Igor Smolnikov and Artem Dziuba move to Lokomotiv

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Ex-players of the Russian national team, forward Artem Dzyuba and defender Igor Smolnikov, are moving to the Lokomotiv football club. The fact that the team managed to get two recognized field veterans at once is reported by Russian media. It is known that the contracts of athletes will be valid until the end of the current season. The fee of each player will be 2.5 million rubles.

The players have already passed a medical examination at Luzhniki Stadium, and only a few formalities remain to complete the procedure. Artem Dzyuba, who has already chosen his game number and will play on the field in a T-shirt with a seven, contacted subscribers and made an announcement.

Glad to be back in the RPL! Thanks to the leadership of Lokomotiv for the trust! – he wrote under the new pictures from the office of the football club. – To everyone who helped and worried — thanks a lot too. Insanely happy and I will try not to let you down!

Previously, 34-year-old Dzyuba played in the Adana Demirspor club. The football player terminated the contract on November 6 last year. His peer Smolnikov played for Torpedo Moscow for the first part of the 2022/23 season.