Carlos has himself retired from playing now though, to become the new director of football at Anzhi, and dedicate all of his time to searching around the world for players who are suitable to recruit. The now 31 year old surprised the whole of Europe when making a big money transfer from Italian giants Internazionale to Anzhi in August , but as soon as his contract details were revealed, everyone quickly realised why he made the move — which at first glance appeared strange.
Every year the Cameroonian gets paid a tasty 20 million euros making him, reportedly, the highest paid player in the world today. After scoring on his debut against Rostov na Donu in a draw, he soon became the goal machine that he was at Barcelona in particular, scoring goal after goal and being the main cog in the Anzhi machine which powered its way towards European football. Their ruthless approach in the transfer market has only angered all Russian fans, who find it hard to comprehend how such a small club became such a major club practically overnight.
Finishing 5th last term and claiming a place in the Europa League was declared a success, and rightly so — but a similar finish come next May, and it would be pronounced as a resounding failure. So far this season the team has only lost 3 games, 2 in the Premier League and 1 in the Europa League, and appear to be going only from strength to strength. It will soon become clear however, if the team will suffer from tiredness as a result of playing in European games during the week with normal league games at the weekend.
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July 28, July 27, Load More. Next Post. The difference between Kerimov and Chelsea's owner is that only two years in to his project to transform the North Caucasus into a new hub of world football, the former became bored with the idea last summer.
Unfortunately this change of heart coincided with a blip in his business fortunes and the upshot is that Anzhi are bottom of Russia's Premier League, without a win all season. They travel to Tottenham Hotspur on Europa League duty as very much a poor man's version of the rising force which, during the past two seasons, promised so much under Guus Hiddink's stewardship. Another veteran occupies the manager's chair these days but Gadzhi Gadzhiyev, a year-old one-time assistant coach of the old USSR team, has a rather less glittering CV than Hiddink.
With a similar downsizing exercise having taken place among a playing staff which once featured the likes of Roberto Carlos, Samuel Eto'o and Lassana Diarra, Anzhi — only founded in — are well back down the road to anonymity. When he purchased his three private planes and two yachts a certain status was assured, but Anzhi's owner was learning that it takes more than money alone to secure a place at football's top table. By the time Hiddink resigned in July, Kerimov was already scaling back appreciably but his disillusionment grew when he felt impelled to sack the replacement manager, Rene Meulensteen, the former Manchester United coach now in charge of Fulham, after only 16 days.
Meulensteen's crime? One theory is he allowed a long-running dispute involving Eto'o and Igor Denisov, Russia's notoriously bolshy captain, to fester.
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