The League Paper

Versatile Leo has a lot Mour to offer

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The LeaguePaper Team
13 August 2017

PROFILE ON LEONID SLUTSKY HULL CITY MANAGER
By Chris Dunlavy

INNER CONTROL: Slutsky watches as his Hull side take on Aston Villa in the season opener
PICTURE: Action Images

IT WAS FK Moscow’s flamboyant general manager Yuri Belous who dubbed Leonid Slutsky ‘The Russian Mourinho’.
Aged 33, the rookie coach from the industrial city of Volgograd had just beaten city rivals Spartak in his first game.
That was in 2005 and, from those vaunted beginnings to title glory with CSKA and ten tumultuous months in charge of Russia, the moniker stuck.
In reality, however, Hull City&rs...

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