Critical days of Moscow "Spartak", or under the thumb
Something wild and scary is happening at Spartak Moscow. And if the cult series X-files had not died, then one of its episodes could have been made dedicated to the “red and whites”. After all, there is an anomaly there, nothing less.
Of course, almost all big football clubs have had difficult - and even terrible - times. And for Spartak they were like that when the club was ruled by a dubious gentleman named Chervichenko. Oh, how the fans hated him! And they waited for him to disappear as quickly as possible.
After Chervichenko, Spartak was acquired by oil dollar billionaire Leonid Fedun. And it seemed like everything started relatively well for the club - then general director Yuri Pervak brought great players: Vidic, Cavenaghi, Alenichev and others. But something went wrong here too. The same Alenichev created a vile scandal...
Hushed up? Okay, but then again, something went completely wrong with Fedunov’s Spartak. And it’s not to say that the owner didn’t invest money, played pranks or completely ignored the club, no. But almost every time it turned out like in that song: “The crocodile can’t be caught, the coconut doesn’t grow...” If it’s a loud transfer, then it’s a minus, like with the Dutchman Guus Thiel. If it’s a coach, then, as a rule, it’s a failure. And independently came to Spartak as the main master Unai Emery or artisan Murat Yakin.
After all, when something worthwhile was planned (silver medals at the championship were won, for example), the general course of development immediately changed. Eternal perestroika is about Fedun’s principle. The champion Spartak was completely destroyed quickly. As if they were afraid of something.
And how can we remember the words of Radimov (with all the ambiguity of this person): “Maybe the owner of Spartak Fedun actually supports Zenit?” Maybe…
As a result, the club logically approached its centenary in the most terrible state: intrigues, showdowns, scandals, dismissals - general confusion and vacillation. So this weekend, the “red-whites” managed to lose at home to the RPL debutant “Nizhny Novgorod”. But what’s worse is the obvious brothel chaos that’s going on inside the club….
The feeling is as if Fedun was tired of “Spartak” and, in order not to suffer, gave it to his companion Zarema Salikhova, known for her modeling business. The kindest thing they say about her is “an expert.” However, Zarema herself spilled a lot about her past in an interview with Sobchak. Look - there will be time.
However, this is not about the past, no, but about the present. A tragicomedy, yes, but Fedun’s companion managed to turn Spartak, already regularly torn apart by intrigues, into something like “Dom-2”. After the departure - in fact, the flight of sports director Popov - everything became even worse. It turned out, for example, that almost all personnel decisions in the team are made by Zarema. Yes, how he accepts it! From recently published correspondence, we learned that she appoints coaches and players, selects them according to... their horoscope. This just seems somewhat implausible, but if you look at the current Spartak, it will become obvious: this is a team with the character of a cantankerous lady.
And then the question arises: what is all this for Fedun? It’s a good question, the main question, but you can only guess the answer. After all, such a shame significantly brings down both the value and prestige of the club. But maybe it’s no coincidence that there have long been rumors that Fedun in Spartak is some kind of sent pest. Or is everything explained even more simply?
There is the nouveau riche, a child of the 90s, who has fun as he wants. And he has a football club, which entertained for a while, and then began to frankly exhaust. But there is no one in particular to sell it to; after all, with very rare exceptions, football teams, and not only those in Russia, exist at the expense of state corporations or local budgets. What about Spartak? Exception. Nouveau riche love to give their companions expensive gifts. Zarema got, perhaps, the fattest. Apparently, she outwitted everyone, and now either they don’t want to stop her, or they can’t.
And this, of course, also has its own sign of the times, the spirit of the times. When the rich, as they say, go crazy with their fat, women crush everything under themselves, women's rebellion has triumphed, and the serfs can only be indignant. In this case, “Spartak” is just a mirror and, I must say, a very necessary one.
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