Former England coach Fabio Capello HAS arrived in Moscow to hold talks with Russian Premier League club Anzhi Makhachkala, daily newspaper Sport Express reports

The 65-year-old Italian manager, considered by Anzhi chiefs as a possible candidate for the club’s head coach post even when he was coaching the English national squad, came to Moscow just days after his resignation.

Another daily, Soviet Sport, has reported that Capello was expected to join Anzhi in Turkey next week, where the club will spend two weeks training in the Mediterranean resort of Baled ahead of the restart of the domestic season after the winter break.

On Saturday local media reported the sacking of Anzhi manager Yury Krasnozhan, who took over the club in December, but the club refused to confirm the information.

Anzhi said Krasnozhan’s future would be decided on Monday, adding however the club had sacked general director Soslan Soziev.

Meanwhile, Soviet Sport reported Krasnozhan would be shifted within the club, Anzhi offering him the post of deputy president.

“There will be changes in the club staff,” Anzhi’s current deputy president, German Chistyakov, said. “We have serious reasons for those changes.”

Anzhi, founded in 1991, have enjoyed little success in Russian football until being acquired by the tycoon Suleyman Kerimov last year and going on a spending spree that landed them Cameroonian striker Samuel Eto’o and Brazilian Roberto Carlos.

Anzhi are seventh in the Russian Premiership with 52 points from 32 matches, 13 points behind the leaders, Zenit St Petersburg.

Anzhi, whose players live and train in Moscow for security reasons and travel 2000km to Makhachkala in Dagestan – one of Russia’s most impoverished and violent regions – for home games of the Russian Premier League.