Luciano Spalletti reveals transfer plans and Zenit St. Petersburg status against Spartak Nalchik
Zenit St. Petersburg head coach, Luciano Spalletti, has spoken about the Bomzhi preparations ahead of the league encounter against Spartak Nalchik, while also shedding some light on the team’s transfer plans.
The Sine-Belo-Golubye only managed to get a point against Spartak earlier this season, when the Orly came from behind to score an injury time equaliser. Spalletti, however, is confident that Zenit will fight to claim the much needed three points in front
of their home crowd.
Spalletti highlighted that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Igor-Denisov-c16694 are most likely to feature at Petrovsky Stadium.
The Coppa Italia winning coach hailed the team performance against Anzhi Makhachkala in their previous league tie. Striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleksandr-Kerzhakov-c4569 scored an absolute stunner to claim their first ever win against Anzhi Makhachkala at Khazar Stadium.
The Italian heaped praise on Kerzhakov’s performance and revealed that the Russian striker will only be joining the training team on Saturday due to some precautionary measures.
The Italian tactician, who won the Russian Premier League and the Russian Cup in his debut season with the club, believes that Zenit need to work very hard in order to retain the Russian Championship title.
The former Udinese boss highlighted that Zenit are currently looking to add some attacking reinforcements in order to bolster the team attack. The Italian national revealed that the Belarusian striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergei-Kornilenko-c32960, and the French centre back, Sebastien
Puygrenier, should find new clubs.
“Zenit will be looking in the transfer market for a defender, a midfielder and an attacker. And some players will be leaving in this transfer window. As for the players who returned from the lease, it is better if Kornilenko and Puygrenier will find a new
team.” The former AS http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 boss was quoted as saying.
Zenit are currently at the second spot on the league table, just a point ahead of Dynamo Moscow and trailing the league leaders, CSKA Moscow, by seven points.
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