International Center for Sports Research in Football (CIES) on Alexei Batrakov from Moscow “Lokomotiv” and a player from the capital CSKA Matvey Kislyak among the best young footballers in the world. The organization’s website reports it.

Batrakov was recognized as the best attacking midfielder in the world among players under 22 years old, Kislyak topped the ranking among defensive midfielders in the same age parameter. Both rankings are compiled among players who do not play in the top 5 European national leagues (England, Germany, Italy, Spain and France).

Batrakov is 20 years old; this season with Lokomotiv he played 23 games in various tournaments, in which he scored 15 goals and 6 assists. Kislyak is 20 years old, this season he scored 5 goals and 5 assists in 27 games with the Army team.

Orenburg removed the midfielder Romana Eremenko by the team for withdrawal, as there is still no agreement on his participation. This was announced by the club’s deputy director for Commerce and Communications Yuri Arakelyan.

In the initial post on the Orenburg Telegram channel it was noted that the 38-year-old Eremenko was on trial with the team and would be going with the team to a training camp in Türkiye. The club later republished the post with the composition of the team, removing the Russian champion of the 2015/16 season from it. CSKA.

“At the moment there are no clear agreements with Roman Alekseevich Eremenko. There have been contacts,” Arakelyan said. — But there is no agreement yet on whether he will fly with the team to training camp. If anything changes, the club will inform further.”

Eremenko’s last club was Finnish Gnistan, for which he played since 2024. Previously, the midfielder played for Moscow CSKA and Spartak, Rostov and Rubin Kazan, with whom they won the Russian Cup and the national Super Cup. During his career, Eremenko also represented the Finns Honka, HIFK and Jaro, the Italians Siena and Udinese and Dynamo Kiev, with which he won the Ukrainian championship.

In 2016, Eremenko was banned for two years by the disciplinary committee of the Union of European Football Associations for finding traces of cocaine in a doping sample. The footballer was born in Moscow, but played for the Finnish national team, for which he played 73 matches and scored 8 goals.

Football player for Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russian national team Dmitry Barinov he rejected the club’s offer of a new four-year contract. This was stated by the railway workers’ sporting director Dmitry Ulyanovcommented the club’s press service.

The current deal with the player will last until the summer of 2026.

“As for Dmitry Barinov, I can report that, having become the new general director, Boris Borisovich Rotenberg immediately resumed negotiations with the footballer’s representatives and with the player himself before the start of the unprotected period of the contract. The result was the offer of our student a new four-year contract, corresponding to his playing, leadership and captaincy qualities. The footballer’s team rejected this proposal. In December the football club CSKA an offer was made to buy out the rights of a player from the main Lokomotiv team, which the club did not accept for sporting and financial reasons,” Ulyanov said.

“Knowing Dmitry well, I am confident that he will continue to conscientiously fulfill his professional obligations and give his all to the team until the end of his current contract with Lokomotiv, as he has done while playing for us all these years – disciplined, with his innate professionalism, respect for the club that raised him,” added the Lokomotiv sporting director.

Barinov is 29 years old. He graduated from Lokomotiv, for whose main team he played 274 matches in various tournaments, scoring 13 goals and 27 assists. As part of the club, the footballer won the Russian Cup three times (2017, 2019, 2021) and the championship once (2018) and the national Super Cup (2019).

Barinov took part in 23 matches for the Russian national team, recording 2 assists. Together with the national team, he participated in the final part of the European Championship, which took place in the summer of 2021. In this tournament, the Russian team won one match out of three and could not leave the group.