Yuri makes one year deal with the club before expressing how he made a choice on it:

-- "I learned about Gabala"s intents to figured out that it is having a big infrastructure and targets. As well, football vision of the club manager left me thinking better about the club. I talked to your veterans on Gabala, and most of them encouraged me to go for Gabala. I thought over it and choose this club”. 

The Russian coach, 66, is also revealing some details on the offer from FC Lokomotiv Moscow:

-- "I was not waiting for response from Lokomotiv: All these are not true talks. The Russian media can write everything they want. I did my choice on Gabala by my heart”.

He also gave the skinny on his assistants -- 

Yuri Baturenko, Andrey Semin, Vugar Mammadov, Sanan Gurbanov, as well as keeper coach Dmitri Kramarenko. The latter also will be a player coach.