Famous former Russian striker Dmitry Bulykin, who played for Belgium’s Anderlecht, German Fortuna and Bayer teams in Europe, as well as ADO Den Hag, Twente and Ajax teams in the Netherlands, stated in his comment to Gazeta that local players do not play football. They left Russian Premier League clubs due to unreasonably high salaries.
“First of all, our salaries are such that in other similar leagues, even in the best clubs, salaries are paid three times less. Therefore, of course, no one will go anywhere. Second, they won’t take half. Thirdly, there is a limit that does not allow strong foreign football players to enter the Russian championship. Therefore, if we reduce salaries during our championship, this will, on the contrary, benefit football. But of course this is not in the interest of different people who are getting money around, but they do not care about Russian football itself,” Bulykin said.
Valery Karpin, the head coach of the Russian national team, told reporters after the away draw with Qatar that he advised all his players to leave the Russian championship as soon as the opportunity arises to move to a foreign club.
Valery Karpin, formerly the head coach of the Russian national team accused That’s “carelessly”.