Alexander did not go to the training camp with Fiorentina. Looking forward to his return to the RPL?
Recently, Fiorentina pleased itself with a new purchase – Serbian striker Luka Jovic, a direct competitor of Alexander Kokorin, moved from Real Madrid to Italy. Sasha already had few chances to play in the camp of the “violets”, and now they are striving for zero.
Colleagues from RB Sport reported that Kokorin did not go to the training camp with the team. Among the players who trained in the Italian Moena, the Russian was not seen, and the sources of the publication claim that the striker has already spent his last training session at the club.
Fashion for the removal of Russian athletes, you say. But no, the citizenship of a football player has absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s not even about the coronavirus, as it was said initially. The whole problem is in Kokorin himself. It’s no secret that Alexander did not pull the level of Serie A, the club has long been looking for loopholes to get rid of the odious striker. And here also Jovic complained.
Apparently, the crack (as Gennady Orlov would say) has finally been found. Are we waiting for Sasha in our native RPL?
How Fiorentina could have screwed up with Kokorin like that is a mystery worse than a UFO. It seems to be a serious club that claims to European cups, but buys an unmotivated and traumatic player. Due to injuries, Alexander played only 10 matches in all tournaments for six months at Spartak. Did the Italians really hope that they would be able to put him on his feet and bring him back to his former level? It is quite possible, because their compatriots Fabio Capello and Roberto Mancini, who worked with the forward, sang great in their ears. They positively characterized Sasha, and the leadership of Fiorentina took their word for it.
But the miracle did not happen, in Italy the Russian showed himself from the worst side. Alexander has never played so little: 11 matches in all tournaments in a year and a half (an average of about 20 minutes per game), zero goals, zero assists. It’s not just bad, it’s a disaster. The market value of Kokorin in Spartak was about 4.5 million euros, now the forward is estimated at 800 thousand. There is a regression. Is his health really failing him, or did Alexander just score on football?
If Alexander is no longer training at Fiorentina, then where to go next? The first thing that comes to mind is RPL. The last place where Kokorin looked good was Sochi, moving there looks organic. Moreover, the southerners recently sold top scorer Mateo Cassierra to Zenit, he needs a replacement. But there are two questions: will Alexander be able to find the proper motivation in himself and what salary will he require? Definitely, after the Italian voyage, he should moderate his appetite, but as for motivation, Sasha is as unpredictable as the euro exchange rate.
On the other hand, Kokorin may end up in Asian clubs. There are no bright prospects there, but there are good financial conditions, which is probably more important for Sasha at the moment. But if he suddenly decides to prove to all of us that the football player Kokorin was written off early, then welcome to Russia. We will only be happy if Alexander falls in love with football again and scores beautiful goals.
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Former coach of the Ukrainian national team Jozsef Szabo Meta.ua has exclusively chosen the version of the three best Ukrainian football players of this season for its website.
“In the first row, Ilya Zabarny is almost out of the competition,” Sabo said. – As far as I remember, there has been no regression in the game yet. Yes, the defender had unimpressive tackles, but these were isolated cases. But he’s only 23 years old. The contract with Paris Saint-Germain shows that this football player is currently one of the best in Europe. And do not forget that at that age he played 55 matches for the Ukrainian national team.
I will give second place to Ruslan Malinovsky, who seems to have found a second youth after being injured. This guy’s head is clear, making great passes is not difficult for a midfielder. Largely thanks to Malinovsky’s effective play, the Ukrainian national team managed to qualify for the play-offs in the 2026 World Cup qualifying tournament.
The third will be Everton’s left back Vitaly Mikolenko. He is a consistent starter for his team. And no matter what position the team is in, the English league is still the strongest league in Europe. He is an irreplaceable football player in the national team.
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Forward from Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba he wants to play as a goalkeeper for the rest of his career.
“I would be interested in trying to play in goal at least once. I would like to do it in the match,” Dzyuba said.
Dzyuba is the best scorer in the history of Russian football.
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Leonid Slutsky last year he performed well as coach of the Shanghai Shenhua football team. This opinion was expressed by the striker of Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba.
Last season, Slutsky took second place in the Chinese league with Shanghai Shenhua and led the club to the Asian Champions League playoffs for the first time. The team also won the Chinese Super Cup.
“He’s doing well in China, the only thing he was missing was a championship, everything was leading to that,” Dziuba said. “But it’s tough for a team that’s been in fifth place all their life, they don’t have that winning mentality.”
Slutsky is 54 years old and has been at the helm of the Chinese club since December 2023. In his career he has coached Rubin Kazan, Uralan Elista, Mosca, Krylya Sovetov Samara, CSKAEnglish “Hull” and Dutch “Vitesse”. Together with CSKA the specialist became champion of Russia three times, won the Russian Cup and the Super Cup twice.
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