Former Dynamo Kyiv defender Oleksandr Golovko told how the transfer to English Brighton, which the media had been writing about for almost the entire winter, may affect Shakhtar Donetsk defender Mykola Matvienko.
"Based on my experience, I will say that some kind of psychological pit will be a hundred percent. If you take my story, I went to Liverpool, trained there for a week and came back and played here again. I managed it because there was the Champions League, then we played the semifinals.
So if you are a strong footballer and Kolya is strong, you can get out of such a hole. That's if there was any specifics about England. If there wasn't, then it was just the beginning of the season.
Plus, the captain's armband: want it or not, it's responsibility. Even though Kolya says that we are all equal on the field, but the captain is a kind of coach on the soccer field. Therefore, this could have affected somewhere," said Golovko.