Athletistic/ Football. The second part of last season Chalov spent in the Swiss “Basel”. The striker himself has repeatedly said that he would like to stay at the club, but in the end he had to return to CSKA.

But this story is not over. Earlier, Basel’s press service chief Simon Walter said the Swiss club still hope to bring Russian striker Fedor Chalov back. At the moment, “Basel” is negotiating with the army team about the possible return of Chalov.

“Basel” and CSKA continue to talk about Chalov. But it is clear that the situation is not simple. Fedor has integrated perfectly, the club and the team would be happy if he stayed in Switzerland, but, of course, this is a matter that the two clubs have to settle between themselves. By the way, there has been no real farewell to Fedor yet,” RB Sport Walter quotes.

For the Swiss club, Chalov has scored four goals and two assists in 16 bouts. It’s curious that Fedor worked in Basel under Spanish head coach Guillermo Abascal, who has led Spartak since June.

Recall that Chalov made his debut in the main team of CSKA on September 21, 2016 in the away match of 1/16 of the Russian Cup against Yenisei (1:2) – he entered the game in the 76th minute. November 6 made his Premier League debut in a match against Perm “Amkar”.

On November 18, 2016, he first appeared in CSKA’s starting lineup in the league game against Tula Arsenal. On November 22, 2016, he made his Champions League debut in a game against Bayer. On December 3, he scored his first goal of his professional career against the Urals (4-0). On May 12, 2017, in a match against Tula Arsenal (3-0), he scored the first double of his career. At the end of 2017, he was named the best young footballer in Russia and won the honorary prize of the top five.

On April 12, 2018, in the quarter-finals of the Europa League, he scored his first goal in European competition, knocking at the gates of Arsenal in London (2-2). On April 18, he scored a brace against Amkar (3:0), and on May 6, in a match against Tula Arsenal (6:0), he scored a hat-trick in the first half. This brought the footballer to seventh place in the ranking of youngest footballers with this achievement (at that time he was 20 years and 26 days old). After 5 days, he received the RFPL “Best Player of the Month” award, beating teammate Ahmed Musa and Quincy Promes of Spartak Moscow in the standings.

On September 1, 2018, he scored a hat-trick in the RPL 6th round match of the 2018/19 season, in which CSKA beat Ural 4:0. He scored his first Champions League goal on September 19 2018 in the away match against Viktoria Pilsen (2-2). On December 12, he took part in CSKA’s victory in the Champions League group stage 6th round match against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu, scoring the army team’s first goal at the 37th minute. Became the top scorer in the championship of Russia-2018/19, scoring 15 goals.

In the summer of 2019, English club Crystal Palace became interested in Chalov, who offered £25million for his transfer. However, CSKA refused the deal. The 2019/20 season was much weaker than the previous one, in the Russian championship in 30 matches he scored only 8 goals, while five of them became victorious for CSKA. In six Europa League matches, he scored one goal – in a home game against Ludogorets (1-1). On November 20, 2020, CSKA announced the extension of the contract with Chalov until the end of the 2023/24 season.

On February 1, 2022, he was loaned to Swiss club Basel, the agreement is valid until the end of the 2021/22 season and does not provide for the possibility of buying a transfer. On March 3, 2022, he scored his first goals for Basel, hitting St. Gallen’s goal twice in the match on the 24th round of the Swiss Super League. On the next lap, he hit the gates of Lugano. On April 24, as part of the 31st day of the Super League, he knocked on the doors of Lucerne (3-0).

How will this story end? Shalov himself is in a fighting mood.

“I had a full training camp with Basel, so I joined the job without any problems. So far we have decided to limit the load a bit because of the long flight, but from tomorrow I will train fully, I feel good physically, I will be ready for the season,” the striker said in one of the interviews.

This summer CSKA changed their head coach. Instead of Alexei Berezutsky, former Sochi coach Vladimir Fedotov led the army team.

Andrei Lipatov, Sport.Ru