The saga with the transfer of Artyom Dzyuba to a foreign club is dragging on. Neither Ferencvaros, nor Red Star, nor Fenerbahce have yet signed a contract with the strongest Russian striker of the last decade. And it is very likely that they will not sign it.

Dziuba had been asked to marry abroad many times before, but he never left. Artyom named different reasons: from simple reluctance to graters with agents. However, there is a feeling that this is something else.

Just outside of Russia, the attacker will lose his main strength!

“Thanks to all the assholes”

Dzyuba’s farewell to Zenit turned out to be quite resonant. Artyom recorded a video in a Deadpool costume and made a very colorful speech. In it, the striker thanked the team, the coaching staff, the staff and the club’s management, and then remembered those who criticized him all this time.

– Thanks to all the assholes for the compliments: you constantly gave strength and forced to overtake you on bends. It would be boring without you! – Artyom says in a video posted on his official Telegram channel.

Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexey Danichev

Dzyuba has always had a special relationship with haters. It was they who made him the Dziuba, who in recent years has undoubtedly been the best Russian striker. Artyom, as if on purpose, got into various scandals, in order to then respond to the negative with a bright performance on the field.

He dragged RPL outsiders like Tom, Rostov and Tula Arsenal when he was expelled from top clubs. He became the star of the Russian national team, in which no one believed before the home world championship. He helped Zenit defeat Krasnodar the day after the same video hit the net. For many years, a negative media background has been around Dzyuba, but he regularly finished the season as one of the first scorers in the championship.

Welcome to San Marino!

Now imagine that Dziuba ended up in a foreign championship. Whether in Turkey or Hungary, it doesn’t matter. It will be a different language environment, a different information bubble. Artyom will be forced to exist in a foreign reality, which is incomprehensible to him – a man who has grown roots in Russian football and has become a kind of cultural unit in it.

Artem Dziuba / Photo: © FC Zenit

Even if we assume that Artyom will be scolded by fans and experts, it will be a long time before he learns the language and begins to at least slightly navigate the local media space. All insults will seem distant and insignificant to Artyom, like an earthquake somewhere at the end of the world. This means that he will have nowhere to draw motivation from, because all these years the forward’s engine has worked exclusively on the bile of haters, processed into sports anger.

Perhaps, the San Marino championship would be ideal for Dziuba, because the local fans, as you know, “love” him no less than their compatriots. Speaking seriously, Artyom cannot leave Russia. Only here can he play at a high level, only here can he feel like a part of a seething industry in which he is assigned the role of a bad guy.

Perhaps Dzyuba himself understands everything, and therefore is in no hurry to leave. In the end, he had chances to try himself abroad, but he never took advantage of them. So why would you suddenly change yourself now?