Former Shakhtar defender Oleksiy Polyansky recalled how his relationship with Mircea Lucescu developed at the start of his career.
Alexey Polyansky (right)- "I signed a five-year contract and got to Shakhtar, and Lucescu was already there. However, he immediately said: "It's not a sure thing that you will play for me, because the president bought you, not me. We'll see". What kind of relationship have we developed? Normal relations in general. Then I got injured and was loaned out.
We came back from the loan with Fedetskyi Tioma and on the second day, I remember, I had a metatarsal bone and he had groin rings. We were operated on then and recovered. Then I recovered and tore my shoulder when there was an international break, and we went to Romania. And then I had loan spells with Ilichevets, Zorya, Ilichevets again, Goverla, Metalist..." Polyansky toldUV.
