Seluk Criticizes Shpilevsky as New Low for Par NN

23 hours ago7 min read

Dmitri Seluk has unleashed a blistering critique that cuts to the very heart of the crisis at Pari NN, branding the appointment of manager Alexey Shpilevsky as a catastrophic new low for the beleaguered club. Seluk, a figure never shy of controversy, articulated a sentiment that many supporters have feared since Shpilevsky’s arrival in the summer of 2025, a move that saw him replace the dismissed Viktor Goncharenko.The statistical reality is damning; after 14 rounds in the Russian Premier League, Pari NN is anchored to the bottom of the table with a paltry seven points, a position that screams of systemic failure rather than mere misfortune. Seluk’s fury was particularly ignited by Shpilevsky’s recent retort to critic Vladimir Bystrov, where the manager questioned Bystrov’s own credentials.This, for Seluk, was an act of staggering audacity from a coach whose own resume he dismantles with surgical precision. He contends that Shpilevsky’s prior tenures at Cypriot side Aris Limassol and Kazakh club Kairat were triumphs of circumstance, not coaching genius.At Aris, Seluk argues, the club’s financial dominance—comparing its budget advantage to that of Zenit St. Petersburg within its league—meant that ‘even his grandmother could have succeeded.’ This is a theme he echoes for Kairat, a club he insists was destined for championship glory with or without Shpilevsky’s input. The core of Seluk’s argument is a classic footballing parable about the danger of conflating a club’s inherent strength with a manager’s tactical acumen.He paints a picture of a coach who, empowered by a Belarusian owner at Aris who treated him as a mere functionary, began to believe his own hype, only to be ultimately exposed and dismissed. The historical precedent here is stark; we need only look at the fate of coaches who jump into leagues with vastly different pressures without a proven, transferable philosophy.The situation at Pari NN now presents a grim tactical tableau. With a month remaining before the winter break, plus an interval for international matches, a mid-season sacking seems a futile, disruptive gesture.However, Seluk’s call for the club to immediately begin the search for a new manager to oversee winter preparations is a sound, if desperate, strategy. It reflects the cold, hard analytics of a relegation battle: survival is not won in the spring, but in the meticulous work done during the winter transfer window and training camp.This saga is more than a simple managerial dispute; it is a case study in club governance, the perils of misguided appointments, and the brutal reality of a league where financial and sporting pressures collide. Seluk’s final, devastating metaphor—that while Goncharenko’s tenure was considered the ‘bottom,’ Shpilevsky has now ‘knocked from below’—will resonate as a chilling epitaph for this chapter in Pari NN's history unless a dramatic turnaround is engineered.

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