After the departure of Slobodan Drapic and Shai Barda and in light of the difficult season that Betar Jerusalem is going through, which did not even make it to the top playoffs and will fight in the lower playoffs, the team owner, Moshe Hogg, is currently attending a press conference about the Jerusalem club. Live broadcast on the ONE website and channel.
The owner talks, among other things, about his ambitions for next season, the failure of the current season, the salary of the players he intends to lower, the expected investments in the club and also the dealings with the La Familia fan organization.
Betar’s owners will also try to clarify what its goals are for the coming years and what budget Betar will set for next season. In addition, Celebrate will talk about the current status regarding the acquisition of the group by Sheikh bin Khalifa and his subsequent moves on the subject.
Betar owners, Moshe is celebrating, He said in his opening remarks: “I am here to stay, do not want to leave and I did not want to leave. It is important to remember that football is not a profitable business. This is a donation and philanthropy, there is a love for football, but it is not a profitable business, it is a business that loses a lot of money every year, I am in Betar for a third season, it cost me over 110 million NIS to date, I did not come to make money, I do not think There are owners who deserve to make money. ”
“I came to do good. I came to do something important, Jerusalem is important to me, I love football, I saw not simple problems and I decided to deal with them and try to change – so I came. As a football fan, I sometimes and sometimes take to heart maybe more than I need to. It is very difficult for me to look at Betar coldly and analyze actions as I do in business. I have emotions and love, and when the club loses, as every fan takes it with him, I take it a little more. “
“It has a price beyond money. This statement is contrary to family will. I got to a point where the family did not die for what was happening, when winning there is a lot of joy and that is good, but when there is disappointment and there is a lot, and there are almost no moments of contentment, it goes into the home, affects my energy and my business. In this aspect, I need to be stronger to make the separation. “
“I do not break when it is difficult, I need to stretch my waist, not break, do research on how to do it better and move forward. Before the conclusion phase, I will say and note – I do not know of any place or institution to which I contribute that there is exclusivity. “If there is someone somewhere who wants to donate, and I am not looking for a partner, I did not look with the sheikh either, but if there is someone who thinks he can do it better and invest sums, the door is open.”
“No need to call the owner‘ you ’, no problem. There are two cases where I will go for a minute without any struggle. One if I feel that most of the audience is behaving racistly, but that is not the case, most of the audience is far from being racist, but if anyone wants a pure ‘Betar’, or they do not want me, I will not be here. If the whole crowd wants me to go, and not 150 or 200 racists, then there will be no war, I will at that moment stand up and go. If there is anyone who can do better than me, I will remain a fan and I will continue to contribute to the club. “
“If he comes with someone with abilities and tools greater than my own, I will not stop him, I will not stop any player or any club. If there is any billionaire with a fortune who wants to invest more than what Moshe Celebrates has invested – I will not stop him. When we put it behind us I will conclude, I do not see it happening in the meantime, I am here, I will continue to invest time, heart and money. I put the part behind us and want to approach the audience issue. The subject of the audience is complex and very important, the most important. “
“We do not play football in the neighborhood, there are professional players, I see it as a kind of performance. All we do is for the audience and for the audience to be happy and satisfied and feel great pride in his team. At the same time, Betar’s audience is, in my humble opinion, one of the most complex audiences in the world. This is probably also what arouses global interest around this audience, and I will detail – this is the largest audience in Israel, we asked website owners about the traffic, and where we did not check we found that it is the largest audience in the country. “
“At the same time, one has to recognize the reality – the large crowd arrives in quantities relatively small for the stadium, and at the level of revenue is light years away from the other big ones. Maccabi Haifa and Tel Aviv bring in almost three times as much, and the Hapoel B’Shlosha and Hapoel Tel Aviv audiences also generate more income. Does not close his eyes even to racism. The share is much smaller than people think and understand. When a tree grows you do not hear, but when it falls you hear a lot of noise. “
“When half a million are silent and 200 are growling and cursing, hearing and talking about them, and the situation where there is a share in the audience, regardless of the war in me, because those same people fought every owner, they all lifted on their shoulders in the first moment and fought him later to leave. Doing what they think. The same handful could go as far as burning the club, right in reality. The share called La Familia is also divided, there are also good people, I do not believe that everything is black or white and there are good people who do bad deeds, they also do a lot of good deeds
“Just as a kick can not speak of me being a good husband but hitting you, so too this piece can not for a whole game curse our king of goals, should not act like that, there is the opposing crowd that will curse us, want a crowd that loves and supports fire and water, and not To talk about Ali Muhammad who is a fantastic player, who suffers from readings from this section throughout the game, and all the stories that it is not because of his name, is disrespectful to everyone’s intelligence. “
“Believe me, I’m not looking for wars, I wish we could just focus on football and fight on the pitch, and not spend time and energy off the grass. “This is not the ideal time to choose wars, we do not look good but we must be real, this piece does damage to Betar for years and years and it will not stop and will not stop if it is not stopped.”
