For foreign fans it is. But here in Slovakia is Slovan even more hated as before.
Another domestic teams have big financially issues, some of them will maybe gone (Skalica).
And our prime minister travel to Russia to search money for Slovan, what is actually a team owned by J. Siroky. The bilionare. I cant imagine, that he own couldnt find 13 mil. € to push it to KHL.
There will always be haters. Too bad for them. I know a slovak guy from the east of the country who does not like anything to do with Bratislava, the guy simply does not like Western Slovakia. We have to disregard such opinions.
At the same time, does it matter how the money is gotten? Look at it like this: the Russians got milked for a lot of money. Who cares how they got milked, the point is that they got milked.
Jussi then is apparently a very smart and clever person.
I was once tricked into thinking that he was smart too. Then I realized it's not so, it's just continual criticism. He admitted it himself, that progress is only brought through criticism. Now, any graduate student can tell you that they would probably fail their graduate studies if their advisor only gave unconstructive criticism, without any word of goodness.
that's where we disagree. i actually believe they won't go away any time soon. they will be there for decades.
Sanctions or not, Russia will still have a lot of money. It's a rich country. The big question is how long will they be willing to fund Slovan? If the news article is three years, then I would hope that the Slovak side gets their stuff in order by then, so that the Russians won't lose patience.
Slovan is not this thing called Medvescak... they are known to not be able to compete without Russian money, but Slovan is expected to live without Russian money at some point.
