Russian forward Artem Dziuba signed a contract with Adana Demirspor and will continue to play in the Turkish Championship.
“Adana Demirspor” announced that the contract was made under the “1 + 1” plan, although this is a one-year deal, according to socialbites.ca from the player’s entourage.
It was stated that the striker in the Turkish Super League team will receive 1.8 million Euros, while the Russian Premier League club Pari NN rejected the offer made with a salary of 1.5 million Euros and did not accept to continue his career. The First Division, as part of Kazan “Rubin”, with which he worked in the summer, although the club from the capital of Tatarstan offered money “sky high by departmental standards.”
Dziuba has spent the last seven years (with a six-month loan break at Tula Arsenal) in St. Petersburg Zenit and won the national championship four times in a row in recent seasons.
The striker was the top goal scorer, best assistant and best player in the blue-white-blue RPL in the goal + passing system, but did not increasingly enter the starting lineup or change during the 2021/22 season. meetings. As a result, he took part in 28 games, had 11 goals (one from a penalty) and five assists, and averaged just 57 minutes on the field per meeting.
He played worse at Zenit only in the first part of the 2017/18 season, with Roberto Mancini, who did not see the player in the team. As a result, Dziuba was loaned to Tula Arsenal for the second division, he was able to score six times in ten matches, after which he got into the Russian national team for the home world championship, where he managed to ignite and be. For several years he has been the most important football player in the country.
Dzyuba currently shares the title of best scorer in history with Alexander Kerzhakov, with 30 goals in 55 games. But Kerzhakov needed 91 matches for Russia for so many goals.
Dziuba left Zenit as his contract with the club expired at the end of last season and there was no talk of an extension. All summer, the striker was looking for a team that remained in shape with Rubin Kazan, whose coach Leonid Slutsky had an excellent relationship with the player.
Despite the great interest in Russia, the striker himself intended to continue his career abroad, and the main options arose in Turkey, where long-term Zenit partner Magomed Özdoev, who signed a contract with Fatih Karagyumryuk, went before.
Dziuba has been associated with the transition to Istanbul Fenerbahce, one of the most popular clubs in the country, and Istanbul Basaksehir, another metropolitan club. However, in both cases the negotiations ended in nothing.
Negotiations with Adana Demirspor were also not easy – on the day of signing the contract, the player and his representatives spent six hours in the club’s office, but still came to an agreement and all participants in the transaction signed it.
“Finally! I’m happy to join Adana Demirspor! Ready for new challenges, ”the player wrote on his Telegram channel.
The Turkish Super League championship has already started and after two rounds played, the 33-year-old Russian forward’s new team is in the first place in the classification with two wins.
First, a hard 3:2 away win against Giresunspor was won, then the strong Sivasspor was defeated 3-0 at home.
Already on August 22, Adana Demirspor will play away with Fenerbahçe and Dziuba may play his first match at this meeting.
And the Russian striker got into a very solid company. From now on, his teammates will be well-known football players such as Gökhan İnler, who played in the Swiss national team and Serie A clubs for many years, English Leicester, Nigerian Henry Onyekuru, Moroccan famous Moroccan Younes Belhanda. He won the French Championship with Montpellier, the Ukraine Championship with Dinamo Kyiv, the Turkish Championship with Galatasaray, and the famous defender Benjamin Stambouli, who played for PSG.
But the main star of the club remains the colleague of the Italian enfant Dzyuba in the role of Mario Balotelli, who dreams of returning to the Italian national team.
And, of course, we must not forget that the former partner of Artem in Zenit, the Ukrainian defender Yaroslav Rakitsky, has been playing in this club for six months, and his friend will definitely help him adapt to a new country and league.