- Alexei, tell me honestly, are you leaving for Spartak?
- Honestly? Well no.
“Staying in the club?”
- I can’t say anything about my possible transition.
- Is it possible that you will leave Saturn before the start of the next championship?
- I do not want to comment on this.
- Already something. Do you have more positive or negative emotions from the first season in Russia?
“Well, so ... Fine, of course.” We have a new team. Only here is the eleventh place. This is ... you know ...
- ... Was it a blow to you?
- A little bit, yes. We could finish on the fifth, and finished on the eleventh. So that…
- Will you perform better next season?
- Yes, we will have the same composition, the same coach. And we ... of course ...
- ... You will fight for something serious.
- Yes, we will fight for something serious.
- You began to speak Russian much better than at the beginning of the year.
“Well, yes, I've been here for eight months.” Before that I forgot a little ...
- They say you read poorly and wrote in Russian.
- Yes, he could neither read nor write.
- And now?
- I still do not know how to write, but I read better.
- And what are your impressions of the homeland?
- Uh ... So far, only one plus. There are no cons.
- A match in the championship match? Judicial scandals ...
- Well, yes ... This is - yes. But Saturn is a clean team. Most importantly, we play cleanly.
- In Russia, it’s dirty on the streets, a completely different mentality.
“But I'm still Russian.” It doesn’t matter to me.
“And are you used to the weather?”
- I lived in Finland before.
- And they played in Italy ...
- Yes, he played in Italy. The weather is yes. But still, I'm used to this weather. Fine.
- For you, “Saturn” is a club with which you can win something in your career, or a transfer point in front of a stronger team?
- Here you can achieve, I think. Here you can achieve.
- Tell us about your coach Vladimir Weiss. He became the opening of the championship. What does this specialist take? You showed good football ...
- Fart was not there. It didn’t. Even in the last game it was visible ... So many moments, but the ball does not enter ...
“So what is Weiss's merit?”
- He understands. He knows that we are not robots, but people. And he always knows when to scream, and when to speak in a good way.
- Trainers of the Soviet school like to morally press players. What about the Slovak?
- Slovak - no. He just knows when to and when not.
- Is it really not swearing in the locker room?
“Ho ho ... Everything happens, yes.”
- And swears in Russian?
- Both in Russian and in Slovak.
- The best player in the country according to the results of a survey of players was Andrey Arshavin. Do you agree with that?
- Yes.
- He is called a player of the European level ...
- I do not know. To do this, he needs to play in Europe. But in Russia he is the best. That is yes.
- You played in a strong Italian championship. Are there many good players here?
- There are such.
- Who?
- Wagner Love likes it.
- He's Brazilian. And from the Russians?
- I don’t remember them now, but there are such players.
Alexey Shevchenko