship. Absolutely nothing. Well, that is, a lot has happened in a year: Change champion CSKA reached the quarter finals of the Champions League, the Russian football Fursenko has translated into the fall and spring track, Mutko, suggesting a "Frome Heath Hart," helped Russia win the right to host the World Cup in 2018, but all the same Fursenko promised to win it. But, like a year ago, the Premier League one club dies, the other painfully revived. But first things first. In November, near Moscow players "Saturn" openly acknowledged what okolofutbolnoy circles in whispers since July: the club has a problem with the salary. Naturally, no this was not surprised: the problems with salary and bonus payments - a common place in the Russian clubs. It seemed that everything will resolve: not the first nor the last time such a waste of time. However, in-yyasnilos that reality is more complex: Money from the Government of Moscow Region on the "Saturn" no. And at the very heart of the club for nothing, except a-vtobusa. December 30 the club was disbanded and the players got free agency status and vague term sue salary arrears. "Saturn", which is at the highest level, with varying success pylil since 1999, died two months incomplete. It does not look like you? In December, the president of "Amkar" Valery Chuprakov sensationally announced that the club is removed from the Permian of the upcoming season. The announcement came as a bolt from heaven, even the players' Amkar "confessed that they had no idea about the upcoming search for a new job. In the end, "Amkar" saving all the Ural Mountains, yet saved. The new president instead of bored Chuprakova became general manager of fertilizer Gennady Shilov, he also helped shape the budget season begins. From last year's agony "Wings" is one difference: in the "Amkar" not interceded powerful prime minister. Sadly, it turned out that the events of last winter did not teach anyone anything. Most clubs are still in the balance of the local authorities or in alliance with the sponsorship of a state corporation, of which, unfortunately, is finite and small. The new leadership of the RFU has not yet proved itself to specific actions, but in the asset team Fursenko definitely can be recorded only win the right to host the World Cup. The old leadership of the Russian Football Premier League continues to demonstrate a complete incompetent: a calendar for the season grind in March (!), Dramatic breakthroughs in making money, too, the League did not happen. Much of what is happening in the national football evokes strong feeling of hopelessness, against which stand out like little revelations of attempts to "Zenith", despite the impressive budget, deal with it the development of revenues (see interview with Director General of "Zenith" Maxim Mitrofanov - " F. »№ 39 of 25.10.2010), European Cup or the local achievements of the four clubs. A sense of hopelessness only growing stronger by the realization that in the football business had long been thought out, and nothing but laziness and habits of local budgets, debit, does not prevent the leaders of clubs, for example, in the same or Rostov Nalchik, earn money and develop football in the regions. And at this point is quite pessimistic prologue would like to draw your attention to one comforting fact: as I wrote above, in 2010, instead of the "Moscow" in the Premier League table with a third row of the first division rose "Alania". At this time, scattered "Saturn" manual RFS forcibly replaced fifth club first division - "Krasnodar", which belongs to the owner of "Magnet" Sergei Galitsky, whose dedication and love of football, of course, be welcomed. Thus, gained another Premier League club, which is owned by a private entrepreneur who loves football. I would like to believe that this vector will pull himself Russian football for pigtail from the swamp, where he is today. Explanation of the methodology. That's why we decided in addition to ranking clubs in absolute terms and introduce another indicator of the stability of a club: in a situation where football clubs are dying every winter, or desperately struggling for survival, the budget takes a back seat. In the same "Saturn," a year ago the budget was $ 42 million We have divided the club into three categories according to the owners and the political situation in the regions, and, in our opinion, this figure in the modern reality is much more important. Grading of this, of course, conditional, however, is based on years of observation for domestic football. For a long time in Russia there is a tendency, when public money is spent far more recklessly and indiscriminately. Guarantees of local government and regional budgets do not mean anything: Governor promises to allocate money may be meaningless words. Tranches monopolists can fly up the chimney. The club may be useless to the final whistle last match of the season. Only self-interest of owners (also applies to all state agencies, as is the case with Alexei Miller) serves a real guarantee of the viability of clubs. The experience of recent years, when the series died, or teetered on the brink of bankruptcy from 5 to 7 clubs of the Premier League, showed that only a strong hand to help the private owner to build us a football household properly. Meanwhile it is gratifying that, with the exception of "Kuban", all clubs belonging to private individuals, have the green light. Rating budgets for areas