Director of football on Mudryk’s move, club president Akhmetov’s donation to help Ukraine and why he feels let down by Fifa
Almost 11 months have passed since Darijo Srna left Kyiv, not knowing when or if he would return. “Russia has not stopped,” he says. “Look what they did in Dnipro a few days ago: 40 people dead. The only thing that has changed is that we are even stronger and more united, working and waiting for a great victory. The whole world will find a way to end this.”
The Croat is sitting in the west London cafe where, days after completing his evacuation, he met the Guardian last March. Right up to the clear, cold blue sky outside, the scene is almost identical. But no two days have been the same for Shakhtar Donetsk’s director of football over the intervening period. He has had to react to his squad’s decimation after the Ukrainian top flight shut down; there was the long, difficult but ultimately successful struggle to resurrect the domestic game in August; most recently he helped broker the sale of Shakhtar’s prize asset, Mykhaylo Mudryk, to Chelsea in a deal worth up to £88m.
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