Alexey Polyansky: "Lucescu immediately said: "It is not a fact that you will play for me, because the president bought you"

Former Shakhtar defender Oleksiy Polyansky recalled how his relationship with Mircea Lucescu developed at the start of his career.

- "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.