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The worst team of the year burns tons of government money. Supported by Putin

What club does Vladimir Putin root for? Nobody knows that. But the range of opinions goes from the quite understandable Zenit to the exotic Schalke. He, according to the German press, prevented the latter from selling Manuel Neuer to Bayern Munich and praised Kevin-Prince Boateng for the transfer.

And between these options there is one team, which the President of Russia definitely wants victories, happiness and prosperity. To never remember her again. “I helped. Now they again ask for help. They once, then twice, then three, then asked for help for the fourth time. When will this end? ” – Putin answered in surprise in 2012 to another plea for salvation.

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Then the mystical principles of doing business, and even the transfer of Pavel Pogrebnyak, were raised to the state level: “With money to figure out where it goes. Pavlyuchenko, is he moving to Zenit? Pogrebnyak. They bought, say, the football player Pogrebnyak, right? Zenith bought it? How much was it bought? “Tom” bought it for how much, you know? You don’t know, I can tell you. Bought for one price, resold at Zenit at least five times more. Not by any percentage, but five times! “Where is the money, Zin?” All this is subject to careful study. “

Recently, Evgeny Savin made episodes about how football dies beyond the Urals, where club after club plunges into the frozen ground. But he forgot to mention that there is one team that is not afraid of death and will never die. After all, there should be football in Tomsk.

A banner with a fan slogan and a portrait of Putin appeared at the Tomi stadium after successful rallies of fans who demanded money for the club from the land, in the depths of which oil is extracted for all of Russia. The poster was removed long ago, but the invisible connection between the club and its main defender has never disappeared.

“Tom” justifies the support of the top officials of the state, calling itself not just a football club, but a large social project. A dubious statement for a team that hasn’t seen attendance above the average of 3,000 in recent seasons. Now the turnout to the stadium penal servitude has been reduced to 450 people, and the last match ended with a charge filled with loyalty and anger, “Only Tom, but you ******* (tired)”.

And this is after the inspiring February, when the governor of the Tomsk region, Sergei Zhvachkin, at a meeting with the chairman of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, agreed that 660 million rubles would be invested in the club this year. Of these, 300 are for the repayment of past debts, and 360 for current activities.

“Torpedo”, which fully disclosed the budget for the season, for the second year in a row is in the contenders for the RPL with funding slightly more than 300 million.

The president of Veles, who left the PFL and is going near the play-offs, said that he expects to meet a hundred. Akron and Irtysh, operating in the departure zone, have approximately the same budgets.

Tom receives cash every year for an easy fight for the RPL, but in the last nine years they have made it to the Premier League only twice. You must remember the last appearance in 2017 for the winter flight of veterans from lack of money, the full complement of young people in the spring and memes about midfielder Nikita Gvineisky. In one decade, the club received more than 5 billion rubles of state money, but the team’s best result during this period was the 13th place in the RPL in 2014.

Judging by the budget, Tom is destined for the fate of the eternal lift team, which is too rich for the FNL and too poor for the RPL. But now the elevator seems to be shorting out. For the last four seasons, the club in a state of artificial coma in the first division has been supported by money from state-owned companies.

15th, 3rd, 9th and the current 21st place – recognition that everyone is quite satisfied with the position of the eternal money burner. This is confirmed by the words of the president of the club, who put forward a plan a year ago on how to make Tom great again:

  • “We are not planning to go to the Premier League yet.”
  • “First, we’ll build a new stadium.”
  • “Let’s put things in order with financing.”
  • “We will open a football boarding school where promising children from all over Siberia will study.”

The club is walled up in the space of the FNL, from which the one who does not want to fly out does not fly out, but the one who wishes comes out. But also lost in time. For almost 10 years since the broadcast, when a hole was shown on TV screens instead of one of the stands at the stadium in Tomsk, nothing has changed much. It has not yet been restored, and the ruins are now covered with faded advertising banners for companies associated with Gazprom.

For the first time, they seriously started talking about the new stadium in 2015, and they remembered only last fall, when the authorities of the Tomsk region asked the federal budget for money for the construction of a modest 15,000-seat with running tracks and two stands. One of them is without a roof – and this is in Siberia. In Yekaterinburg, for the money that Tom received for another season in the FNL for several thousand spectators, they built a nice SKB-Bank Arena, where Ural played before the 2018 World Cup.

Instead of investing in Tomsk infrastructure, the money is used to maintain and strengthen the young team, which is already at the top of the FNL in terms of player value on Transfermarkt, but does not drag it onto the field. The death of the current version of the Tom roster will be recorded on September 19 at 15:00 Moscow time. Two strange penalties and a red one finished off the streak without victories at the start of the season to 10, and the club firmly entrenched in the penultimate place in the table.

This is how hell looks like, from which one cannot get out of it. Others will pull out. The first rescuers have already been delivered by special board from Moscow. 33-year-old Vitaly Denisov, whose last club was 2DROTS, will be in charge of defense, and 25-year-old Denis Davydov – for goals, headlines and promotion of the club in VGIK. With the latter already gone.

37-year-old Alexander Kerzhakov will move from St. Petersburg to Tomsk. In the plus, you can add the ability to score, and in the minus – he goes not to play, but to rule.

“His dream is to become a football coach, having passed all the stages of coaching. Such a position in life appeals to me and suits our “Tom” – the president of the club inspired the fans that they are the second step under the feet of a novice coach.

All Kerzhakov’s experience is the youth team of Russia. Last fall, he nervously led her to the final qualifying round of the European Championship, but due to the pandemic, the tournament was postponed from March to October 2020. This was enough for the governor of the region and the sponsors of the club to personally approve the candidacy of Alexander. With their help, Kerzhakov plans to take with him from St. Petersburg several Zenit players – in particular, Leon Musaev and Daniil Shamkin. And the transfer news will definitely not end there.

The story is very reminiscent of the appointment of Zenit youth coach Anatoly Davydov in 2013. Then it all ended in dismissal after five rounds. Did Kerzhakov miss the choice of the first club?

Now, with a ticket for 300 rubles, you can look not only at the total melancholy of Russian football, but also at the attempts of the Russian striker Alexander Kerzhakov to revive the career of Russian Messi – Denis Davydov. For this, there should be football in Tomsk.

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