Barak Abramov did not speak at the start of the season. Bnei Yehuda’s owner chose not to speak at the start of the season, but an investigation by The Marker, which claimed that Bnei Yehuda’s owner marked his next business partner, Erez Kalfon, made him comment on the issue in “5 in the Air.”
According to the same publication by journalist Shuki Sadeh, Abramov plans to issue the Jafnica company he owns on the stock exchange, and in recent weeks he has raised the possibility that Erez Kalfon will be the company’s chairman after the IPO, in what constitutes a conflict of interest.
“Erez Kalfon tried to help me in the meeting so that it would be easier for me to join the stock exchange,” Abramov explained. “At the same time, there is no conflict of interest here. This affair is a storm in a glass of water.”
“When I was asked if I was going to the IPO who was going to be the chairman or the CEO, I said I wanted Erez Kalfon. I also said that there is a problem with that because he is the chairman, but that I may not be group chairman until May Or he is not the chairman of the board. There was no conflict of interest here in any sense. “
Later, Abramov rejected the allegations against him and clarified that there are bigger problems in Israeli football, unrelated to it: “I know a lot of things about Israeli football. If I expose them, the earth will tremble. No one threatens me. At the end of the year I will decide about my future, right now I do not tend to leave football. “
Abramov was also asked about the possibility of owning Betar Jerusalem, a possibility he rejected at least at this stage: “If I own a team next season, it will only be in Bnei Yehuda. Beyond that, I do not want to expand. ”
The Football Association’s response: “Contrary to Barak Abramov’s remarks, the chairman of the Football Association, Oren Hasson, has no business relationship with any of the team owners. We are sorry for Abramov’s unfortunate choice to lie with a determined forehead and for the foolish attempt to insert the name of the association’s chairman into an event unrelated to him. “
