On which they put red and white

The sight of a neat and thoughtful transfer campaign is obvious - the championship this season

The leadership of the football “Spartak” decided that it was time to take “gold” - now or never. Otherwise, red-white, like their main competitors, would behave in the winter transfer market much more modest. Spartak has few acquisitions, but the qualitative level will be perhaps higher than even Zenit. True, all this is still on paper

The most long-awaited recruits, midfielder of the Russian national team Alexander Samedov and ex-former Brazilian team Luis Adrian, were signed in a day or two until the first training camp was sent. One might even think that later return from vacation was associated precisely with the expectation of star newcomers, but this, of course, is not the case.

Adrian "Spartak" led as if from the time of the transition of the Brazilian from Shakhtar to Milan, that is, almost a year and a half. The epic with the return of his pupil Samedov from Lokomotiv also began not yesterday. Why the management of the “people's team” and its current head coach of Massimo Carrera rested precisely on these players, explained everyone who is not too lazy - except for the leadership of the club itself. The general place was the following: Spartak does not have enough variability in the attacking line, Samedov will add a creativity to her, and Adrian - relics and effectiveness.

Alexander Samedov was fully able to prove himself in his native Spartak only under Nevio Scale, and over the next 12 years he was noted in all metropolitan clubs except CSKA: in Lokomotiv, Moscow Dynamo, and again in Lokomotiv. He was not a burden, but also to the position of indispensable, including in the Russian team, he did not reach. In the national team, perhaps, perhaps, only this fall, but against the backdrop of the experiments of the new head coach Stanislav Cherchesov, it was enough to look a little more hunting for the game than partners. As an extremely active player of the right edge, which has a good jerk and the ability to make sighted crosses, Samedov can really be useful to Spartak - especially taking into account the fact that the British interest in Queens Promes is about to find real forms. But there is no unconditional confidence that a rather narrow 31-year-old specialist on the move will become one of the red-white leaders.

Even more difficult with Louis Adrian. The “Shakhtar” “Shakhtar” at a very young age, which came to Mirche, became far from a real leader Porto Allegry. For a long time he was “one of”, and in the first Bombardry row made his way, perhaps, at the end of the Donetsk period of the life of the brightest and most titled club of Eastern Europe. Then Adrian spent four matches for the Brazilian national team, which, of course, increased interest in him.

The former Grand of European football “Milan” who needed to update acquired a clogging striker for 8 million euros, but the investments were not justified - in his first season, only four goals were on the account of Adrian, and he spent half of this season on the bench. “Spartak”, however, turned out to be stubborn in his desire to get the once stable 29-year-old scorer, and achieved his own. According to some reports, the transfer amount of 3.5 million euros, the annual salary - up to 4.5 million, which, according to a number of analysts, was suitable for the leader of Shakhtar, but not for the "bench" of the Italian club.

Be that as it may, taking into account the acquisition from the Perm “Amkar”, goalkeeper Alexander Selikhov and defender Georgy Dzhikius, “Spartak” closed almost all problem areas and increased the depth of the composition. That on the decisive segment of the championship of Russia, which starts on March 5, can be very important. Almost for the first time in recent years, the transfer campaign was carried out carefully and with meaning - at least the logic in each acquisition is visible. This is the work “for now”, first of all, to not miss the championship. Which millions of fans of Spartak have already been waiting.

At Zenit, only the transfer of the Frenchman Mollo from the Samara “Wings of the Soviets” can be attributed to relatively stellar acquisitions. CSKA, it seems, is not going to fork out at all. “Krasnodar”, “Rubin”, “Terek” - none of the property is waving their hands, thereby designating the tendency to live in the means. About the rest of the Premier League clubs, including Rostov, and there is no question. Not to fat, I would have been living.

This does not mean at all that the “gold” itself will fall into the “spartak” in his hands. But the claim is indicated and confirmed.