Jun 6, 2009, 2:15 pm
Olimpija will reduce their budget. They were team with the lowest budget in EL last year (aproximatelly 2.5 M â⬠for players), now they will reduce it even more (to about 1.5 M ââ¬). That put under uncertancy Vladimir GoluboviÄ, Mirza BegiÄ, Vlado Ilievski and Jasmi HukiÄ, since only their amount of salary is somwhere around 1.5 M. They will try to "get rid of" BegiÄ and Ilievski and sign new center and point guard.
Duà ¡an ÄorÄeviÄ is first reinforcment, he's coming from Bosna and will be backup PG (first PG Ilevski or someone new). They will need also a SG (some names from Italia are in the game), a PF (Zupan and MaraviÄ are FAs, and neither is good enough to be first PF) and maybe a C if BegiÄ/GoluboviÄ will be sold. But the problem is money... We can't expect from Olimpija to contend for secound round of EL and FF in ABA next year.
Coach Zdovc will probably stay despite he's very critical of managment board which doesn't want to hire a sport director (GM). Too many interest of different gropus in managment and someone would loose his influence in such case . word of Zdovc himself. Very sad for a team with low budget which would need extreamely good managment to compete...
Duà ¡an ÄorÄeviÄ is first reinforcment, he's coming from Bosna and will be backup PG (first PG Ilevski or someone new). They will need also a SG (some names from Italia are in the game), a PF (Zupan and MaraviÄ are FAs, and neither is good enough to be first PF) and maybe a C if BegiÄ/GoluboviÄ will be sold. But the problem is money... We can't expect from Olimpija to contend for secound round of EL and FF in ABA next year.
Coach Zdovc will probably stay despite he's very critical of managment board which doesn't want to hire a sport director (GM). Too many interest of different gropus in managment and someone would loose his influence in such case . word of Zdovc himself. Very sad for a team with low budget which would need extreamely good managment to compete...