The National
Wednesday 6th March, 2013
Guus Hiddink describes Anzhi Makhachkala as the “most travelling team in the world”, but since recently penetrating football’s consciousness the nouveau-riche Russian side have been more like a travelling circus. Big-top transfer fees brought outrageous talent, encouraged equally excessive salaries and fostered a cynicism commensurate with the outlay. New signings were mercenaries who would rather reside around Moscow’s Tsvetnoy Boulevard than on the shores of the faraway Caspian Sea. Yet a refashioned philosophy has prompted a fresh trend. Anzhi are no longer clowning around, Hiddink says. …
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