Abascal has extended the contract with Spartak: the new contract is valid until 2025

Athletistic/ Football. On February 13, Spartak head coach Guillermo Abascal extended the contract with the capital team until 2025. As part of the new deal, he will receive 1.5 million euros per season.

Earlier outlets reported that the previous contract with the Spaniard included half the wages.

Guillermo Abascal took charge of Spartak in the summer of 2022. The red-and-whites, led by the Spaniard, have scored 36 points after 17 rounds and sit second in the Russian Premier League table. In the Russian Cup, Spartak will play the first round of the RPL Path with Lokomotiv. The first match will take place on February 22, the second on March 1.

Recently, the red-whites won the Winline RPL Winter Cup by defeating Rostov, Krasnodar and Sochi.

“We are happy to have extended the agreement with Guillermo and his coaching staff. This is what both parties were looking for, so the negotiations went constructively. We will continue to work together for the benefit of our club,” the Spartak general manager said. Yevgeny Melezhikov.

“I would like to thank the club for the trust. Spartak is a family. We continue to win victories together!” – said Guillermo Abascal.

“Abascal was well deserving of his contract extension. He has already shown good work, which is delivering results. I think after a while the team will progress under him. It’s all on the record, extensions with Spartak were to be expected. The club with this coach has excellent prospects. This year there is no chance to compete for the championship with Zenit. Many players of the St. Petersburg team are in ahead of Spartak in terms of skills and status. Next year Spartak will have chances, but it’s not,” said former Russian national team defender Vladimir Granat.

“It’s an important story for the coach – after all, he came to the team under the previous owners, worked for six months, proved himself – and received an assessment from the new owners.

Also, I think the club read the news that they had options on the side and quickly decided to extend the contract. It’s like a sign for the coach: don’t worry man, we believe in you, don’t go anywhere.

The merits of Abascal are obvious. The team is working and playing well, there are results in the table, the progress of a large group of young players is visible. The team’s game is pretty, it brings results. This contract is like a recognition for the first part of the season. It is also important that, despite the departure of a personality like Zhigot, there is no fire in the defence,” the Spartak veteran said. Yevgeny Lovchev.

“In the logic of a football club, it’s a normal decision. The team is in second place. Extended means extended. In all football clubs they extend if the team is in high places .

Salary 1.5 million euros? Here you are please. And nobody needs their own people who give their life to football. But from all sides, they shout that football must be developed.

Why the hype then with Spain and “Seville”? Probably, they deliberately increased the cost, agents began to work. Logically, the decision is correct. But a whole range of Russian coaches, as they like to say, are not in demand here,” said the former Spartak midfielder. Alexander Mostovoi.

“I wrote to the management that it was necessary to renew now on better terms. I was afraid that it would be late this summer. I would be offended if, most likely, Karpin and half of Rostov came. Luca Cattani and I did not build this team for him with smart Russian players like Prutsev and Zinkovsky, who is extremely variable and plays in the maximum number of combinations Now until the summer of 2025 I can be calm for Spartak, enjoy attacking football and the progression of my favorite team,” said Zarema Salikhovawife of former Spartak owner Leonid Fedun.

Under Abaskala, Spartak had a positive dynamic in the development of the team. The red-whites improved the atmosphere both in the locker room and on the football field. Extending the contract is a logical step for Spartak. Abascal deserved.

Recently, rumors have started to appear about the interest of European teams for the Spaniard: ‘Spartak’ has just decided to stop all these conversations by extending the agreement with Guillermo”, said the former goalkeeper of the Russian national team. Ruslan Nigmatullin.

“I don’t think it’s a premature decision to extend the contract with Abascal now. On the contrary, Spartak’s absolutely correct decision. We see how he is working, and Spartak is developing in the right direction and progressing. The game has changed – he became strikers, they score a lot Coach, so the decision is absolutely correct,” said the former footballer of “Spartak” Moscow. Valery Kechinov.