“There are some good people there, but towards 10 or 20 of their leaders who take extremism and engage in graffiti and intimidate other fans – should stop for the sake of the other sane fans of the team. Unfortunately, we do not have the cooperation of state institutions on the subject. The Ministry of Justice belittles this when arresting people giving them two weeks deportation and more in the corona era. In England when you growl at a player, you are kept away for life at Chelsea, and there is no reason for us to do it any other way. Therefore, the club itself will keep fans who growl away from home and away games permanently. “
“There is no doubt that this season is a professional failure, what is important is to look ahead. Already next August begins the next season, and the test will be to see how to learn and draw conclusions. I will start by myself, I have a responsibility because I am the head of the system, I see the role of the ‘president’ to outline the ideology and way of the club, professionally and culturally, and in this aspect I think I succeed, professionally I think I made a mistake in my focus, I directed the whole club, “I know that I and the fans love attacking, I aimed for attacking scouts in a league where the defense is the one that wins.”
“Players on teams that take titles are hungry players who run 11km every game, and stars are cut right away even if they are very talented. There are players I brought from other clubs and cut from there, not because they don’t know how to play, they were cut because they don’t work hard enough on the grass. “I sinned in this aspect of the focus on the level of commitment to the talent, I was captivated by the dribble and did not give enough respect to hard work, and that is something we must change towards the next season and beyond.”
“The other aspect is hunger, I think here in the aspect of salary it is my mistake, sometimes I gave salaries that made people full, in the aspect of hunger that it does not produce in them, a person feels too comfortable in his work and does not get the best out of himself, and that is a mistake. “Sometimes I gave up because I really wanted a certain player, and I did not take into account that with such a salary they will not look forward to the next stop, if you are a footballer you should be hungry to come to Europe and not hungry to earn a few more shekels.”
“There are players who have this hunger, there are players who have had the hunger and progressed, we put much more emphasis on looking for such players, who understand that inflated salaries should be in Europe and not in Israel, and to get there you have to give good seasons at a club like ours and move on. Here the responsibility was mine for navigating the ship. “
“Regarding the professional manager, I am not a professional manager and never have been, most of the time I do not deal with the team but my business, there is no coach I bet on, I always just pass my opinion, I did not force any player on any coach I just said my opinion, even in the case of Eran Levy and Guy Luzon, but at the same time, I’m involved as every owner is involved, I say my opinion, I have an opinion, and come and say you just have to put money and move aside it’s disrespectful, it’s ridiculous, it will not happen and it did not happen, who does not work like that, who Whoever comes in here loves football and wants to express his opinion, the one who makes the decisions is the coach. “
“There are players in the squad in whom I invested over NIS 30 million that I asked to bring in, I received approvals of course, there was no coach who said no, there were other players I wanted and coaches said no, so I did not bring. There is a difference between involvement and forced intervention, I wanted Micha and Noble, but there was a professional manager that I very much respect, Yossi Benyon that I really appreciate, and he did not want them, and although I really wanted, he is not in Betar, so I continue, there was half a season “Tabib was successful and said, ‘I am a professional manager.'”
“Do not swing the ax at me, not because I am afraid of it, but because I do not deserve the credit of a professional manager. We are not currently looking for a professional manager, I do not see one like this in any team in the league, 15 years back I remember only 2 who were dominant, maybe one actually, Jordi Cruyff, other than that there was no one dominant in the position. Yossi Mizrahi will be the temporary coach during this period, until a coach is found. Put the name exchange aside, since I am looking for a foreign team, I think that depending on what I want to be in Betar, commitment and fighting, an important coach who does not know the names and local industry and agents. Neutral and professional, with a European mentality
“I want to repeat the vision going forward. In the previous game against Ashdod, not the last but in the cup, there was a moment in the game that changed me a lot, a moment because of which I called and talked today with Idan Vered and asked him to continue with us. This moment was when Idan Vered lost a ball, got to his feet, ran, made a glitch, pulled a ball back with her, advanced and handed Jordan Shua a conqueror. This moment for me symbolizes what Betar should be, fighting, without compromise, to leave everything even when we lose, and we lost to Ashdod. This moment is dramatic for me, hope it will be dramatic for the club, it’s a real captain. I’m glad to see that he’s also looking better professionally lately, he’s gone through non-judgmental periods. But this moment that a young child sees the captain lose a ball, run, fight and do not give up until he takes it back, this is what should be seen in Betar. We must remember and admit that Maccabi Tel Aviv’s budget is close to 5 times Betar’s budget. Although I see that money does not speak, there is a limit. When it’s 5 times it speaks. We can not win with money, this can not be our way. We have to win in a different way and that can only be precise thinking and the choice of staff, the character of the players going forward. Even in their culture as human beings, and the things that happen this season at the club are not acceptable and we will put them in order, we see it from leaks, through ego battles, early departure and all sorts of such things are not acceptable. We must find a better unity in terms of access to the game, the club, the respect for this symbol. At the same time people who come to work, who are not ashamed to roll up their sleeves, stars as they may be, and get down on the grass and get balls and get dirty and sweat. The glittering signings may be more here and there, but that is not the focus of Betar Jerusalem Kadima. There are enough stars, the Betar crowd should look forward to seeing players running 11km each game and leaving everything on the grass. I’m sure talent alone sometimes in flickers can win games, but hard work never has a replacement over time. Never, we will focus on what we want to put as a top value for commitment.