The former Zenit Leningrad midfielder has insisted that the Russian outfit needs to sign decent plays this summer if they are to continue decent domestic run
Zenit St. Petersburg managed to retain the Russian Premier League title for the third time in their history.
The Meshki, meanwhile, reached the UEFA Champions League pre-quarter-finals before they were denied a chance to progress to the quarter-finals of the coveted European tournaments after suffering a 4-3 defeat against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/SL-Benfica-c40542
on aggregate.
Newly appointed chief scout at Petrovsky stadium, Dmitri Barannik, has admitted that the St. Petersburg club has noticeable accomplishments in the past by giving the examples of Russian Cup, Russian Super Cup, UEFA Cup and UEFA
Super Cup.
However, the Russian national believes that the Meshki will find it difficult to continue achieving noticeable results in the Russian top division with the existing squad. He added that the time has come for the Russian giants
to make key changes in their squad.
“Zenit needs to let Luciano Spalletti sign few players to strengthen the existing squad and the bench. The Meshki needs to attract decent players. The new signings will create competition for places in the team which will motivate
the players to step up their performances.” The Soviet Top League winner was quoted as saying.
Barannik has urged Zenit to consider replacing existing members with fresh blood, signing decent player in the upcoming summer transfer window.
If rumours are to be believed, the Meshki are lining up bids for Lokomotiv Moscow’s Dennis Glushakov and Napoli’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ezequiel-Lavezzi-c13073. The St. Petersburg club looks favourites to land Glushakov this summer, having failed to capture
their desired target in January.
Media reports suggest that Zenit are ready to let go of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleksandr-Bukharov-c4555 after the trio failed to impress this season. The aforementioned strikers have contributed just 18 goals this season.
Besides from the striking problems, Zenit needs to replace the dead wood as well. Barannik has urged the Bomzhi to reduce the average age of the squad and gave examples of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Konstantin-Zyryanov-c21312.
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