MOSCOW, Sep 29, Alena Sulizova. Football agent Alexei Safonov, commenting on the appointment Paul Ashworth for the position of sports director of the Moscow «Spartak», said that a good Englishman would not have gone to Russia. than my own. To be honest, I think people like (Egor) Titov, (Dmitry) Alenichev, (Andrey) Tikhonov are probably no worse at football. (Luc) Cattani, okay, I understand, he came from » PSG», and I had the honor to communicate with him, I liked his philosophy. He realized that now foreigners would not particularly come to us, and therefore decided that if the focus was on Russian players, then Russia would be better dealt with. Probably, the way he (Ashworth) loves money, no one loves it,» Safonov said. «I myself am a little surprised. There were questions about Kazakhstan, the fate other cases, in Latvia as well, and in «Rostov». These are some, it seems to me, agency games. Such a negative bag follows him. Still, Spartak is a serious team, there is a security service, so I myself have questions, I was surprised by this appointment, «he added. The agent drew parallels with the situation in Lokomotiv Moscow.» that he will increase the number of scouts who will work separately with those who are on loan. To me, this from the side is somewhat reminiscent of the fairy tale “Locomotive” — what is happening now. You know, there is a joke when they ask if a woman can make a man a millionaire. Maybe only on the condition that he had previously been a billionaire. It's the same here,» Safonov summed up.
