The 18-year-old midfielder is part of a huge change at Loko.

Last days mass media they are actively bombarding with insiders about the future of Krylia Sovetov’s 18-year-old winger Sergey Pinyaev, a young man who is on a par with Andrei Arshavin in terms of talent. This is the main plot of the upcoming winter transfer market. It is interesting that a large-scale migration of Wings players to Lokomotiv can begin on Sergey.

Infinite insiders and denials

It all started a couple of days ago. It was reported that the heads of Lokomotiv made Wings an offer to transfer three players – Maxim Glushenkov, Roman Yezhov and Sergey Pinyaev. Subsequently, information appeared that the residents of Samara refused.

The mood on the transfer market was further fueled by rumors that Spartak were offering the club 5 million euros for the leading young star. They were later refuted.

As the situation developed, new details appeared: the contract of the 18-year-old forward included an offsetting clause in the amount of 300 million rubles. Yezhov has 120, Glushenkov has 200. By the way, the breeders of the “red-greens” want to agree on a smaller amount.

Closing a deal is more real than it seems

Here you need to understand what is happening with Lokomotiv itself. From the changes in management it is clear where the interest in the student from Chertanovo comes from.

In October it became known that the chairman of the board of directors Yuri Nagornykh was nominated. The official in the past supervised “Chertanovo” and contributed to the appointment of Nikolai Larin to the post of director of the Academy. I know the people of the Nagorny Academy firsthand, hence the insider that the specialist will invite the former managers of the Academy Dmitry Polyatskin and Sergey Khabarov to Loko.

He also knows his students. In fact, another large-scale migration of Chertanovo representatives to Lokomotiv begins, so once Wings of the Soviets acquired a mentor for Muscovites Igor Osinkin, as well as a scattering of young talents: Lomaev, Gorshkov, Yezhov, Pinyaev , Kovalenko and others .

The agent can insist on the player being sold

One more detail is worth discussing. In addition to the fact that Krylia, in fact, is a branch of Chertanovo in the Premier League, more than half of the team has an agent – Pavel Andreev. Of the 14 such players, 10 are immediately students of the Chertanovo Academy. There are those who passed the career stage in Samara and ended up in Spartak (Zinkovsky), Sochi (Sarveli).

Andreev has many people from Chertanovo among his clients, so he probably knows Nagornykh, Polyatskin and Khabarov, who worked in this system. If what is happening now is the transfer of representatives of the Moscow Academy to Lokomotiv, then Wings themselves have no weapons to protect themselves. “Railroad” has tremendous influence in the form of an agent representing the rights of half of the players in Samara. The players themselves are pupils from Chertanovo, so Nagornykh knows all the same well.

Even in the insider information about the “railway”‘s request for a possible transfer, not only Pinyaev appears, but also Yezhov and Glushenkov.

The scheme is similar to a real robbery. If Wings fail to protect their interests, there is hardly a chance they will stay in the Premier League.

Pinyaev is a victim of agency games

At least it could be. Wings in their current state is an excellent environment for developing and further selling young talent. But the agent had a good opportunity to settle his clients in Loko and earn money. If the “railway workers” manage to carry out the “resettlement”, then there will be no trace of the established squad connections.

In this case, Sergei himself will probably leave. What awaits him at Lokomotiv? The ruins that German managers have left behind. You shouldn’t expect a clear profit from the “red-green” – during the recent transfer companies, the club’s debts only increased and efficiency from zero acquisitions. The new bosses have to solve the financial problems and the coaching staff have to get the team out of the relegation zone. The prospects for Muscovites themselves in the near future are unclear. It cannot be excluded that for a couple of seasons Loko will remain in the status of an average player. Not to mention the prospects for young talent. And this goes for a player who has done an internship in Manchester United and the debut in RPL at 16. Arshavin himself, by the way, compares this with himself and Ronaldo:

Does Pinyaev remind me of this? Sometimes yes, since he’s not that tall. But in terms of the position he plays in and the way he likes to move in the centre, he reminds me more of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Wings mentor Osinkin is quiet he admitsthat the winger still interests United:

Can Pinyaev still go to Manchester United? Today, maybe. Right now, Manchester only needs him for the future. Sergey reached a high level when he got stable playing practice. The fact that Manchester are taking care of him and monitoring his progress is good. But we must honestly admit that there is still a lot of work to do to reach the level of such a club.

But because of the agent, perhaps the main Russian talent of the previous generation Manchester United may not reach. He will find himself in the “Loco” crisis and instead of progressive progress he will try to pull the “railway workers” out of the pit.