Former CSKA Moscow football player Valery Masalitin believes that the club needs to release midfielder Sasha Zdelar if a lucrative offer is received.

Earlier, information appeared in the media that Turkish Besiktas was showing interest in Zdelar. The 28-year-old Serb’s contract with the Russian club runs until the summer of 2025.

— Besiktas is negotiating with CSKA about renting Zdelar. Should I give it away?

— If the club is counting on him in this period, then no. CSKA took the young Algerian player Aissaoui into midfield, and at the training camp it will be seen whether he will benefit the team or not. And so there is an oversaturation of the middle line, and someone needs to be sold or leased out.

– Who exactly?

– Mendes is questionable. And then we need to see who will be bought, because if foreigners sit on the bench, why are they needed?

— How do you assess Zdelar’s ​​performance in the first part of the season?

— At first he played well. He made passes, made plays, made good shots. Then they began to put him in the position of right-back, then central, then somewhere else. And it is clear that he did not show his best qualities. He is a solid footballer, but there is nothing outstanding to cling to. If there are good offers, we need to let him go,” Euro-Futbol.Ru quotes Masalitin as saying.

This season, Zdelar played 21 matches for CSKA in all tournaments, but was not effective.

After 18 rounds, Vladimir Fedotov’s team ranks eighth in the RPL WORLD table, gaining 28 points.

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