In Russia, for the time being, there is no critical note about Quincy Promes. On the contrary, because the thirty-year-old star player of Spartak Moscow is praised by team manager Artem Rebrov for his role at the Russian top club. “He left Spartak as a leader on the field, but has come back as the boss in the locker room,” Rebrov said. sports.ru†
Rebrov has known Promes for years, because the 38-year-old former goalkeeper himself was under the bar at Spartak during the first period of the ex-Ajacied in Russia (from 2014 to 2018). Promes has been back at Spartak since the winter of 2021 and for the time being he does not plan to move again. “When he arrived here he said that he will not leave Spartak until he is champion,” said Rebrov. In any case, that will not work this season, because Spartak is very disappointingly ninth.
As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA recently instituted an ‘extraordinary transfer market’, allowing foreign footballers to temporarily leave Russia. A number of players made use of this, but not at Spartak. “Quincy has played an important role in calming his team-mates in this difficult situation. As I understand it, he immediately started talks to convince everyone to stay here. He said we should focus on the football, and the President has also given the players some guarantees.”
Promes also had little reason to leave, after it recently came out that the wing striker confessed to his alleged attempted murder of his cousin in wired telephone conversations. In the Russian press, however, nothing is written about it. “Promes really knows how to take responsibility and lead people,” Rebrov says. “In his first period he didn’t really care what happened, but now he can really scold his teammates if they are late. Something like, ‘Come early, why are you so late?'” Promes feels completely at home in Russia. “He also speaks the language more or less. I remember him saying to me at the beginning, ‘Fans come to me, but I want to be able to understand what they’re saying.'”