Young talent Ivan Solovyov dreamed of the English Championship, but ruined his career with a premature transition from Dynamo.
The best clubs always strive to have the best players on their roster. So it is in Russia. Summer is coming - and the transfer activity of the St. Petersburg "Zenith" is again aimed at signing promising players with the right passport. Rumors are already sending Zelimkhan Bakaev to Zenit, but that's not all.
Dynamo striker Konstantin Tyukavin, according to Metaratings.ru, can also change one capital to another - the club from St. Petersburg is allegedly interested in him. But if in the case of Bakaev the transition is not without meaning, then the 19-year-old striker should think hard before moving somewhere.
Moreover, in the memory of football fans, the example of another talented Dynamo player is alive, for whom the premature transition was a fatal mistake in his career - Ivan Solovyov. It was a sad story of shattered hopes and deceit...
Admired at Dynamo and dreamed of the Premier League
In 2012, Dynamo was led by Dan Petrescu. It was the Romanian specialist who saw the talent in the 19-year-old left midfielder Ivan Solovyov and began to let him go to the base. At some point, it turned out that Solovyov was even cooler than the Austrian national team player Jakob Jancher. While the legionnaire was sitting on the bench, the young Russian went out onto the field and helped to achieve results.
Solovyov's finest hour was the match against Rubin in the 18th round of the Russian Championship. Dynamo then won with a score of 3: 0, and Ivan became the author of two assists. At that moment, it seemed that the midfielder was waiting for a bright football future. In one of the interviews, he even allowed himself to dream about Europe.
— I like English football, it's nice to watch it. It's hard for me to explain, it's just beautiful. Of course, I would not refuse to play there, - Solovyov told RIA Novosti.
Then there really was a feeling that this player is capable of a lot, including playing at a decent level outside of Russia.
The transition cost Solovyov his career
During the winter training camp of the 2012/13 season, Solovyov raised the issue of salary. At that time, he received only 30 thousand rubles a month. For the main player of the Moscow club - a ridiculous amount. However, the leadership of Dynamo was somehow reluctant to negotiate and put off the discussion of the problem in every possible way - in general, they fed breakfast. Here on the horizon loomed the option of "Zenith".
In St. Petersburg, a promising midfielder was offered a million. As Solovyov himself later said, his agent Dennis Lachter said that it was possible to sign a preliminary agreement, and then, if Dynamo suddenly backtracked, cancel everything. And so they did. Only it wasn't all what it seemed.
Dynamo subsequently really agreed to raise Solovyov's salary. Figured amounts up to 750 thousand rubles a month. But it suddenly turned out that the contract with Zenit, signed by Ivan, was not at all preliminary, but the real one. And it was already impossible to get out of this situation.
According to Solovyov himself, Lachter won the most from this situation. The agent received 1.3 million euros in commission for the transfer of the football player, Solovyov did not get anything from this amount - the player himself spoke about this. Ivan never spoke badly about his representative, but since then he has been doing without an agent.
From the bench of "Zenith" to the championship of Uzbekistan
The scandalous departure from Dynamo was fatal to Ivan's career. He was exiled to various leases: Zenit-2, Amkar, Finnish Lahti ... Then Solovyov played in various FNL clubs, and in 2019 he completely moved to the championship of Uzbekistan. Now he plays for the Nasaf club.
Solovyov said that the breakdown happened precisely at Zenith. There he never had a chance because of the high competition.
- For the first two months at Zenit, I didn’t play, and Spalletti said that Solovyov was good, we like him. As a result, he went on loan, and then he began to prove himself already at Villas-Boas, and Andre began to let me out. And even that is strange: I played in the Champions League, and not bad, but I didn’t get a chance in the Premier League, ”the midfielder said in an interview with Sport24.
It is clear that for a young player who is eager to fight, such an attitude always becomes a heavy blow. At the same time, Ivan never complained about fate, but simply admitted: somewhere the circumstances were unsuccessful, somewhere he trusted the wrong people and hurried to leave his native club.