Point reinforcement of "Zenith"
The current champion of the country "Zenith" before the closing of the summer transfer window solved two key problems at once.
First, a strong goalkeeper was found in a pair with Mikhail Kerzhakov.
Secondly, they managed to save Serdar Azmun.
The club's goalkeeper line was strengthened by Stanislav Kritsyuk, who played two matches for the Russian national team.
According to Transfermarkt, the Petersburgers paid the Portuguese Zhil Vicente € 2 million for him. The footballer himself signed a contract for the season with the option of prolonging one more season.
The newcomer blue-white-blue, as always, was presented with imagination.
His transition was reported using
PowerPoint presentations.
At the same time, the video was overlaid with the song of the Leningrad group “Ecstasy” with the words “You are just space, Stas”.
“This is probably the biggest challenge for me, and it is very exciting how it will turn out.
I feel positive excitement and look forward to when the whole team will return from the national teams, and we will begin to fully train, ”the official website of Zenit quotes Kritsyuk.
As for Azmun, the media sent him to a number of well-known European clubs, but the striker remained in Russia for now.
According to the Iranian, he received offers from Lyon, Bayer, Roma and Tottenham, but the club rejected all of them.
However, according to Corriere dello Sport, the Romans remain interested in the forward and intend to sign him next summer as a free agent.
Serdar's contract with Zenit expires at the end of June 2022.
It is possible that the Petersburgers will extend it, as they have already done with Douglas Santos.
The new agreement of the Brazilian is calculated until the end of the 2025/26 season.
Bulk purchase of Lokomotiv
However, Lokomotiv remains the most active Russian club in the transfer market.
During the summer window, the railway workers spent more than € 30 million and bypassed all competitors in the RPL in terms of this indicator.
In early September, the Red-Greens ended the campaign powerfully. First, right winger Girano Kerk was bought from the Dutch “Utrecht” for € 6 million. Then the epic ended with the transfer from Chelsea of 19-year-old attacking midfielder Tino Angorina. As expected, the current Champions League holder is leased from Londoners for a year with a priority buyout option. The player's salary, according to RB-Sport, will amount to € 1.5 million per season. For the national team, the legionnaire will perform under the tenth number, which previously belonged to the legend of the club Dmitry Loskov.
Finally, the Muscovites organized a notable internal transfer - for € 7 million they purchased from CSKA the defensive player Konstantin Maradishvili, who this season has lost his place at the base of the army.
Earlier, Nair Tiknizyan followed a similar route.
The general director of the red and blue Roman Babaev said that Loko promised the midfielder of the Russian youth team a place in the starting lineup and a “multiple increase in wages”.
According to the father of the athlete Koba, his son moved to the camp of three-time champions of the country not because of money, but for the sake of further development.
“Transfer is just a step forward, a step towards progress, an opportunity to open up new perspectives and new challenges.
Nothing more, ”the Sport24 man quotes.
Curiously, immediately after the signing of Maradishvili, the club was banned from registering newcomers due to a debt to the former defender of the team Solomon Kverkvelia.
Loko promised to fulfill the RFU order in the near future.
Solid earnings for CSKA
While one of the capital's grandees spends a lot of money to strengthen the composition, the other earns the most.
We are talking about CSKA, which in the current transfer window received almost € 43 million for Nikola Vlasic (€ 30 million), Maradishvili (€ 7 million), Tiknizyan (€ 5 million), as well as the rent of Arnor Sigurdsson (€ 800 thousand).
In turn, the army team, according to media reports, intended to strengthen the ranks of Milan's right winger Samu Castillejo, but failed.
Allegedly, the domestic team was ready to rent the Spaniard, but in Italy they insisted on including the buyback option for € 8-10 million in the contract. At one point it seemed that the deal was close to completion, but on Monday the domestic media announced the completion of negotiations.
The reason is CSKA's unwillingness to pay rent.
Meanwhile, Babaev said that the red and blue could earn even more on Vlašić than they received in the end - € 35 million. Zenit was ready to pay this amount for the Croat, but the capital club refused.
Transfer throwing "Spartak"
But Spartak's campaign can hardly be called successful.
The ten-time champions of Russia have so far limited themselves to buying out the transfer of Viktor Moses and the acquisition of defender Maximiliano Kaufriz, which has raised questions from the fans.
At the same time, the team was left by the key defensive player Alex Kral.
Unsurprisingly, in recent days, the red and white are trying to strengthen the midfield line.
They intend to close the hole in the roster at the expense of Danil Glebov.
The 21-year-old footballer is a key performer of Rostov, and in the spring he went to Euro 2020 as part of the Russian youth team.
According to
Eurostavka, the capital's grand is ready to pay € 5 million for the midfielder, but everything will depend on whether Rostov agrees to transfer Gabriel Pires from Benfica.
So far, Spartak has limited itself to the decision to keep Georgy Melkadze and refuse the services of Baltika's defender Artem Makarchuk.
Apparently, in the near future, head coach Rui Vitoria will also retain his post.
On Saturday, the club noted that the Portuguese "enjoys the full support of the leadership."
“Today, for example, Vitoria talked for a long time with Leonid Fedun and Yevgeny Melezhikov, discussed current affairs in the team and ways out of a difficult situation,” Dmitry Zelenov, head of the press service of the red and white, told Sport24.
This information was also confirmed by the Portuguese edition A Bola.
Allegedly, at this meeting, the specialist "expressed full confidence."
The main success of "Rubin"
In the meantime, Rubin, who occupies the fifth place in the RPL standings, managed to solve, perhaps, the key task of the summer.
Kazan kept the main star of the team Khvich Kvaratskhelia in their ranks.
Back in August, it seemed that the Georgians were about to leave Kazan.
In particular, it was reported that there was a substantive interest in him from Tottenham.
But at the beginning of September, the domestic club announced that the midfielder hadn’t been sold yet.
“Khvicha is going to the Georgian national team and is still in Rubin.
No proposals were received from Tottenham, "RBC quotes Rubin's general director Rustem Saimanov as saying.
In Italy, it was reported that Milan, which was also actively interested in
Khvich, did not even begin to make an official offer due to the too high cost - € 20 million.
Along the way, Kazan tried to rent Konstantin Kuchaev from CSKA, who fell out of the base under Alexei Berezutsky, but was refused.
It was about an agreement for a year with a buyout option.
Work at the exit of "Krasnodar"
Krasnodar, on the other hand, is trying to find a new team for one of the most eminent students of the club academy, Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov.
A couple of years ago, the winger was one of the most talented young football players in the country.
And in 2019, the southerners refused to sell it to Borussia Dortmund for more than € 20 million.
Two years later, the situation has changed dramatically.
The midfielder finally lost his place at the start and this season he entered the field only once from the first minutes.
In the last two RPL matches with Lokomotiv and Rubin, he remained in reserve at all.
According to RB Sport, the bulls offered Suleimanov's services to Ural and the Turkish
"Kayserisporu". Yekaterinburg has already denied this and stressed that they are not negotiating on Magomed-Shapi. But "Akhmat" and "Nizhny Novgorod", according to the latest information, intend to rent an athlete with the right of subsequent redemption.