In
Dejan Lovren (def) Liverpool; Yordan Osorio (def) Porto – loan made permanent; Daniil Krugovoy (def) Ufa – end of loan; Denis Terentjev (def) Ufa – end of loan; Andrey Mostovoy (mid) Sochi – end of loan; Aleksandr Kokorin (att) Sochi – end of loan;
Out
Branislav Ivanovic (r) (def) released; Igor Smolnikov (sp) (def) Krasnodar; Oleg Shatov (sp) (mid) Rubin Kazan; Hernani (sp) (mid) Parma – loan made permanent;
Target
Title-favourites once more and after hardly having any competition domestically in last 2 years hard to see them finishing outside top 2.
