Torpedo Moscow board member Anatoly Khodorovsky said the club is not ready to play in the Russian Premier League (RPL) in the 2022/23 season.
“Our club was not ready for this, there was never a serious club infrastructure. Therefore, as a club, we were not ready to enter the RPL, ”explains Khodorovsky. “Match TV”.
Avtozavodtsy returned to the RPL last summer after several years of absence from the top league of the Russian football championship. Black and white team got 3 wins, 4 draws and 21 losses at the end of 28 weeks. The team has collected 13 points and is in the last, 15th place in the standings.
“Torpedo” lost the chance to stay in the RPL ahead of schedule – at the end of the season the team will return to the First Division.
Torpedo will play at home in Orenburg and away with the capital Lokomotiv in the two rounds remaining until the end of the championship.
Member of the board of the former Moscow football club “Torpedo” Anatoly Khodorovsky spoke about the unsuccessful transfer of striker Artem Dzyuba.
The striker extended the contract he signed with Lokomotiv until the end of the season until 2024.