{"id":487101,"date":"2026-03-08T15:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487101"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:10:17","slug":"partizan-belgrade-mijailovic-we-will-never-pay-a-player-more-than-1-5-million-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/partizan-belgrade-mijailovic-we-will-never-pay-a-player-more-than-1-5-million-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Partizan Belgrade, Mijailovic: “We will never pay a player more than 1.5 million again”"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a disappointing 17th place in the EuroLeague standings and post-season hopes long since vanished, the atmosphere at Partizan Belgrade is somber.<\/p>\n

Breaking the silence in a brutally honest interview with Meridian Sport<\/i> was President Ostoja Mijailovic. His words spared no one, ranging from transfer market choices to the financial management of the roster.<\/p>\n

The most sensitive topic addressed by the president concerned Jabari Parker<\/b>. Mijailovic revealed shocking financial details regarding the player’s loan to Joventut Badalona, admitting that the operation proved to be a total failure from every perspective.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s no secret: we are paying Parker \u20ac300,000 a month<\/b>,” Mijailovic revealed. “We wanted to get rid of at least part of that contract and allow him to play elsewhere to find him a placement for next season, given that we still owe him \u20ac2.5 million net<\/b> for next year. We only managed to extract $230,000 from Joventut.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The president did not mince words when describing the deal: “It\u2019s an absurd amount of money. I have nothing against Parker\u2014he\u2019s a great guy who simply didn’t fit in\u2014but he was a colossal mistake by our staff<\/b>. I regret that we, as a board, agreed to sign that deal.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Mijailovic\u2019s overall assessment was merciless. In addition to Parker, the president cited the case of Milton<\/b>, highlighting how the club’s heaviest investments turned out to be the most unproductive.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, we paid \u20ac5 million for two players who made our team worse<\/b>,”<\/i> he candidly admitted. While he spoke kindly of Milton’s character (“a fantastic guy, but he didn’t settle in and was unlucky with injuries”), the weight of a budget burned without on-court results remains.<\/p>\n

Mijailovic confirmed that as long as he remains at the helm of the club, Partizan will never pay a single player a salary exceeding \u20ac1.5 million net<\/b>. The only exception to this new, rigid rule involves an unnamed domestic (Serbian) player, who would represent the only permissible deviation.<\/p>\n

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“I proposed, and the Executive Board accepted, that we no longer pay for contracts larger than \u20ac1.5 million net<\/b>! As long as I am president and economic circumstances remain like this, it will never happen again!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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