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Despite the assurances, the resignation of the head coach of Spartak is inexorably approaching

Oleg Kononova with the mouth of Leonid Fedun extended the credit of trust "at least until December." Typically, such assurances signal the close resignation, and the fact that this can happen already in the nearest round after the match with Ufa cannot be completely excluded.

As Spartak with Kononov, as soon as possible, reached such a life, no one knows for certain. It seems that yesterday experts excitedly praised the red and white, and even such a venerable Spartakovets as Evgeny Lovchev, obeyed that he had buried his native club early. Apparently, sympathetic was so staring in the results that even local success was adopted for the long-awaited breakthrough: it turns out that new and old Spartaks flee, pressing, playing with fire in their eyes, to swing to the Europa League, not to mention the championship in the Premier League. Shürrle is a handsome man, Til - Revelation, Bakaev - Monster, all acquisitions “to the cashier”, we finally saw a new “Spartak”, even if not the one that Kononov himself, and the leadership, and the nearest environment for a long time. But what's the point of remembering the Beskovo-Romantsevsky lace football when you need to win?!

The music did not play for long. The Portuguese gray “Braga” poured out the chopping water on excessively enthusiastic heads, the head coach, not without grief in his voice, announced that now you can focus on internal tournaments, after which the team, which reassured fans for a couple of weeks, fell.

Everyone who the day before admired the one from where the steady red-white came from, shook his hands. And the “breakthrough” arose from nothing, and the failure too, although the second for the “Spartak” of the last year is much more familiar.

It is worth recalling that all the tasks set by the leadership of the replaced Massimo Carrra Oleg Kononov (the exit in the playoffs of the Europa League, the victory in the Russian Cup, and entering the three prize-winners of the Premier League) were brilliantly and demonstratively in the last season. The explanation of the leadership that the tasks were motivating in nature looked awkwardly and only added irritations of fans of red and white, without that heated and disconnected army. However, they did not hang all the dogs on Kononov - the work is harmful, the pressure is exorbitant, the championship composition has exhausted their potential, and people and people need time and people.

The first and most important “people” was found in the person of the young and ambitious manager Thomas Tsorn, who, after several perturbations in the leadership, took the place of the general director. Having received a carte-blanche from Leonid Fedun, he began to clear the rubble under the new Spartak and seemed to be under Kononov.

The scale struck the imagination, confident explanations aroused respect: the new team is built in European, for the future and to solve the immediate problems.

Renting the author of the Golden Goal at the 2014 Mundial, Andrea Shurrle, became a sensation, the acquisition of a young Dutch midfielder Hus Tilya for more than 15 millions of euros did not particularly surprise anyone, the purchase of the Czech opornik Alex Krail cost ten times more real price (12 million instead of two and a half), but almost 40 million euros spent on transfers were justified. pressing necessity. In the light of the seven acquisitions of parting with Fernando, Ze Louisha and Louis Adrian no longer seemed disastrous: take and the system with full support.

Everyone seemed to have forgotten that Shurrle had never been a system-forming player-rather a forward of the moment, and a career of a 28-year-old football player has long been going down. That the GUS Til and the just replenishing the ranks of Spartak Alex Kraled too young and unstable to take on the burden of leadership. Yes, the first two were fuel in a couple of matches, but they were surprisingly quickly blown away.

But the main thing is not this. Even a short moment of revelation did not clarify anything in Oleg Kononov’s game concept. The recruits, including Zelimkhan Bakayev, successfully played “from themselves”, on Fresh, and if this, coupled with the appearance of a new scorer in the face of the central defender Samuel Gigo, was accepted for the beginnings of a new style, then the experts were brutally mistaken.

Getting rid of the burden of the Europa League, the red and white sadly slid into the usual state of the team, which does not know what to play. Homemade defeat from Zenit was disappointing, but it did not look completely hopeless. Then there was a big break for the matches of the national teams, during which Kononov had every opportunity to bring the team to life.

We saw the fruits of this work in a home meeting with the Urals, which this season does not shine at all. In the first half, the hosts still somehow kept the style, and Zhigo habitually scored the fourth goal.

After a break, having obviously received the correct instructions from the coach, Spartak in its optimal composition, with all the star recruits, appeared to be a collapsed and helpless team.

He was still lucky that the Urals, who did everything he wanted, scored only twice. The spectacle was so sad that only the lazy did not ask a rhetorical question: what did the head coach do during the break, does Kononov know how to build a team, and how long this process will last?

The next day, the club’s leadership met with the owners of the subscriptions, and in the spirit of Andersen’s fairy tale about the new dress of the king, one young fan asked why Carrera fired for three defeats, and Kononov was left. Maltz and all those present explained that when victories come with Kononov, everyone would be satisfied.

This style is not a Spartak game, but explanations and explanations. The same Thomas Tsorn in a lengthy interview on the shelves laid out almost every transfer, goal -setting, and prospects. In the presentation of a young, and early specialist, the confidence of the businessman and manager was felt, but by no means the wisdom of the leader who was brewing in the football boiler.

This confidence contrasted so sharply with the current game of red and white that it seemed that it was about different teams.

After the Ural slap, a message flashed that Kononov, having not worked for a year, asked for a resignation, but this was immediately refuted. No, he didn’t give, not going, the trust is complete. At least until December.

Spartak has a completely comfortable schedule for games to the winter break, overstrain does not threaten the departure from the Europa League, but something like this was already in the spring, when a sparing, it would seem, a schedule without top-ropens instead of the struggle for the championship turned into a dull failure. The current “Spartak” is scored by everyone who is not lazy, and from time to time after the same mistakes. And it turns out that there is no one to score, except for the defender Gigo.

All over Oleg Georgievich Kononov, a good person and, apparently, a good specialist, to suffer in Spartak does not remain long. It is no coincidence that the well -known surnames of the replacement have long come up in the Culuar conversations - and Kurban Berdyev, and even Stanislav Cherchesov, who will allegedly allow two positions and who, finally, will put things in order in the permanently disassembled football economy of Fedun. It is obvious to part with the Kononov owner of the club, but, obviously, it will have to.

If something extraordinary does not happen-for example, Oleg Georgievich will remove the notorious jacket (the coach’s elegance is definitely not in honor), will put his sleeves and finally demonstrate the game, which he wants from the players. At worst, replacing the style from soft to hard, will give the team a good kick than to raise the spirit of its disassembled motley army. The latter does not look like Kononov, but he probably does not have another way out.