Football Season Guide

Spartak Moscow had an exciting, turbulent and eventually successful season last year as they just about held out for the second place and gained a spot in the Champions League qualifiers. However, the main that inspired that success in German coach Domenico Tedesco is not around anymore as his constant power struggle with the board saw him depart. Portuguese coach Rui Vitoria is the new man at the helm and it will be certainly curious to see how he gets on at a new environment, with his biggest achievement to date being the titles won with Benfica in 2016 and 2017. The main aim for Spartak will be to retain the core of the squad that showed real promise last season, with the likes of Jordan Larsson, Alex Ural and Quincy Promes the ones being linked with moves but staying put so far. There have been no new incomings so far but Spartak certainly need a few players to add depth to the squad along with their promising young players, like Pavel Maslov, Nail Umyarov and Dmitri Martkitesov, if they are to sustain a good challenge on the European front. The squad looks pretty good on paper but with a new manager and still lots of uncertainty about the squad, it is hard to make a definite prediction about which way Spartak's season is going to go.