- Have you decided what football the team will play in? Spartak lace? Or will you try to preserve the torpedo style?
- You know, I have not seen any lace for a long time either in Spartak or elsewhere. I liked the way the Torpedo played two years ago. It is important to get that football back. Do not think that I, for example, will put Dmitry Borodin in the attack. But at the first stage it is important to figure out which players we will enter the season with. With whom exactly we have to go through it.
“Don't you know that yet?”
- Today, the first time I saw the players all together. They have a task: to enter the Premier League. But who will remain in the club, who will leave, will need to be decided later. Of course, there will be some changes. Let's say among the legionnaires. In the first division, only three foreigners can be let out on the field.
- Do the leaders remain?
- So far no one has approached and said that he does not want to play in the first division. I fully admit that this could happen. But so far this has not happened.
- But Sergey Kormiltsev will definitely not be?
- He ended the contract. While he will train with the backup team. This is the desire of the football player himself.
- What are your priorities for replenishment? Will you invite players from the first division or guys with experience in the Premier League?
- I think that we will not be allowed to take strong players from the first division. Who wants to strengthen competitors? But, again, it's too early for me to talk about newcomers. I just don’t know what these players are capable of. For example, I want promising young people to prove themselves. If we invite someone, then two or three, no more. But it’s important for me that the players want to play Torpedo. We did not think about sky-high contracts, but strove to play football and solve a serious problem.
- Lubomir Kantonistov recently spent in the double. Are you going to work with him?
- At one time I invited this player to the national team. See how different coaches evaluate players? Let's see how it will work. We will talk with him.
- You had a break in work. This will not be a problem?
“I don't think the pause was too long.” I don’t see any problems to go out with a whistle and conduct a lesson. In addition, during this time I received a coaching license. The old one had no strength; I had to study again.
- You are called an anti-crisis coach who is able to solve the club’s complex problems. Cope this time?
- Someone calls anti-crisis, someone - a fireman. It so happened that both the player and the coach, I came to the team in a difficult time for them. My whole career is stressful. I’m not afraid of work. I do not fear the difficulties that lie ahead. And they will be. After all, the first league is 44 matches, different time zones, climate change. But we are doing a common thing.
Alexey Shevchenko