There is speculation on Russian boards - let me emphasize this is 100% speculation - that, and when she didn’t, she made the Instagram post and this was the first Plushenko heard of it.Eteri threw her out, supposedly assuming she’d come back
Their arguments for this:
1. Inconsistent timelines for Eteri and Daniil’s stories
2. Plushenko’s slow response, and not the most tactful one at that.
3. No response from Aliona at all
4. Federation said it didn’t have papers (it always says this) but then in an interview an official said something along the lines of “we won’t let the European champion be thrown out on the street”
5. Continued from number 4, Logan said she will still have to represent sambo even if she changes coaches, and the council won’t vote on it until September.
This is clearly a much bigger mess than it needs to be, and would have been, if it was planned back in May. Now the transfer can’t officially even happen to Angels of Plushenko until next year. There were claims that the Trusov family wasn’t aware of her transition until Friday either, and apparently tomorrow Aliona will train on the same ice as Stasya and Volkov’s group, but under Rozanov.
Again, this is all speculation. You can find it in Aliona’s threads on the Russian forum f s o.
I don’t know what to believe - except that we definitely do not know the whole story. That’s for sure. I will be supporting Aliona no matter what and hope she feels all our support during this hard time.
Why??? That is the always recurring question. There hadn't been any sign of tension between Aliona and EG or Aliona being dissatisfied with TT. She'd herself expressed her positive feelings about her new programs just a couple of weeks before EG's Insta announcement. And if it's true that the Trusov family weren't aware of Aliona's transition, well, they can't be honestly happy about it I guess, which might (or will) be a reason for conflict in the (near) future...