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5th place. “Dynamo”
Akhmat could have been here, but in Grozny they won’t argue that Dinamo have a completely different status in Russian football, much higher. In the spring, the capital team almost became the second RPL, and six months later, only two points clear of the club that sacked Talalaev. Muscovites have few losses, just two, like CSKA and Krasnodar. But Jokanovic is not necessarily the right coach for a team that has gone in the direction of the fight, but with aggressive and offensive football. And now they got on the bus. Loss of players is a factor, but let’s ask logical questions of Pivovarov and Buvac. Fans have legitimate claims on the transfer policy. They were late with the newcomers, they would throw them out for more than six months, and they would assemble a new team for the spring. Dynamo fans are rightly concerned. When a Moscow club has problems with management, flaws in the game automatically appear. Buvac and Jokanovic may have miscalculated in the choice of central defenders. All three candidates are young and unstable. They may also overestimate Smolov and Tyukavin. The attacks were not effective, except for Grulev’s final actions. Dynamo is partly not their fault when it comes to the departure of Schwartz and the players, and partly because of the actions of the bosses, only in seventh place. Not only can Zakharyan play better in this lineup, not only Norman can have questions about the readiness of the newcomers.
4th place. “Urals”
Mr. Ivanov is not as professional in football as he thinks, being on the edge next to the coach. This is a colorful character, one of the symbols of the character of the whole RPL, do not argue. Ivanov definitely loves the Urals. It is not the case that the manager does not understand the subject at all. Since the mid-nineties Ivanov has worked in the Sinara miniclub, also in the Cup Uefa once won. But “Ural” could not reach such heights in great football by definition. And Ivanov’s decisions have only made things worse lately, because there is no one to correct his actions. It is clear that it is impossible not to give Zenit and Lokomotiv such talented players as Adamov and Kuzmichev. But the resources of the Urals are running out, too often near the relegation zone. As soon as there are funding problems, they will be relegated to the second tier, and this will be an offensive end to the path of a colorful Yekaterinburg club. But deserved, because Ivanov attached a lot to himself. Shalimov or Gancharenko are expendable, like other coaches in the Urals. He was also lucky that Bikfalvi’s wife’s name is Alina and not Dina or Florina. If Eric’s wife had been Romanian, she would have taken her husband away RPLor for the beginning of Ekaterinburg.
3rd place. “Spartacus”
As without “red-white”, if we talk about jokes when managing clubs RPL? The departure of Fedun, Alekperov and their closest relatives from Spartak has been read since the spring. And now they have a broken managerial depression, because it is not even clear in which direction the fans should fight, demanding changes for the better. There is no money for transfers, since they took a € 100 million donation for infrastructure, which paid two billionaires for an entire stadium and the largest club in Moscow. There are no high-level rookies, Cagliari deceived Balde. The man called to the defense center refused. The director chosen by Abascal refused. The management offered Guillermo to win against Zenit with the help of the productive Sobolev and Promes, but the presence of the managers does not distract from the discourse on the absence of the sporting director and the president of the club. He is just as ugly without power as with power, which is emotionally driven. We doubt that Spartak will be put in order as soon as possible, even if we wish such an epilogue to the fans: only the stability of the richest clubs will not allow them to lower the level RPL hopelessly low. Spartak play better than they are managed after the change of owner.
2nd place. “Khimki”
Politicians are bad entrepreneurs. Therefore, in developed countries, they surround themselves with consultants who understand business, sports, history and so on. Since Khimki is a municipal club, the president is the head of the city district of the same name. And very often in the public space we hear from deputy Roman Teryushkov. Talk about all topics below and now in the club RPL a certain Nikolai Olenev, a former deputy deputy, became the general manager. The young man has no experience in football, but at least he participated in the organization of large tournaments in various sports. True, it is one thing to build infrastructure for world Cup, and the other is running a club where six general managers have been replaced in two years for a dime. No company will perform well with such a high turnover of executives. Khimki was no exception. The team was shattered by the scandalous resignation of Yuran, who was certainly not Guardiola in terms of technical intelligence, but Glushakov and the club were suitable as head coach. The result without a mentor is 14th place, 6 losses in 10 rounds. And also a broken game in defense, even if they started the season with a draw against Zenit, having worked brilliantly only in defense. Khimki broke, three coaches in ten rounds is wild.
1 place. “Locomotive”
When the second most spent club in the last seven years RPL turns out to be in twelfth place after a third of the way, so you can and should blame the players and coaches. But it is strange to ignore the actions of the management. As the owners of Russian Railwaysand manager, Plutkin and Zorn. By the way, what is the name of the club’s sporting director? Definitely not Rangnick. The German gave a lesson on how to be successful as a de facto consultant and then fled to Manchester. He left the carrier alone: recruiting young people for a lot of money, but without Ralph the overpayments for beginners of dubious value began. We have lost some players and, even worse, we have completely lost strong football. Lokomotiv has some advantages, we evaluate them objectively. But it is not a given that Zinnbauer’s resignation will solve all the problems. Although this decision was also delayed, because they do not want to pay compensation either to him or to Compper. They have not forgotten how they gave Nikolic three million euros. Russian Railways they can intervene if they dive into the relegation zone. So Lokomotiv will have a new leadership with a new mentor. But who to bet on not to fly away? Osinkin is good in his own right, because his bloodless Wings of the Soviet scored one more point than Lokomotiv. But the coach has no experience of working in such a difficult club as Moscow. Lokomotiv often had particular leaders, but rationality won. Now they lose often – in the middle of games RPL.
