Former head of Moscow “Torpedo” Ilya Gerkus said that he considers the decision of the capital club to refuse to sign a contract with striker Artem Dzyuba as fatal.
“In our case, Dziuba was the best solution. Not so fast anymore, but high quality, stubborn, it makes sense to play together. I believed in Dziuba. The answer was heavy reflection and the words: “Dzyuba is not our way out.” This was at the beginning of January. it happened.
A fatal decision, we are destined to remember it for a very long time, ”Herkus said in an interview. “Match TV”.
Dzyuba started this season with Turkish club Adana Demirspor, whose contract he terminated a few months later. After returning to his hometown as a free agent, the footballer negotiated for a long time with the Russian Premier League (RPL) clubs, which the media referred to as Torpedo and Paris Nizhny Novgorod. In early February, the striker signed a contract with Lokomotiv until the end of the 2022/23 season.
In the 18th round match of the RPL between Rostov and Lokomotiv, Dzyuba scored a hat-trick and helped his team win with a score of 3:1.
Earlier, the ex-owner of Spartak Leonid Fedun, his wife Zarema Salikhova, discretion The conflict between Rostov and Lokomotiv in terms of the struggle between Artem Dzyuba and Valery Karpin.