St. Petersburg, July 21, Sergey Yaremenko. Midfielder Kirill Kravtsov will leave St. Petersburg “Zenith”, if the situation with the Brazilian Wendel is resolved safely, Andrei Arshavin, deputy general director of “Zenith” for sports development, said in an interview. Earlier, information appeared in the Brazilian media that Wendel could suspend the contract with Zenit and go to Flamengo «. According to O Dia, on Friday, the footballer's representatives held a meeting with the leadership of Zenit, following which the parties agreed to extend the agreement on improved terms. Agent Andrey Talaev previously reported that Kravtsov is close to moving to Sochi. «In terms of position, Kravtsov is not Wendel, but Kirill is a strong football player. I think he will play in the Russian national team. In his year he has already played for the national team. I think now he'd better leave Zenit. He would have left if it weren't for the situation with Wendel. If everything goes well, Kravtsov will leave,» Arshavin said. «It seems to me that now there are guys who can get into the Zenith base directly «Kirill Kravtsov almost did it. True, he also had to go to Nizhny Novgorod for six months to see Sasha Kerzhakov. I'm going to torture Sergei Bogdanovich (Semak) so that one or two players go straight from the academy to the base,» Arshavin said. Read the full interview with Andrei Arshavin on Thursday at rsport.ria.ru.
