Yep, he was in France liking the Sunderland links on Twitter
Let's not give Kazan too much credit here, Football in that part of the world is corrupt and in complete mess, in between the racism and player extortion and corrupt betting rings there's the boarder conflicts with the Ukraine. Is it any wonder players a jumping ship and lacking effort left right and centre? Lens stated publicly that he feared for his familly's safety. Not defending Yann, but somebody who's already a temperamental 'bad boy' is guaranteed to go mental over there.
Then why go there in the first place? It's not a new thing that Russia is a corrupt **** hole.
The Kazan president saying he missed training was years ago by the way, nothing recent that I know of, why would he train with them? Kazan president called him a £9m flop who already thought he was a Liverpool player but he couldn't get on their bench... or something along those lines.
Mancini ripped him to shreds after a game as well. I was genuinely disappointed reading it, he was one of my favourite players a few years ago, I would have been devastated if Arsenal signed him.
Like you say, it's not a huge risk, it's a wage and an agents fee no doubt and if it goes sour I'd imagine there's a clause for you to pull the plug.


