Turan's head coach Vladimir Gazzaev, in an interview with the club's press service, praised the new players, and also said that he hopes to complete the squad before the end of the bidding campaign, a bbabo.net correspondent reports.
The Russian specialist led the Kazakh team on 14 January.
- How would you rate the club's newcomers?
- We managed to sign quality players. Cédric Gogua is an Ivorian center back best known for playing for CSKA Moscow and Partizan Belgrade. He is tall, plays well with his head, has the first pass. We took him at the best football age - he is 27 years old.
In the center of the field we have a bunch of players who have already played and perfectly understand each other - this is the Nigerian Chidi Osuchukwu and the Senegalese Abdullay Diakate. Both footballers are well known to Kazakhstani football fans. Well, Diakate will spend his 11th season in the CPL! Behind him are games for Taraz, Atyrau, Ordabasy. Abdullay knows very well the specifics of our championship, he gives himself 100 percent to the game in every match.
Sierra Leonean Rafael Koroma is a young and promising central defender. He is only 21 years old, but he has all the qualities to grow into a good centre-back.
Another newcomer to the club was the Russian Alexander Kleshchenko, who also plays as a central defender. We worked with him in "Tobol", and last season he spent in the "Ordabasy". Behind him is the experience of playing in the "Tom", "Kuban", "Alania".
Erkin Tapalov - midfielder, player of the Kazakhstan national team. He can play in the position of a central midfielder, and the club can also be useful on the flank.
We really hope for our new goalkeeper Yerzhan Tokotaev, the goalkeeper of the national team of Kyrgyzstan. Yerzhan is young, he is only 21 years old, but he is already showing a mature game beyond his years. Yerzhan has perfectly joined our team and he has excellent prospects.
We also took the flank player of the youth team of Kazakhstan Lev Skvortsov, who certainly has great potential.
Sultan Abilgazy - central defender, played for "Okzhetpes" and "Tobol", went through all the junior and youth teams of Kazakhstan.
Maxim Fedin is one of the fastest players in our championship. Last season was not so bright, but I know his capabilities and our coaching staff will try to return him to his previous condition, so that Maxim would help the Kazakhstan national team.
And, of course, Azat Nurgaliyev, a born leader, a veteran of Kazakhstani football and one of the country's most talented players of the last decade. We really count on Azat's experience, creativity and fighting qualities this season.
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Despite the great work done, our team still needs to strengthen certain positions pointwise - first of all, the goalkeeper and attacking potential. There is still time before the end of the bidding campaign, so we hope to complete our staff.
Recall that KPL-2022 starts on March 5. On this day, Turan will host Taraz at home.
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