The head coach of Lokomotiv, **Mikhail Galaktionov**, addressed whether he had been approached by either Dynamo or Spartak Moscow. During the first part of the Russian Premier League season, coaches Valery Karpin and Dejan Stankovic departed from their respective teams.

**— Following Boris Borisovich Rotenberg’s arrival, you extended your contract quite swiftly. Were you contacted by Spartak or Dynamo before this extension? There were rumors, especially since they have both undergone coaching changes recently.**
— We are very pleased to continue our journey with Lokomotiv and are grateful to the club’s leadership and upper management for their trust. We enjoy what is happening within the team and will do everything we can to ensure that this progress continues. Coaching is a profession that can change at any moment… Today, we are discussing a successful episode. That’s life; it’s completely normal. No one can predict what will happen next.

A good friend of mine always responds to my greeting, “How are you?” with, “We’re still working.” After asking him for the tenth time, I said, “Why ‘still working’?” He replied, “25 years in the same place,” said Galaktionov in an episode on the YouTube channel “This is Football, Brother!”