Croatia pair Vedran Corluka and Luka Modric have
accused him of being lazy by not learning more since his September
arrival from Spartak Moscow.
Spartak keeper Stipe Pletikosa confronted the Russian
when his team was in London to play Spurs in the UEFA Cup.
Pletikosa said he told Pavlyuchenko: “Your team-mates
say that after four months in London you still do not speak any
English? This is no good — don’t be lazy and start learning the
language properly.”
The showdown was revealed by Russian paper Sovetski
Sport.
And Modric said: “It’s probably because we can’t talk
to each other properly that we still do not interact 100 per
cent.”
in singapore we have colleagues from china who barely speak
english. sometimes we have to act as translator between our indian
and china colleagues so that they can do the job properly
together.