Jágr did not pay, Kladno will terminate the contract for the stadium with the Knights – Sport.cz

The new facts do not mean that the Knights have to look for asylum immediately. “The course of the ongoing season is not in any danger,” said Vít Heral, spokesman for the city of Kladno, for Sport.cz. The notification period will not end before the last championship game of this year to play in. Whether it’s the A team, or youth, teenagers and so on.

It was decided to terminate the current contract the meeting city ​​council at the end of October. The city decided to take this step after the club failed to fulfill its contractual obligations. “Hokej Kladno, s.r.o., even after a reminder, did not pay the semi-annual installment according to the contract since 2013,” said Heral.

In the summer, Jágr asked the city to waive the payment, which the city council took into account, but they did not agree at the meeting. The club did not respond to the subsequent reminder.

The Kladno winter stadium belongs to the city, which leases it to the company Hokej Kladno, s.r.o., whose director is Jágr. The club pays two million crowns per year to the city’s treasury for rent. However, the city is responsible for all costs associated with the operation of the stadium, including staff salaries.

“The sub was a golden egg for hockey. All income from ice rental, restaurants, buffets and the entire amount from ticket sales will go to the club’s finances. So we have to stop and think why Jaromír Jágr can’t keep the long-term contract and pay two million kroner compared to the approximately 40 million this contract gave him,” said the mayor of ‘ the town of Milan Volf (Election for Cladno).

“I and my colleagues in the city administration support hockey and we want to support it, but the other side, to put it quickly, has to be interestingly the find out. We are ready to reconcile and make amends, we will never leave hockey alone. However, it is not possible to proceed in this way,” said Volf.

The contract was originally valid until 2032.

Sport.cz also reached out to the club for comment, but it has yet to respond.

Jágr’s relationship with the city’s current management is strained. Mayor Volf criticized the head of the club in the Spring, saying that it would be better if he was not in charge at all. In addition, in this year’s budget, the city did not count on a five million dollar subsidy for the Knights A Team, but it still supports the youth with 8.5 million crowns every year.