Football clubs “Krasnodar” and “Sochi” are preparing for the new season; “citizens” continue to send their pupils to other clubs; Bars have already played two friendly matches

Alonso can’t decide

After the summer vacation, the Bulls began training on July 2. While part of the team is participating in the collection. International players will join the team at a later date. Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov, who returned from Hapoel, where he played on loan, was seen at training. The club has not yet commented on the further fate of its pupil, but, according to media reports, it is highly likely that he will leave the club. The alleged transition option is the same Hapoel.

The entire pre-season training of the “citizens” will take place in Adygea, at the club base “Chetuk”. The press service announced that the Black-and-Greens will play three friendly matches: on July 8, with Chernomorets Novorossiysk, which secured promotion to the first league last season, on July 11, with Krasnodar Kuban, which retained its “registration” in the second-class league ”, July fifteenth – from Sochi.

Continues to receive information about the transfers of Krasnodar. The Bulls signed an agreement with defender Alexander Ektov. The player has successfully passed the medical examination, all the formalities have been settled. The contract will be valid until June 30, 2026. According to media reports, the “bulls” paid seventy million rubles for the transfer of Ektov.

The defender began his career in the youth team of CSKA. He also played for Olimp-Dolgoprudny and Shinnik. In 2020, the footballer moved to Orenburg. Two years later, together with the team, he entered the Premier League. For “Orenburg” Ektov played a hundred matches and scored eight goals.

“Krasnodar” continue to leave the pupils of the club. The other day, the club reported that they had agreed with Torpedo all the details of the transfer of Sergei Borodin. Now the defender of the Russian national team will continue his career in Moscow. True, the “bulls” have the option of buying back the player. Borodin played sixteen matches for the Citizens’ main team and scored one goal. In September 2022, he made his debut in the main team of the Russian national team, taking part in a friendly match against the national team of Kyrgyzstan.

It became known that the midfielder of the “bulls” Grzegorz Krychowiak officially terminated the contract with the club. In this off-season, the footballer was supposed to return to Russia and play for the “bulls” one more season. The agreement was calculated until the summer of 2024.

The former captain and leader of Krasnodar agreed to an early termination of the contract with the “townspeople”, since in this case he would be able to return to the Polish national team. While he had an agreement with the Russian team, the path to the national team was closed to him. According to media reports, at the moment the player is in talks with clubs from Europe and Saudi Arabia, his future should become clear in the near future.

Krychowiak, after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, along with other Krasnodar legionnaires, left the club. The footballer moved to the Greek AEK, for which he played from March to May 2022. In the summer, Krychowiak took advantage of the right to leave the Bulls and moved on loan to Al-Shabab in Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the loan agreement, the Pole was supposed to return to Krasnodar in the summer of 2023. For the Bulls, the Pole managed to play only fifteen matches and score four goals. The media reported that it was Krychowiak, being the captain of Krasnodar, who persuaded all the club’s legionnaires to suspend contracts with the “citizens” after the start of the conflict in Ukraine. Although a number of players later denied this.

There are still rumors in the media about the departure of Paraguayan defender Junior Alonso from the team. Allegedly, the footballer still wants to leave the club, citing family circumstances. Alonso had previously stated that he would change the team, but his agent Diego Serrati later denied this information, saying that the player will remain in the camp of the bulls for next season and he has a valid contract with the townspeople. His spokesman continues to deny all rumors of a departure.

As a possible replacement for the thirty-year-old Paraguayan, the defender of the Greek PAOK Sverrir Ingason, who has previously played in the Russian championship for Rostov, is being considered. The Icelander scored three goals in 36 games for PAOK last season. Now the cost of a football player is four million euros. Alonso is valued at seven million euros.

Drkusic interested in Turkey

Sochi played the second test match at the summer training camp. The youth team of the club became the rival of Dmitry Khokhlov’s team. In the starting lineup for the main team came out: Denis Adamov in goal, Ivan Miladinovich, Igor Yurganov and Vyacheslav Litvinov acted in defense. Along the edges – Artem Makarchuk and Yuri Medvedev. In the middle – Victorien Angban, Christian Noboa, Martin Kramaric. On the edge – Artur Yusupov and Ivan Ignatiev.

The youth was able to organize the first dangerous moment, but the striker lacked accuracy. In the first half, the young Sochi players “snarled” quite well, tried to put pressure and went on the attack well, creating a couple of scoring chances. But Adamov stood at the gate securely. The base players, taking the ball under their control, attacked with flanks. Actively behaved on the field Makarchuk and Medvedev. In the middle of the half, Kramaric shot into an empty net, the defender of the “youth team” took the ball off the ribbon. At the 32nd minute, Ignatiev had a super moment. After Makarchuk’s cross, the striker was supposed to open the scoring in the game, but the youth goalkeeper made a great save. The first half ended with no goals scored.

In the second half, the composition completely changed. The place in the frame was taken by Nikolai Zabolotny. Defense line – Vyacheslav Litvinov, Artem Meshchaninov and Moussa Sissako. Edge – Kirill Zaika, Timofey Margasov. In the middle of the field – Amir Batyrev, Timofey Shipunov, Kirill Kravtsov. At the forefront of the attack are Nikita Burmistrov and Georgy Melkadze. For the youth in the second half came the base players Anatoly Nemchenko and Yegor Totsky, who added spice to the attack.

Burmistrov could have scored a goal right away, but he lacked accuracy. In the sixtieth minute, Marcelo Alves came out to play for Sochi. The Brazilian took his usual place in the middle of the defense. Immediately after a quick counterattack, Zabolotny saved the base of the “leopards”. At the end of the match, the goal was still scored. After a pass from Luka Djorzhevich, who came out instead of Melkadze, Kravtsov shot into the right corner from the goalkeeper of the “youth team” – 1: 0. This ended the first camp of the “resorters”.

After two days off, they also continued to train in Adler. Khokhlov’s team will play the next friendly match against Leningradets on July 6th. Then on the tenth of July there will be a friendly game with the Gelendzhik “Vista”. Both meetings will be held for Sochi residents at home. At the end of the camp, on the fifteenth of July, an away game against Krasnodar will take place.

“Kurortnikov” left Vladislav Sarveli. The striker signed a three-year contract with Lokomotiv Moscow. Both clubs have already announced the transfer of the 25-year-old striker. For Sochi, the forward spent the past season. On account of his 32 matches, five goals and one assist.

Meanwhile, the Turkish media reported that defender Vanja Drkusic wants to leave Sochi because of the current situation in the world. Interest in the 23-year-old player is shown by Trabzonspor and Besiktas. True, immediately the football agent of the football player Mladen Ratkovitsa said that Drkusic was not going to leave Sochi because of the situation in Russia.

– The information that a football player may be dissatisfied in Russia is not true. Drkusic is one of the best defenders in the Premier League, it’s normal that he attracts the attention of many clubs, said Ratkovitsa.

According to the agent, the defender is happy in Russia, he has no problems. Ratkowitz added that many clubs are really interested in his client, but did not give specific examples.

When Drkusic moved to Sochi, the transfer fee for the defender was one million euros. Now Transfermarkt values ​​him at three million euros. According to the contract, the player will play for Sochi until June 30, 2025. Drkusic is not yet in Sochi. This summer, the defender was called up to the Slovenian national team for the first time. Perhaps his vacation is still going on.