- I immediately know four Premier League clubs that have applied to Torpedo with an offer about your transfer. Does this mean that before the start of the championship you will leave the club?
- The issue has not yet been resolved. And where I start the season does not depend on me, but only on Vladimir Vladimirovich Aleshin. If he could decide something, he would have gone to the Premier League club before the training camp. But I have only one right: to agree or refuse to go to the club, with which the owner of Torpedo will nevertheless agree. By the way, your information is incomplete. My name is not four Premier League clubs, but more.
- Yah? And how much?
- I will not say. But more than four. And some set very high goals. That's where I want to go. One of them even plans to enter the Champions League.
- If you are about the “Locomotive”, then for me this is not news.
- No, not about the “Locomotive”. Here I go, then you will find out.
- It turns out that Aleshin does not allow you to return to the Premier League, despite a lot of options?
- That's right. I explain that I am 29 years old, that at this age a player of my role has the heyday and it is worth losing a year in the first division. In the offseason, not only I asked to leave the “Torpedo” in the Premier League club. But Aleshin did not meet anyone.
- Once you have already received a call to the national team. Perhaps playing in the elite is also important for Hiddink to notice you?
- In the national team, I was not once, but twice. Once he even came on as a substitute in a match with Spain. And the first time - even with Semin - traveled with the team to Latvia. Tourist. Yuri Pavlovich invited me to prepare, but did not include me in the application. He sat on the podium with his teammate Dima Borodin, who also did not get on the bench. And of course I want to be in the Hiddink team. I am talking about this with our superiors. But Aleshin, along with head coach Georgy Yartsev, assures that the way to the national team from the first division is open for everyone. But I, of course, do not believe them ...
- By the way, your role as an opornik for the national team is rather scarce.
- Thats exactly what I mean! Here list me good defensive midfielders with Russian citizenship. One, two and miscalculated. Aldonin. Smertin, but they’re not calling him now. Semshov, who retrained as an opornik, although his whole life was an attacking midfielder. And that’s all! And I'm an opornik from the first league.
- I still think of Igonin from Saturn, Yanotovsky from Tomi ...
“But Hiddink did not take them into the national team.” He generally calls, as a rule, players from leading clubs. Or those who are by ear. I don’t know, maybe some club interests or the influence of agents are affecting. Or maybe he listens carefully to the assistants ... That's why I want to get into the team that will fight for high places. The way to the national team - from there.
- Do you remember your only way out in the form of the national team for fifteen minutes?
- For life. I ran out onto the field, stopped, looked to the left - bang! - Raul stands, right - Michel Salgado. Well, I think I got ... I even wanted to take a picture with them after the match as a keepsake, but I forgot the soap box at the hotel. He probably played tolerantly, kept a goalless draw.
- Leave - and who will play Torpedo instead of you?
- There is a double guy in my position. By the name of Filimonov. Looked great at the training camp - let him play instead of me.
- Do the players regret that Angela Biryukova quit the club? After all, she was not only a decoration of the club, but also the only woman in the league - a press attache.
- How did you quit? Who told you?
“But the club now has a different press officer.” Is not it so?
“Don't worry, Angela stayed with us.” Here is the story: another person replaced her position in the club. But she is still the press attache of the Luzhniki sports complex. And sits at the same workplace, in the office at the stadium.
Anton OTKIDACH