The president of the football club Buducnost Veselin Mijač confirmed in a press release that he is retiring from the club.
Mijač also stated that he will manage the club for the next four months.
Two days ago, it was announced that Mijač, through a lawyer, informed the majority shareholder, the Capital City, that he was withdrawing from the club, together with his company "Savana".
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In the contract that "Vijesti" had access to, Article 10 states that the contract can cease to be valid in one of the following ways:
"Unilateral termination of the sponsor at any time, with a notice period of 120 days, whereby the sponsor is obliged to settle all contractual obligations due by the expiration of the notice period".
Mijač and his company took over the management of the Budućnost Football Club in September 2019.
Mijač's statement is transmitted in its entirety:
"As is well known, after much consideration, the company "Savana commercial retail" canceled the sponsorship contract between FK "Budućnost" Podgorica and the Capital City, but I will manage the club in the next four months as the president.
We all have another championship year behind us, after all, every one since I took over Budućnost has been full of trophies, and on the new title I congratulate the sports director, the professional staff and all the employees of the club, whose contribution is immeasurable.
I consider the four-year mandate that is behind me extremely successful, I am proud of everything that has been done, and especially of the fact that we have returned the championship gene to the club and that it has become and survived the most trophy-winning club in Montenegro with 10 trophies.
I don't want to talk about what happened in the past, but the fact is that Buducnost won five trophies in 13 years before me, and in four years with me at the helm and in the system I set up with the employees - also five.
Three titles and two Cups, along with a historic double crown.
However, titles are not the only representative of one club, and Budućnost, as the largest Montenegrin club, must be the locomotive of the development of Montenegrin football. And in the last four years it has become that. From the first team, through a complete camp adapted to European conditions, to the Youth School.
That's why I'm as proud as I am of the titles, maybe even more proud of the recovered Youth School, from which we promoted a large number of first-team players. Some children have achieved notable foreign transfers, which will benefit the football team of Montenegro in the future, and some individuals will make great careers to the joy of all of us.
Don't forget that we have a talented "generation of 2004" and an even more talented "generation of 2006", which made up the majority of the cadet selection of Montenegro, which lacked a goal to qualify for the European Championship, which would be the greatest success in the history of our national teams. By placing themselves in the elite round of qualifications, our cadets wrote the greatest success of the Montenegrin national team in the last 10 years.
That locomotive, which has 120 employees and requires an annual budget of between 2.200.000 and 2.500.000 euros, will continue to work safely during the next four months, because as president I will fulfill all obligations regarding financial operations.
And when I was coming, I knew that I would have problems with "crosswinds", but simply as a president who has invested a lot of energy in the club for four years and as someone who loves Buducnost, I cannot get over the fact that Bubućnost is belittled during my of departure.
Social networks are a necessary evil of today's age, and the deputy mayor of Podgorica, Danilo Saranović, instead of engaging in politics in a serious way, tries in various ways to minimize everything that has been done and comments from his Twitter account, 'It was miserable. Not anymore.' to the news of the cancellation of the sponsorship.
I'm not used to such provocations and I don't want anyone to insult the people who work in Buducnost, as well as the people who support Buducnost, in that way. My warm recommendation is that their strength and concentration should be directed towards the maintenance of the system and the functioning of the club, and less active advertising on the same social networks, because the system of a European club such as Budućnost cannot be maintained if too much time is spent on mobile devices.
If it is "miserable" to win three titles and two Cups in four years, to create two super-talented generations from which the future and Montenegro will benefit, to regularly pay 120 employees without a day of delay, to transfer players that have not been done for years, to invest up to 2.500.000 euros per year, then let it serve to your honor.
In this way, the club you are supposed to manage is not tarnished. For the next four months, everything will work as it has so far, and I hope it will be even better. And I hope that you will have the strength to provide the finances that are inevitable in football.
I hope so, because the Future is above all of us," said Mijač.
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