Viborg defender Žan Zaletel doesn’t have the best opinion of Celje’s management: ‘When the new owners came, everything went downhill’
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There is no doubt that Žan Zaletel can be more than satisfied with the way his football career is developing. At the age of 20, he has 125 matches in
Telemach First League
Žan Zaletel , 23, is a member of Viborg, where he is under contract until June 2025. If we write that Celje, where he played before he first went abroad, is a distant memory for him, we are not far from the truth. But the defender has now revealed that his farewell to the Counts wasn’t the best. This is not too surprising, after all, he was on the sidelines before going to Denmark.
The director told him that he did not need to come
“Just before the start of the preparations, I had just had lunch, I was practically ready to go to the assembly, but I got a call from the club directors that I didn’t have to come. I was told I had an extended leave and should stay at home. After a week, I was told that I would not train with the team, but on my own. Similar things happened to a few other guys. While the team was training, we trained on our own for about three weeks and then I was told I could rejoin the team. It was already my wish to leave, so we had a few meetings afterwards and agreed to terminate the contract. Soon, we got in touch with Viborg and the transfer was realised quite quickly,“, explained the former member of the Ljubljana
Brava
, who also spent his younger years in Trbovlje with Rudar.
Everything was great until the Russians arrived
Žan Zaletel also admitted that many things have changed in Celje since the arrival of the new owners from Russia. For him, for the worse. “I have fond memories of Celje, especially the first two and a half years when we unexpectedly won the title. Everything was great until then, but then… I don’t want to point fingers at anyone, but when the new owners came, everything went downhill. The memory of the last year is by no means the best. I don’t know the specific reasons why I was taken out of the team, but the club already knew what they were doing,” added Žan Zaletel.
This text was automatically translated using AI.