Nostalgia for Promes and contract renewal with veterans

The end of 2020 showed that Spartak needed to be strengthened, and from the very beginning of the year the club began working on the transfer market.

The first newcomer to the team may be the midfielder of the Dutch PSV Jorrit Hendrix.

Anton Fetisov, director of the red-and-white department for public relations, has already confirmed that an agreement has been reached between the parties and the player himself.

According to him, it remains only to wait for the results of the medical examination.

In turn, the athlete's agent Patrick Polderwart found it difficult to name the date of the procedure "due to coronavirus restrictions."

And Voetbal International columnist Marco Timmer suggested that the midfielder would sign a four-year contract with the Russian team.

Hendrix, who turns 26 in February, has spent his entire career at his native PSV.

Jorrit's profile position is the pivot zone, but the versatile footballer is capable of playing both higher in midfield and central defense.

And in the current season of the Netherlands championship, he even appeared on the left flank of the defense.

However, the rumors about the possible return of Quincy Promes caused much more emotion among the fans.

Hendrix's compatriot played for Spartak from 2014 to 2018 - and during this time he became the champion of Russia and the owner of the country's Super Cup.

As part of the team, the midfielder played 135 matches in all tournaments and scored 66 goals in them.

Even after leaving for Sevilla, Promes repeatedly confessed his love with red and white on social networks and recalled the Russian stage of his career with a kind word.

The discussion about the possible return of the football player began after the Moscow club congratulated him on his birthday on Twitter on January 4:

“Brother, with your day!

Today Quincy Promes turned 29, the best foreign scorer in the history of Spartak and a big favorite of the red and white.

We are always glad to see you in Moscow.

Happy birthday, Antokha! "

Soon, Russian fans, in the comments under the Dutchman's Instagram posts, began urging the player to sign an agreement with Spartak.

The midfielder liked one of these messages.

According to Sport24, the athlete really wants to return.

However, the current Promes club "Ajax" is unlikely to want to let one of their leaders go to Russia.

This season, Quincy almost always appears in the team's starting lineup.

In all tournaments, he spent 20 matches in which he scored six goals.

In particular, he hit the gates of PSV Hendrix in the last meeting of the Netherlands championship, which ended with a score of 2: 2.

It is also worth noting the message of Turkish journalists about the interest of Spartak and CSKA in the midfielder of Fenerbahce and the national team of the country Ozan Tufan.

In the current season of the Turkish championship, the 25-year-old has four goals and five assists.

However, the agency FutureBall, representing the interests of Tufan, stressed that there were no "official steps towards the transfer".

In the meantime, Hendrix is ​​waiting for a medical examination, Spartak extended contracts with two veterans of the team - 36-year-old Andrey Yeschenko and Artyom Rebrov.

New agreements with both are calculated until the summer of 2022.

The goalkeeper joined the red and white squad back in 2011 and is the main old-timer.

He has only one match this season.

Yeshchenko took to the field more often.

The right-back has 12 meetings in the national championship.

However, he never made it to the starting lineup.   

Return of Urunov to "Ufa" and a second chance for Mirzov

Meanwhile, according to media reports, the club is not only working to find newcomers, but may also part with some players.

Allegedly close to leaving the team, Alexander Kokorin, who missed the end of last year due to injury.

According to journalists, the striker has several options for continuing his career.

So, "Match TV" reported that the Italian "Roma", "Bologna" and "Fiorentina" are watching the Russian.

"Championship" wrote about the possible exchange of the forward for Matthias Normann in "Rostov" with a surcharge from the red and white.

Finally, the well-known agent Yuri Belous said that he received calls from Kokorin from the North American MLS.

However, all the rumors were dispelled by the athlete's agent Timofey Berdyshev.

He stressed that his client is not going to leave Spartak and intends to win a trophy with the team.

“Whether anyone showed interest is probably known to the club, we did not look at it.

Sasha wants to play here and is not going to go anywhere.

He came here to play, show his best football and win the title with the red and white.

We are not interested in other options now.

If only the capital's club is ready to consider some proposal and they come to us with it, then we will all think together.

We've only been here for six months.

Sasha came to benefit "Spartak", - quotes the words of the agent "Sport-Express".

Moreover, according to Berdyshev, Kokorin no longer experiences health problems and at the first training camp of red and whites in the UAE will work in a general group.

Pedro Rocha will also go there.

The 26-year-old midfielder has ended his lease with Flamengo.

According to the Brazilian RT journalist Fabio Aleisho, the footballer will undergo a medical examination on January 13, after which he will fly with the team to Dubai.

However, it is not known whether he will play for Spartak this year. 

The future of Auston Urunov is also in question.

According to media reports, he will still go to the first training camp with a base.

But it is not excluded that the midfielder will return to Ufa in winter.

The general director of the Bashkortostan club, Rinat Shaibekov, admitted that he would gladly agree to such an option, but this is unlikely.  

“We wanted to lease it with a purchase option at a normal price.

We do not mind.

We learned through both the agent and the player.

It's not so simple there, ”Sports.ru quoted Shaibekov as saying. 

Also, according to RB-Sport, Alexander Tashaev, who recovered from an injury, will start working with the first team of red and white.

But Ayaz Guliyev will continue to train as part of "Spartak-2". 

Meanwhile, Reziuan Mirzov, who is on loan at Khimki, can allegedly get a second chance in the Moscow team.

It is reported that Domenico Tedesco is personally interested in his return this winter.

However, the midfielder's agent Alexander Klyuev emphasized that the client feels good in the Moscow Region team.

“When everything is over, we will look at the situation that will develop.

There will be many important factors, including the desire of Spartak.

He still has a year and a half contract with the club, but his priority is playing practice.

Let's look at everything at the end of the season, while it’s silly to think, ”- quotes the agent“ Sport-Express ”.