“You always need to progress and change something for the better. But everything must be weighed and thought out. In general, I think this should be beneficial. If the creation of the fund leads to equalization of salaries, naturally, top-level legionnaires will stop coming to us. On the one hand, this is bad, but on the other, we will have to educate our youth, ”Khokhlov said in an interview with RT.
The initiative to create a fund for financing sports clubs belongs to the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin. He voiced it at a meeting of the Presidential Council on Sports.
Earlier, the ex-president of Spartak Andrei Chervichenko doubted the feasibility of creating a fund.