At the beginning of this interview, Davydov talks a lot about Liza's departure:
https://rsport.ria.ru/20210420/davydov-1729010330.html
I'll just put some Google translate stuff here (only obvious corrections):
- But it so happened that in this off-season the lines crossed: Liza Berestovskaya chose to go to "Crystal" to work with Eteri Georgievna. Was it a surprise or shock to you, or were you ready for it?
- No, of course, we are always ready for such transitions, because the result there is now better.
- But the competition is even higher there.
- Competition is the result. Where there is competition, there is a result. This is the choice of Liza and her parents, here I cannot say anything, how they look at it, how they see it.
- Is it Liza's choice? Or her parents?
- I can not tell. Most likely, while they are children, parents choose for them. This is still not an adult, this is still a teenager.
- Have you tried to persuade her to stay?
- What for? If a person has decided, if she already has this decision in her subconscious, if she wants to move, then it is better for her to move, because it's not going to work.
- But you can give some arguments, justify. You have invested quite a lot in it. She came with what, double jumps, right? You have brought it to a certain level.
- Many people think that they have outgrown their coach, that they need to go further, this is the main opinion.
- Did you break up normally?
- If I may say so - yes. Absolutely no abuse.
- Did the parents or Liza put this fact in front of you? Who said?
- Well, in general, we found out earlier.
- It is not the most beautiful situation if you learned from the outside, and not from them.
- The world of figure skating is such that if you only went beyond the threshold, everyone already knows that you went beyond the threshold. Moreover, both Liza and her mother understood perfectly well that as soon as they appeared at school No. 37, we already know about it. So they just broke up.
- How to save Sofa?
- No way. Work. Do not try to save - Sofa is an athlete, she comes, works, works. We need to build relationships. I cannot say that Liza and I had a bad relationship. We treat everyone equally, be it Liza or Sofa.
- It's just that if in the situation with Liza this is an athlete's initiative, then, for example, Sofa may find herself in a situation where the initiative will come from any other coach who will take a step forward and offer better conditions than at CSKA.
- Why are conditions in CSKA bad? Everything is just fine in CSKA.
- No, the conditions are excellent, but you can offer better. You can offer a mansion on Rublevka.
- Let's start with the fact that if anyone can suggest, it is "Crystal". Now going somewhere else than there is a step back. Probably a step back, or at least a huge risk, so to speak. I do not presume to judge, maybe not a step back, but a big, global risk, because it turns out that you are going where they have not done anything yet, and it is not known whether they will. Accordingly, there is only one move - to where they have done and do it from year to year, and do it well. Therefore, she is unlikely to be offered a mansion there, and in CSKA she has everything in order to win, take first places, insert quads into the program, and skate well. Absolutely all conditions.
), but I'll cheer for her. I like this girl a lot.
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Not that neither of those girls never stepped on Khrustalny's ice.. 
