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The Glasgow defender from Holland Fernando Ricksen, who was in conflict with the club, has been loaned to the team in St. Petersburg for one season, where another forward will also join. The deal should be sorted out on Monday and the 30-year-old former Dutch national team player will rejoin his compatriot and current "Zenit" coach Dick Advocaat, who six years ago, while coaching "Rangers", called up Ricksen from Alkmaar's "AZ" in Scotland. The versatile right-back player played 182 matches in the Scottish "Premier" league during that time and scored 13 goals. F. Ricksen did not fit into the plans of the new "Rangers" head coach Paulo Le Guen after disagreements during the club's preseason camp in South Africa and has recently been in a rehabilitation clinic. As "Rangers" announce, the footballer still needs to undergo a medical examination and agree on the conditions of a personal contract, and on August 23rd, both teams will play a friendly match in Glasgow. Another player transferring to "Zenit" is the forward from Moscow's "Torpedo" Aleksandr Panov. The 30-year-old former Russian national team footballer spent his best career years at "Zenit", and in 2000 moved to France to represent "Saint-Etienne". In the Moscow team, A. Panov played 67 matches in the Russian championship and scored 27 goals, but now, after both clubs agreed on the transfer fee, the Russian will return to St. Petersburg. A. Panov's arrival likely means that the Lithuanian forward will have to look for a new club. D. Advocaat's team increasingly rarely featured the Lithuanian in the lineup, and with the recent addition of one of the most famous Turkish forwards, Fatih Tekke, the chances of R. Poskus playing have decreased even further.
