Yuri Nagornykh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Moscow “Locomotive”, answered the question about the possible extension of the contract with striker Artem Dzyuba.
Artem is definitely one of the best players in Russia. We agreed with him that after the end of the championship we will discuss all our further actions with him, ”explains Nagornykh. “Sport Express”.
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 RPL clubs, which the media referred to as Torpedo and Paris Nizhny Novgorod. As a result, he signed a contract with Lokomotiv Moscow.
Dzyuba scored a hat-trick in the first match against Rostov for a new club in the Russian Premier League (RPL). In the next round, the striker tried on the captain’s armband – due to the exclusion of Stanislav Magkeev in the match with Akhmat, Dziuba was forced to take up the duties of the captain.
Former Russian coach Igor Shalimov commented The match of Moscow Lokomotiv’s striker Artem Dziuba in the match against Rostov.