Hello from Moscow, Hull City supporters. Best wishes of good luck and fast promotion back to Premier Division! You got amazing and loyal head coach who did his best for CSKA Moscow during several last years almost without any transfers against teams with crazy budgets like Zenit. Leonid Slutskiy is unknown superstar coach without any serious weakness points. I'm sure that he can build great team with some transfers, also he's able to give your young players first team experience too and help their development. Sorry for my broken English
Thanks for the useful input, and good English too. Good point about developing young players and giving them first team experience. This was one of the factors that impressed me about Slutsky in reading his background a few pages back. He has great experience working with young players from the beginning of his coaching career and has clearly had a great rapport with them. We have currently a very good squad of young players, some of whom may be ready to get Championship experience, and Leonid could be just the type of Manager to bring them up to the next level. Very encouraging prospect.
He had zero salary when he came to us, he had been unemployed since leaving the Russia national team last summer.
Yes, but whilst in the U.K. He also had offers to go back to coach in Russia. I like the fact he seems quite single minded on where he wants to coach.
Must admit, with the stress/fascination of the GE and its fallout, I've barely had time to consider Slutsky and his appointment. The small amount I've read so far seems really positive. Big thanks to our new Russian correspondents: shgleb94 and Rock'n'Roll - your input has been really interesting and your written English is very good.
Thanks to all for sweet lies and likes! I will share one more thought about Slutskiy style: he's trying to teach his players additional roles on the pitch. For example: wing backs are playing on different sides (left or right), attacking midfielders are playing defence midfielders, winger became forward and so on. A lot of CSKA players have learned new specialities under his guidance (they had no choice). Those experiments were forced by micro roster and low budget in CSKA, but anyway Leonid was forced to survive and look for hidden possibilities. He's not stubborn about player positions.
I see that Leonid is originally from Volgograd (Stalingrad). It has a big river, just like Hull, but I don't think there are any statues here that compete with this one. The Motherland Calls is almost twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. They think big in Volgograd - hopefully, Leonid is thinking big things for the Tigers
