Rubin is restless: Slutsky exiled Despotovich and Ignatiev to the reserve team (both will leave) and removed the video analyst due to the conflict

The first half of the season for Rubin did not go as well as expected. Slutsky’s team went into the winter break in 10th place, having won only 2 wins in the last 11 matches, and did not qualify for the Conference League – they lost to the Polish Rakow.

Training camp – excellent moment to reboot, but not everything is great in the team.

Slutsky has problems with Despotovich – he has already announced his departure

Forward George Despotovich, who before the start of the season was considered a key member of Slutsky’s team, unexpectedly announced his departure from the club.

“As you all already know, I will no longer play for the Rubin football club. I want to thank everyone for the very beautiful time I spent in Kazan. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart! ”

“Rubin” does not confirm anything . According to the deputy editor-in-chief of “SE” Maxim Allanazarov , the player was sent to the double after systematic conflicts with the head coach Leonid Slutsky.

The global claim to the player is injury and long recovery (missed 3 months due to various injuries). The source writes that it came to mutual distrust: the medical staff recommended Despotovich to return to full-fledged training, and the football player refused and asked for more time to recover. This angered Slutsky, who several times reproached the football player for poor dedication – for example, after the match with Dynamo (0:2) in the first round. At the training camp, the conflict continued – the coach and Despotovich did not talk, and after the freight train with Fakel it flared up again – the same claims for dedication. The result is a link to the duplicate.

Andrey Pankov from the “Championship” believes that there is more one reason (although, perhaps, they are interconnected): Rubin was trying to make room for the legionnaire and find a new team for Despotovich – Leonid Slutsky even offered the services of his own agent, Christian Emile.

“Argumentation was the following – Emile will help you quickly find a club where you can play. The despot refused. And this was one of the reasons for the final transfer to the double, ”added the insider.

Christian Emile was next to almost all the Slutsky clubs.

• Emile collaborated with Hull: participated in the transfers of Fraser Campbell , Nua Diko and Jackson Irvine when Leo worked in England. What the agent reported on his instagram.

• The same Nua Diko moved to Slutsky’s Vitesse. Another visit to the Dutch club was Ussama Darfalu – also with the assistance of Emil. And Emile also handles the affairs of Fyodor Chalov.

• There are already significantly more Christian clients in Rubin: Hwang In Beom, Mitsuki Saito , Oliver Abilgor. Emile also participated in the transfer of Karl Starfelt from Kazan to Celtic.

And that’s not it. Rubin lost Ivan Ignatiev

According to SE, forward Ivan Ignatiev is rented by Krylya Sovetov – apparently, there he will become a replacement for the one who left for Zenit » Ivan Sergeev. Rubin (or Slutsky) probably also has problems with Ignatiev – the player was also sent to reserve.

matches in the RPL and 1 goal) and Vitaly Lisakovich, who moved from Loko (15 matches, 2 goals).

But this is not all conflicts – Slutsky fired analytics (perhaps because of a joke)

January 20 channel “Insider” reported that analyst Nikita Vasyukhin was leaving the Kazan club due to a damaged relationship with the head coach.

“The coach, as usual, played a trick on Vasyukhin. As you know, Slutsky loves to defuse the atmosphere with humor, sometimes even harsh. However, Vasyukhin did not appreciate the joke and hinted to Slutsky that he might be fired in December. Here Vasyukhin was removed until the real conflict broke out, ”the insiders write.

neither Vasyukhin spoke on this topic.