http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Yuri-Zhirkov-c37683 has hailed the Brazilian International to join the Russian Premier League club after snubbing Chelsea FC and has lamented Christopher Samba’s departure
Anzhi Makhachkala continued with their big spending habit after splashing out 35 million Euros to sign http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Willian-c36898 from Shakhtar Donetsk. The Brazilian International signed a three-year contract at Dynamo stadium (Makhachkala) yesterday.
The Russian Premier League club defeated English Premier League club, Chelsea FC, in the race to steal the 24-year-old player signatures who arguably is in top form having already scored two goals in 14 Ukrainian Premier League
appearances so far this season.
If speculations are to be believed, the Blues were reluctant to pay over 20 million Euros for the prolific winger, having watched him in action in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League.
Willian was arguably the star of the show when Shakhtar played http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 in the group stage of the cup competition as he twice levelled up the score by scoring in each half of the European clash at Stamford Bridge.
However, he could not save his team from a defeat after http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Victor-Moses-c36075 scored an injury-time winner.
Anzhi have now made Willian their third big signing this winter, having already signed Andrey Yeshchenko and Ricardo Centurion from Lokomotiv Moscow and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Racing-Club-c40301 respectively.
The fact that Willian denied a chance to go to Stamford Bridge gives Yuri Zhirkov a reason to cheer, who believes that the reputation of the Russian outfit paid off beautifully.
Zhirkov went on to recognize Willian as a top talent and assured the fans of a quality buy. However he expected the talented winger to take time to settle at his new club.
“We once played in training camp against the Miner. Shakhtar are a strong club and Willian is a very strong player. This is evident by the fact that Chelsea wanted to buy him along with some other big teams and it gives pleasing
affect to the ears that he joined Anzhi.” The UEFA Cup winner was quoted as saying.
Speaking on Christopher Samba’s departure to Queen Park http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rangers-c40314, Zhirkov revealed that he was not expecting the Congolese International to leave too early.
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