21-year-old midfileder Mitsuke Saito will join Rubin Kazan on one-and-half season loan, the club announced.

The Japanese plays as central midfielder and central atacking midfielder, before he spent whole carrer for the Shonan Bellmare from the top country division J-1 League. Overall Saito scored four goals in 77 league games.

Saito will become the seventh player from Japan in the RPL history after Keisuke Honda (ex-CSKA), Seiichiro Maki (ex-Amkar Perm), Daisuke Matsui (ex-Tom Tomsk), Takafumi Akahosi (ex-Ufa), Takuma Nishimura (currently on loan from CSKA in Vegalta Sendai) and Kento Hashimoto, who is playing now for Rostov.