of reliability the economic situation of football clubs in the Premier League this year, "F." prepared by the ranking of club budgets on the basis of figures provided by the portal and Sports.ru own data. The basis of these figures are the results of the expert survey, as well as insider information from key players in the football market. "Zenith" - $ 165 million Stability "Zenith" is naturally linked to the stability of the largest gas giant in the world and gas prices. Alexei Miller, chief of St. Petersburg and a sincere supporter of the club and chairman of OAO "Gazprom" on-time, re-sign a new contract for the main job. The situation with natural resource prices is unlikely to change in the near future. And most importantly - in contrast to many clubs, the management of "Zenith" deliberately adopted a policy on the yield of the club self-sufficient. It is clear that despite the figure of $ 165 million per year until the course is a bit utopian, but now the St. Petersburg club, according to the previously mentioned CEO Mitrofanov, earns about $ 60 million a year. On all counts in the near future, "Zenith" can only increase revenue: to be guaranteed by the autumn campaign in the Champions League with a different level of income for the realization of TV rights, sooner or later build 60000th stadium. "Ruby" - $ 120 million Judging from the football standpoint, it is clearly in Tatarstan, the process of transferring power from the departed to rest, Mintimer Shaimiev to Rustam Minnikhanov (aka - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the "Rubin"). The increase in club budget of more than two times - another proof. The "Ruby" is still very closed from a financial point of view of the club. The club president Alexander Gusev (ex-head of the FSB of the Republic of Tatarstan) reported that, "urged donors not to disclose budget figures." We have long struggled with the temptation to label "Ruby" in yellow and could not resist: it is very much linked to a string of club budget with the political situation in the republic to the public, while the direct component of the football business at the club almost zero: Kazan barely walk to the stadium, respectively not sold paraphernalia, no income from tickets. "Locomotive" - ​​$ 90 million One of the major newsmakers of the last year and the end of the off-season, also falls into the yellow category of clubs. Last year, the president of the "Locomotive" was nominated Olga Smorodskaya, the first woman leader in domestic football. The first thing Smorodskaya quarreled with the head coach Yuri Semin, then the whole winter traded with Kiev "Dynamo" for Alexander Aliyev, in March, nearly bought a football player by the name of Yıldırım. According to rumors coming Smorodsky was associated with a desire to get rid of the leadership of Railways football burden. However, towards the new year, it became clear that this year the Railways to sell the football club will not be exact, and everything was back to square one: ample funding from the bowels of the railway monopoly, coupled with not the most effective football management. It is the lack of stable development of the club in recent years, the constant scandals, a sense of unease from the public squabble between the president and former coaches and players have helped to make the final verdict: "yellow zone". "Spartacus" - $ 85 million next season in Moscow club enters efforts rather symbolically in the coaching staff to the delight of the fans entered the legend of "Spartacus" Andrei Tikhonov. "Spartacus" significantly worsened the sports results in 2010, and this season has just deprived ligochempionskih money (it is the sum of 10-15 million euros). Leonid Fedun and "Lukoil" will continue to consistently fund the team and this season the question, in fact, only one: to find whether Valery Karpin - Director General - the head coach instead of Valery Karpin - coach. From the side it seemed that it hindered the development moonlighting as club and team. "Dynamo" - $ 80 million in 2010 "Dynamo" come into the role of chief schekonaduvatelya Russian football. At the moment the club sporting director Konstantin Sarsania promised mountains of gold, and President Yuri Isaev refused to open the budget amount, but admitted to league ambitions. Out of all this is a traditional "Dynamo" in recent years zilch: early retirement coach (replacing Andrei Kobelev Miodrag Bozovic came), inarticulate football, buying a Kevin Kuranyi with a salary of $ 5 million a year, the 7th place in the final standings. All this - against the background of building a new stadium in Petrovsky park, and a key point: the first year there is a conspiracy theory according to which the project sponsor VTB "Dinamo" in return for the right to build commercial property in Petrovsky Park. Once the stadium is completed, the generals of the Central Council of the society "Dynamo" may be faced with finding a new generous sponsor. CSKA - $ 70 million watch from the sidelines, as calmly and clearly directs the Army club Evgeny Giner, - a pleasure. Last year, CSKA achieved record results - reached the quarter finals of the Champions League and lost to future triumph "Inter". It is up to the last CSKA tried to intrigue in the Russian championship and did not give a "Zenith" to become a champion. In February there was a prolonged sponsorship deal with "Bashneft": According to Giner, it increased by 15%, the amount, as usual, is