Zenit: a competitor for Dziuba and Azmuna and aiming for a new limit

Only a few days remained before the closing of the summer transfer window in the RPL, and, it seemed, serious expenses from the Russian teams could no longer be expected. However, apparently, the Zenit is ready to organize a really high-profile transition. The current champion intends to acquire Alexei Miranchuk from Lokomotiv. This information has already been confirmed in the leadership of both clubs. A well-known journalist and blogger Vasily Utkin said that the St. Petersburg team offered "mega-money" for the football player.

“About the Miranchuk and Zenith.” As far as I know, Zenit needs one, namely Aleksey, and mega-money is proposed. At the level of Miguel Danny, plus or minus (then it was € 30 million), ”Utkin wrote in his Telegram channel.

“As far as I know, Miranchuk wants to stay. I am sure this is true, although I personally did not ask Alexei. Of course, there’s nothing to ask here, Semin wants the same. But the question is not closed. Then who is ready to sell Alexei Miranchuk and torpedo the Loko season in this way? .. I don’t know that, ”he added.

On the one hand, Zenit has already spent nearly € 60 million in the current transfer window. On the other hand, the team will not be prevented from gaining quality Russian football players against the background of the new limit on legionnaires coming into effect from the next season of the RPL. Miranchuk’s theoretical purchase will make the champion even more powerful, because Alex is one of the strongest RPL midfielders. However, the player himself may refuse to move to St. Petersburg. For example, in a recent interview with blogger Eugene Savin, he admitted that he would not go to Spartak or Zenit, but would rather go to Europe, especially if his brother was not called with him.

If Miranchuk’s transfer does not take place in the next few days, it’s unlikely that there will be any other transitions from Zenit, since the St. Petersburg team has already strengthened problem areas in the summer. However, if we talk about lines that the club would not hurt to strengthen, then we can, oddly enough, highlight the attack. Although Artyom Dziuba has the strongest duo of strikers Serdar Azmun at the disposal of blue-white-blue, they do not have any followers, since Luka Dzhorzhevich and Anton Zabolotny left the team. Thus, injuries and disqualifications of the main forwards can create a real problem for Semaku.

Lokomotiv: pending window closure

In the last days of the transfer window, it is difficult to expect any acquisitions from the RPL vice-champion of the 2018/19 season. In summer, the club spent almost € 20 million on the purchase of rights to Grzegorz Krychowiak, as well as on the acquisition of Dmitry Zhivoglyadov, Murilo and Djordjevic. Finally, a central midfielder João Mariou was leased from Inter. At the presentation of the Portuguese, the railway director general Vasily Kiknadze directly stated that the club’s transfer money had run out, but noted that the window was not yet closed.

However, the possible departure of Alexei Miranchuk can create serious difficulties for the team, because it will be almost impossible to find a replacement for him in such a short time. In the best case, Loko will have to hastily try to strengthen itself as a free agent or rent another midfielder. Perhaps Mariu and joined the team, based on the possible departure of Miranchuk. On the other hand, the Portuguese often acts much deeper than the Russian on the field.

Krasnodar: in search of a central defender and playmaker

Southerners, having made their way to the Champions League for the first time in history, carried out a truly active transfer campaign, but this did not help the team get to the group stage of the main European Cup. Moreover, due to a serious injury, Krasnodar almost immediately lost its main rookie Remy Kabell, for whom € 12 million was paid. In addition, the pillar of defense and captain of the Kuban team Alexander Martynovich received damage.

It is not surprising that Krasnodar urgently needed reinforcement precisely to the center of defense and to the position of the attacking midfielder. An inflow of fresh blood in defense of the team is simply necessary, if only because Murad Musaev can count on only three central defenders: Martynovich, Uros Spaich and Jon Houdni Fjoluson, and the injury of one of them becomes a serious problem for the coaching staff.

And the loss of the Belarusian turned into a catastrophe at all - without it, the southerners conceded six goals from Olympiacos. According to media reports, Krasnodar intends to strengthen the problem zone with one of the most promising defense center players with a Russian passport, Yegor Sorokin from Rubin. His transition can in the future help the team for many years and solve issues related to the new limit on foreign players.

According to some reports, the 23-year-old footballer who scored six goals last season of the RPL will move to Krasnodar for € 4 million and will receive 40-50 million rubles a year in the new club. In this case, until the winter, Yegor will remain part of Kazan.

But the midfielder of Younes Namli, Krasnodar supposedly intends to hastily replace the experienced Portuguese Manuel Fernandes, who did not renew the contract with Lokomotiv and is currently without a club. Despite his age, a technical, inventive football player is quite capable of helping the southerners at least this season. However, with the return of all injured people to competition, competition for a base position may be too great.

CSKA: negotiations with Komlichenko and Gogua in the final stage

If there is no specifics on the issue of possible transfers of Krasnodar, then CSKA has almost agreed on the transfer of the central defender of Tambov Cedric Gogua. On the one hand, the purchase of a Senegalese raises questions, because in the summer the army team already rented Zvonimir Charliy to replace Rodrigo Bekao. On the other hand, the season did not really start, and Viktor Vasin and Kirill Nababkin have already received injuries. Thus, another defender Viktor Goncharenko will not hurt.

They do not hide the quick sale of Gogua in CSKA and in Tambov. On Wednesday, the club’s sports director Pavel Khudyakov said that the RPL newcomer “almost made an agreement” with the red and blue ones and announced the need to “settle the details”.

But the army team needs much more reinforcement in the line of attack, because now Goncharenko at the tip of the attack can only rely on Fedor Chalov. He has no substitute. As a result, the striker had to enter the field in a derby with Spartak with a broken nose. Of the other strikers in the team, there is only Takuma Nishimura, but he plays rather as a drawn forward, and African champion among youth Lassana N'Diaye so far appears only in the youth championship.

It is not surprising that the army team are seriously interested in the forward of “Mlady Boleslav” Nikolai Komlichenko, who last season became the top scorer in the Czech championship, and recently issued poker. It was also reported about the possible transition of the Russian to Lokomotiv, but the railroad workers eventually strengthened the line of attack by Djordjevic. CSKA can pay € 2.8 million for the striker. He recently bluntly stated that he was open to offers.

Spartak: interest in the top scorer of the Czech Championship and the search for an opornik

Finally, the red and white in the summer also conducted a very active transfer campaign, but Thomas Zorn announced in mid-August that the club intends to strengthen the attack and the supporting zone before the window closes.

An additional striker red-white is really necessary, because at the moment Oleg Kononov is forced to rely only on Esekiel Ponce. And in recent RPL matches, due to the disqualification of the Argentinean, another eminent newcomer to the club Andre Schürrle came to the forefront.

According to the latest information, in the final days of summer, Spartak can strengthen its ranks as the top scorer of the Turkish Championship in the 2018/19 season Mbaye Djanu. The Turkish press reports that the Russian club is ready to pay € 9 million for a 191-cm powerful center forward, while the player himself will receive € 3.5 million in Spartak.

The performance of Djanu last season really was a revelation, because in the far from the weakest championship in Turkey, he scored 30 goals in 29 games. Watching this footballer in the RPL will be very curious, especially since another striker, who once moved from Turkey to Spartak, Emmanuel Emenike, had a pretty good career in Russia.

As for the supporting zone, here the situation for the red and white is not so critical, because in addition to Roman Zobnin and Ayaz Guliyev, Kononov can use the young and talented Nail Umyarov in this position, who looked very good in recent matches with Braga and Wings of the Soviets ". However, an extra opornik would still not hurt the team.