Crvena zvezda and Partizan are preparing their teams for the new Euroleague season, but at the moment they are in completely different situations. While the red and whites have almost completed the roster, the black and whites have only one official reinforcement and a big job before the start of preparations
Belgrade clubs Partizan i Red Star they are making teams for the next Euroleague season. Zvezda has almost completed the staff, while Partizan signed only one player.
For the fifth season in a row, the Belgraders are performing together in the strongest European competition. In the previous four seasons, only Partizan 2023 played in the playoffs.
After the end of the season, Crvena zvezda made changes in the sports management. Former Red Star basketball player Miloš Teodosić was appointed to the position of sports director.
Teodosić after the shift coach Saša Obradović decided to bring the Spanish coach Ybon Navarro, who until now coached the Spanish Unicaja.
On the field, the red and whites strengthened by bringing in four players in playmaker Chris Jones, guard David Kramer and centers Patrick Baldwin and Jonathan Motley. The club from small Kalemegdan, on the other hand, parted ways with five players Cody Miller-McIntyre, Ajze Kenan, Donatas Motijeunsas, Hasijel Rivera and Uroš Plavšić.
The contract of Serbian national team member Dejan Davidovac was extended, and he will play in Belgrade for two more years. American Jerad Butler signed an extension for another year, so he will play for the red and whites until 2028.
Crvena zvezda has almost completed the team, it remains to strengthen the rotation in the central position.
After a turbulent season in which Željko Obradović left the club, Partizan left the Spanish coach Đoan Peñaroja on the bench.
The black and whites have a confused transfer window so far, they have officially ended the cooperation with eight players. Nick Kalates, Aleksa Radanov, Dylan Osetkowski, Shake Milton, Sterling Brown, Dwayne Washington, Isaac Bonga and Bruno Fernando left the club.
Only center Kevarius Hayes has been signed so far. With that, Partizan became the last club in the Euroleague to announce reinforcements.
The contracts of captain Vanja Marinković, center Tonja Džekiri and playmaker Karlik Jones were extended. Partizan intends to build a team around Jones, this was also announced by club president Ostoja Mijailović in an interview with Mozart sport.
Partizan currently has only 10 players under contract, among them is the American Jabari Parker, with whom the termination of the contract is being negotiated. As all the Euroleague clubs have almost completed their teams, it seems that Partizan is a bit late, because they will not have many options for assembling the team. He has options from the NBA, still free Euroleague players and players from the lower levels of the competition.
The eternal rivals arrange the budgets of the basketball clubs in a similar way. Both clubs base their finances on state funds from the budget and sponsorship contracts with state firms. A large part of the money comes from the sale of tickets in the Belgrade Arena. The third aspect of finance is sponsorship contracts with private companies.
The budget of Crvena Zvezda in the previous season was 20 million euros, the president of the club said Željko Drčelić.
The Red and Whites earn three million euros from sponsorship with the bookmaker Meridianbet, while they earn two million euros from Telekom Srbija, he says. Radar weekly magazine. In addition to them, Crvena zvezda's sponsors are Banka Poštanska štedionica and Dunav osiguranje, but it is not known how much they finance the club's work.
Partizan will have a slightly larger budget for the playing staff in the new season, club president Mijailović said in an interview with Mozzart sport. The budget of the previous season was 27 million euros and was the largest in the history of the club.
The Black and Whites intend to buy a part of the ownership of the Euroleague in order to obtain a permanent license to participate in this competition. Belgrade clubs currently play the strongest European competition with a three-year license, which expires in 2027. The price of the license for one year that they pay is one million euros. The price of a permanent license would cost around 50 million euros, with the possibility of repayment over five years.
Mijailović spoke about the structure of Partizan's budget before the start of last season. At the time, he said that 17 percent of the costs (4.6 million euros) were covered from state resources. In addition to direct funds from the state budget, Partizan also receives five million euros from state sponsors Naftna Industria Srbije (NIS) and Telekom Srbija. The biggest income is season tickets, which cover almost 50 percent (13.5 million euros).
Source: Sportklub, Radar, Mozzart sport, Max Bet, Basketnews
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