General manager “Ak Barsa » Marat Valiullin in an interview with explained how the negotiations on the exchange of the 29-year-old striker were going Damira Zhafiarova .
This offseason, Zhafyarov moved from SKA to Ak Bars, where he scored 2 (1+1) points in 15 matches averaging 11.26 minutes of playing time per game.
— Riley Barber joined Ak Bars from Barys, who scored 23 (10+13) points in 28 matches. Does this mean that Damir Zhafyarov is leaving Kazan for good?
— For now, Zhafyarov is with us. Indeed, we are working on his exchange and communicating with his representative. We don’t want Damir to suffer from this situation. He is still in a good position in the championship. But things did not go well for him at Ak Bars. It happens, the situation is not unique. Maybe the trade will happen before the deadline. Or maybe not. “I will not guarantee that Zhafyarov will leave Ak Bars permanently,” Valiullin said for .
After 34 league matches, Ak Bars ranks fifth in the Eastern Conference with 40 points.
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