By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
In their official announcement, the 2017 ABA and Serbian League champions inform that today (26/7) all debts to Gal Mekel have been paid in full.
Mekel had signed a one-year contract with Crvena Zvezda on August 2015 but moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv halfway through the season, on January 2016.
Red Star also mentions that they had previously notified basketball authorities on “irregularities” and “illogical aspects” behind the case of Gal Mekel and they add that FIBA ignored their appeals when they decided in favor of the player.
The club asks FIBA to find ways to remove the ban today (26/7) thus allowing the transfers of new players. Something that the heavily shorthanded Red Star is truly in desperate need of.
Crvena Zvezda hasn’t signed any new players so far during offseason and is looking for ways to cover the huge gaps left in its roster after the departures of no less than eight (!) members of last season’s outfit: Charles Jenkins (to Khimki Moscow), Marko Simonovic (to Zenit St. Petersburg), Marko Guduric (to Fenerbahce), Ognjen Kuzmic (close to Real Madrid), Luka Mitrovic (to Brose Bamberg), Stefan Jovic (to Bayern Munich), Nate Wolters and Deon Thompson.