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Pavlyuchenko was afraid of the suffering of Bystrov
Source: Daily Telegraph
Roman Pavlyuchenko for the first time in the history of Russian football, the player refused to go to the club, fearing the wrath of the fans.The Zenit football club lost a serious strengthening in the person of the striker of the Russian national team Roman Pavlyuchenko because of his own fans. Pavlyuchenko made a statement that he would not go to Zenit because of the enmity between the fans of the St. Petersburg Club and the Moscow Spartak, for which he spoke from January 2003 to August 2008. Now Pavlyuchenko is a football player of the English Tottenham, but the Spartak past does not allow him to sign a contract with Zenit, who has been the main contender for a Russian player for several months.
Roman Pavlyuchenko |
Refusal "Zenith" and "Arsenal"
In the last six months, Roman Pavlyuchenko often does not even fall into an application for Tottenham matches, so the football player is going to leave the team in this winter transfer period. The London Club set up a price of 16 million euros for Pavlyuchenko. Zenit participated most actively in the auction, which for a long time and painstakingly negotiated Tottenham about the details of the transfer and its final amount. Nevertheless, Pavlyuchenko himself made this dialogue meaningless.
Roman Pavlyuchenko |
“The road to the St. Petersburg club is closed to me,” Sport-Express quotes Roman Pavlyuchenko. “This is my personal decision. I can never become my own there, because I played for a long time for Spartak. Knowing the relationship between the Spartak and Zenit fans, I understand that they will never forgive me such a step. The attitude of red and white fans was always expensive for me. That's why I told my agent Oleg Artemov that the option with Zenit can not be considered. I hope that all interested parties will understand me correctly: the transition of Spartak to St. Petersburg is the same as the transfer of the Tottenham player to Arsenal. You can’t do not care about the feelings of fans who loved and supported you. So far, I have no right to say anything about the possible departure from Tottenham. But everyone understands: it is necessary to leave. After all, if you hold me out on the bench for another six months, then the price of striker Pavlyuchenko will fall significantly. And Rednapp is clearly not counting on me now. ”
A bad example
In the 2009/2010 season, Pavlyuchenko, as part of Tottenham, appeared four times on the field in the championship of England, twice in the League Cup and once in the England Cup. In these games, he scored one goal - in the first round of the League Cup against Doncaster Rovers, a club from a championship, the second most important in the England League. The match ended with a devastating victory of Tottenham 5: 1, and Pavlyuchenko scored the last goal in the match in the 69th minute.
The only goal of Roman Pavlyuchenko in the 2009/2010 season as part of Tottenham |
Vladimir Bystrov |
Last summer, Zenit, contrary to the desire of his fans, returned the midfielder Vladimir Bystrov from the Moscow “Spartak”. The Russian national team player, who is a pupil of the Petersburg club, moved to Spartak in 2005 and spent four years there. During this time, quickly several times in the press spoke unflattering about his native club, but last summer he was happy to return there.
Zenit fans arranged promotions at each match of the team with the participation of a football player, refused to count his goals in their personal statistical records, but in response, they scored a lot and helped the Petersburg club win the bronze medals of the 2009 championship.
Londoners are to blame for everything
Gzt .ru last November warned that Zenit fans would be tuned against Pavlyuchenko’s arrival no less than in the case of Svetov . Last year, the leaders of fan organizations of the St. Petersburg team called Pavlyuchenko’s purchase “inappropriate”.
Alexander Dyukov |
The leadership of Zenit ignored the opinion of the fans, but contrary to Pavlyuchenko’s statement, voiced his version of the failure of the negotiations. “The leadership of our club decided to take Roman Pavlyuchenko for rent,” Zenit quotes Alexander Dyukov Guardian . “We wanted to rent a football player for six months with the subsequent right to buy it. Unfortunately, this option was not arranged by Tottenham. Therefore, we refused to purchase this player "