not called. Contracts continue to operate with "Aeroflot" and the company Hyundai. There is a construction of the stadium. "Anji" - $ 60 million in Dagestan finally come football feast: Suleiman Kerimov, the owner of "Nafta-Moscow", after several years of negotiations, bought "Anji" in the republic's leadership. January 17 Karimov met with President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov, and in February flew to Makhachkala, Roberto Carlos for wages $ 6 million a year. Basically, instead of number 60 in front of "Anji" could be conditioned icon "plus infinity" According to rumors, Karimov intends to spare no money for the joy of Dagestani, and the purchase of Carlos and much more relevant to the Brazilian Tardelli Zhusileem - only the first step . Haji Hajiyev, the coach, "Anji", has already stated that the budget should be doubled, vice-president of "Anji" Zaydin Djambulatov admitted that "before ... a mediocre team and the budget was below average. " "Terek" - $ 50 million is another source of gay news - the club out of Grozny. At the time, "Terek" was funded only by means of the regional public fund named after Akhmad Kadyrov. Then, among the sponsors of the club appeared Telman Ismailov and the closed bank. And in December 2010, Bulat Chagaev, director of concern "Sovamerikantreyd" who lives in Switzerland, decided to help the club out of his native city. As a result, "Terek" first led Victor Munoz (quickly fled), then - the legendary footballer and it is unclear what the coach Ruud Gullit, and then began negotiations with all the stars of world football once. As well as "Anji", number 50 quite conventional. "Krasnodar" - $ 40 million example of the club, who is trying to live within its means. Sergei Galitsky came up with the story of the "Krasnodar" to have another way to keep yourself in a business tone, otherwise, they say, life is too simple. The owner of the network "Magnet" has a very clear idea of ​​how the club should operate, striving for sustainability, and making conscious steps to a bright future: operates a boarding constructed stadium, etc. It is no accident management RFU, which professes the principle of " Football as it "has recommended - strongly, I suppose - Premier League to include in the upcoming tournament participants instead of the deceased," Saturn "is" Krasnodar ". "Kuban" - $ 35 million General Director of another club in Krasnodar - "Kuban" - Suren Mkrtchyan promised in this year's budget increase of 50% of the club. Source budget increase is the same: Uncle Suren Oleg - Director General of concern "ISD." This season, in any case be for a team record: never before "Kuban" was not late in the elite for over a year. The same championship last as much as up to May 2012. "Volga" - $ 32 million for a long time been considered an option where instead of "Saturn" in the Premier League will go down another club in Nizhny Novgorod - actually titled "Nizhny Novgorod". However, the leadership in the face of a former vice-mayor of Moscow Valery Shantsev has made it clear: the budget area will support only the "Volga". And indeed supported. "Wings of Soviets" - $ 28 million in Samara after the horror of last spring (before the intervention of then Putin's club rolled to a logical and shameful death), the situation is more or less bearable. Acting club president Victor Razveyev deserved a report on progress: after payment of debts of $ 10 million for the Year 2008 and 2009, "Wings," the ban on registration of new players. From the budget of the Samara Region club received 150 million rubles. "Rostov" - $ 28 million in 2010 money in Rostov ended exactly at the end of the first round, after the team surprised everyone at the start: no one expected such a hurried from the club Oleg Protasov, and the amount of bonuses paid on the basis of the first round, knocked down a club budget for the remainder of the season. In the end, "Rostov" issued a series of nasty injuries and decided the main task for the season - stayed in the Premier League. Athletic Director, "Rostov" Alexander Shikunov in December reported that the budget approved by the club at the same level as a year ago. On the question of whether not suffer the "Rostov" fate "Amkar" Shikunov responded that "management area ensured ... that the financial crisis at the" Rostov "will not." After this quotation it is clear why the "Rostov" is in the red zone. Handbook of guaranteeing the same thing a year ago. And the year before. That did not save the "Rostov" of financial problems during the season either in 2010 or in 2009. In fact, the "Rostov" can go on the road "Amkar" in May of 2011 - when another team will not budget the planned Super Series. "Tom" - $ 28 million Tomsk club at one time also held a fascinating process of pumping out all the worlds. In this off-season taught by experience, which do not take to determine how bitter, heads the field - in particular, the governor Victor Kress - said that it would be easier if the Prime Minister immediately appointed responsible for funding "Tommy." Putin demands a million and Victor Kress has not publicly responded, but in the end the budget laid out. In early March, the club CEO Yuri Stepanov, explained the origin of part of the budget: 100 million rubles club receives from television and sponsors Premier League, 120 million will come from the sale of season tickets, another 30 million - from the sale of merchandise. $ 500 thousand