Mladen Krstajić, sports director of Partizan Football Club, was dismissed from that position on Monday by decision of the Board of Directors of the current champion of Serbia. Aleksandar Stanojević, the coach of the first team, from the Maldives said that because of this outcome, he too is leaving Partizan, and the coach of Partizan's "branch" Teleoptik, Vuk Rašović, also resigned.
According to the vice president of the club, Mile Jovicic, Krstajic was relieved of his duties due to "serious violations of work obligations and duties and unprofessional attitude". The session of the Partizan Board of Directors followed Krstajić's press conference on December 22. On it, among other things, he accused the president of the club, Dragan Đurić, of behaving "like a dictator" and "as if Partizan was his private club", of interfering in the work of the sports sector, and of attributing all the successes to himself, and blaming the sportsmen for the failures. part of the club.
"When they bring 80 percent of the money to Partizan, as the sports sector brings at the head of the youth school, then they will be able to talk about who did what and how much," Krstajić said then, and wondered "where is the money from the Champions League, where 15 million were earned last year".
To this, Dragoljub Vukadinović, a member of the Board of Directors, stated that "what Krstajić said seems like ordinary nonsense", and that "the accusations are such that this time someone will have to end up in prison".
For now, the epilogue is the dismissal of the sports director, as well as the resignation of the first coach Stanojević - even before yesterday's Board of Directors meeting, he said that he was "one hundred percent with Krstajić", and that he had announced his departure to the club's management if the sports director was replaced.
To remind you, at the end of August, after the surprising elimination from the Northern Irish Shamrock, Partizan was already on the way to being without a coach and sports director, only then the roles were reversed - the press widely announced that the president of the club Dragan Đurić and the Board of Directors replaced Stanojević and there was speculation as to who could replace him. Mladen Krstajić, who had held the position of sports director for less than three months at the time, resigned "for moral reasons", after which the Board of Directors withdrew its decision and Stanojević remained the coach.
After the debacle in European competitions, a very successful autumn half-season followed - Partizan is convincingly first with 10 points ahead of Crvena zvezda. Two weeks ago, at the "pre-New Year's cocktail", everything seemed idyllic. Both Đurić, Stanojević, and Krstajić were present, and President Đurić said in his speech that Partizan believed in their coaches, players, their children and their school, and that they showed that one failure cannot shake a healthy club. "We stood behind the coach and the team and we were right." Or... I was right," said Djuric, referring to the relegation from Shamrock.
Currently, Partizan has neither a sports director, nor a first coach, nor a coach of the youth unit in Teleoptik. The vice president of the club, Mile Jovičić, announced the holding of the regular Assembly of the club in the next month, and the president Đurić stated today that the first coach "received the support of the Board of Directors and that it is up to him to decide what to do next." However, how certain it is that Aleksandar Stanojević will stay in Humska can be seen from Đurić's next sentence: "We will resolve the situation quickly, in the next two or three days, and we are already working on alternative solutions, and I can tell you that they are in play." big names".
