Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergei Stepashin compared the purchase of expensive players by the Anzhi football club from Makhachkala to a feast during the plague. Stepashin recalled that Dagestan is a subsidized region where there are many difficulties with education, medicine and children's sports, reports Soviet Sport .

Before the start of the 2011/12 season, Suleiman Kerimov became the owner of Anzhi , and the club made several acquisitions, the most high-profile of which was the transfer of the 2002 world champion, Brazilian Roberto Carlos . Recently, the Makhachkala club bought Hungarian national team midfielder Balazs Dzsudzsak from the Dutch PSV.

Stepashin believes that private football clubs are an expensive pastime for rich people for a short time: “I twirled it in my hands and threw it away, I found a new joy.”

Stepashin, who has long been the head of the supervisory board of the Moscow football club Dynamo, added that the club must first earn money and then spend: “We must learn to live according to the laws of a civilized market, otherwise you and your circus will not be allowed out of Russian territory. You will.” entertain yourself here."

At the end of last week, Anji head coach Gadzhi Gadzhiev said that in the summer off-season of 2011 the club intends to acquire three more players. According to Gadzhiev, all positions require fortification.

Anji's purchases were compared to a feast during the plague