According to insiders, Volodymyr Brazhko will be training for the new season with Dynamo. This definitely did not come as a surprise. Brazhko had a great season last year with Zorya. In my opinion, he was one of the best players of the entire UPL season.
Volodymyr Brazhko. Photo - zarya-lugansk.comIt's no big secret that Dynamo coach Mircea Lucescu builds the team's game around two players - Serhiy Sydorchuk and Vitaliy Buyalsky (since 2014-15, every coach has relied on these players). If they are healthy and have no disqualifications, they will play.
Brazhko is a direct competitor for the team captain Sydorchuk. It is very important for the talented midfielder to not only return to the capital's team, but to have game practice, as this is the key to development. On the bench, you can very quickly lose everything Volodymyr has gained in a year at Zorya.
In Croatia, when a young player starts knocking on the door of the first team, they look for opportunities to sell a more experienced player to play his position.
In the winter, Mislav Oršić, the leader of Dinamo Zagreb in recent seasons, was sold to Southampton. He was sold not only because he had performed well at the World Cup in Qatar, but also because 19-year-old Gabriel Rukavina had started to knock on the door of the first team.
"Dynamo played against Rennes in the Europa League. The French team features Croatian Lovro Majer. They said goodbye to him not only because of money, but because they needed to make way for Dynamo's current top talent, Martin Baturina. If Mayer was sold for 12 million, I think Baturina will not cost less than 20 million.
Already under Lucescu, Dynamo Kyiv were wooed by Dinamo Zagreb to bring back Christian Jakic. He was sold a long time ago. The player who started playing in his position, Bartol Franić, is already playing in the Bundesliga. Now the main player in this position is 21-year-old Marko Bulat. If Franić and Jakić had not been sold, he would not have played.
In 2013, Jermain Lens came to Dynamo Kyiv. PSV sold their leader not only because of money (€9 million is not the biggest sum for an attacking player of the Dutch national team who was in his best football years), but primarily because Memphis Depay was starting to play in this position. He had to be given a chance in time. Eventually, PSV received €34 million for this player.
Competition, depth of the squad, the ability to strengthen the game - all this is very important. I don't want to criticise Sydorchuk. He is definitely not the weakest player in the current squad. But it's not really possible to combine Sydorchuk and Brazko at the same time. There must be one of them. The team captain a priori cannot sit on the bench. Brazhko also needs to play, because his further progress depends on it. In the summer, we need to choose which of these players will stay at Dynamo for the next season. If Lucescu is ready to continue to rely on Sydorchuk as a system-forming player in the middle of the field (he has his own requirements for this position), then perhaps Brazgcu should play another year on loan. A more experienced player (Andrievsky, Shepelev) can be left in the rotation.
Serhii Tyshchenko
