The captain of Russian national team expected to seriously boost your salary in the camp of the Champions of the country.
In early July, the expired labor contract between CSKA Moscow and 35-year-old captain of Russia Roman Shirokov. Cooperation between the club and the player, most likely, will stop. According to “Izvestia”, the leadership of CSKA was not ready to meet the financial requests Shirokov and advised the player to seek a new team.
— CSKA rejected the idea of extending the contract with Shirokov due to its financial needs, ” said a source familiar with the situation. Roman wanted to make for next season of about €950 thousand army club was ready to offer Shirokov much smaller salary, citing his age and the fact that he is not a team player. For the remainder of last season, the player earned CSKA the order of €200 thousand.
The official representative of Roman Shirokov Arsene Minasov declined to comment on the future of his client.
Former CSKA Moscow midfielder Yevgeny Aldonin finds that Shirokov would be useful to any team Russian Premier League.
— Shirokov has a high skill and experience, and such players are needed in any club, — shared his opinion with the “News” Aldonin. Roman is a player who can score and give an assist. If it is in good shape and not injured, it can benefit any team in the Premier League. How the rest of his career and who will be able to agree, is still unknown. The question is what he wants the novel. If Shirokov still has the wherewithal, the ability and desire to play at a high level, of course, in Russia it will be the team.
Roman Shirokov moved to CSKA in February 2016 free agent status. This became possible after the player terminated the contract with the Moscow “Spartak”. Previously “Izvestia” reported that for early termination of the contract Shirokov received from the red-and-white €900 million, which made up a third of his annual salary in “spartake”.
CSKA captain of the national team was not able to be a team player. During the time spent in the army club, the midfielder took part only in nine matches. However, only one of them Shirokov played the full 90 minutes. In the asset footballer — one goal and one assist in the red t-shirt-blue. However, last season Shirokov of CSKA has reached the final of the Russian Cup and became the champion of the country.
Recently the General Director of CSKA the novel Babayev in interview to “Sport-Express” reported that Roman Shirokov is likely to leave the army club.
Position Shirokov is simple: the novel wants to play, ” says Babayev. — With this in mind, he likely will continue his career at another club. We are grateful to him for the period of time spent in CSKA. Indeed, he has the right to have a permanent place in the squad if he’s healthy. In CSKA it had not fully happened. We have a fairly high level of competition.
Note that Roman Shirokov is a graduate of CSKA Moscow. In 1998-2001, the midfielder played for the second team of the army club. After that the footballer played for such teams as FC torpedo-ZIL”, “Thunderbird”, “Istra”, “Visible”, “Saturn”, “ruby”, “Khimki”, “Zenit” – “Krasnodar” and “Spartak”. Is a three-time national champion, Cup winner and two super cups of Russia, the winner of the Cup and UEFA super Cup. In addition, since 2008, plays for the national team and is currently its captain. During this time spent with the national team 53 matches in which he scored 13 goals and gave the same number of assists. Is the bronze medalist of the European championship-2008.
