I was listening to the podcast episode on strong teams that didn't win European Cup and during the Dynamo Kyiv part it reminded me of this guy...Viktor Leonenko.
The highlight doesn't particularly do him justice and is hardly the best put together you'll find, it's more just a glimpse at the player and missing most of his goals but i couldn't find anything better. He was a Russian 10/supporting forward that first showed his potential as a young player briefly at Dinamo Moscow during the last Soviet season, then fled the team at the start of the first independent Russian one to fulfill a dream of playing for Kyiv, which got him disqualified for a time. He became the star of the team and early Ukrainian league during the early-mid '90s , playing alongside Rebrov. Scoring 24 in 36, 17 in 26 and 20 in 29, with 8 in 12 in Europe, winning player of the year three times back to back. His passing, vision and dribbling skills were excellent and was a prolific scorer for the position too. Aesthetically he could be quite similar to Savicevic.
Unfortunately like a lot of ex-Soviet players of that specific time that found themselves suddenly in different, much less strict environments he gained a reputation as a drinker, difficult character and seriously lacking dedication in training. An attitude it seems the managers in those years (other than Szabo for a year) didn't do a lot to change in various players as long as they were decent on the pitch. He had a poor relationship with Szabo who started to freeze him out of the team in the 95-96 season for supposed worsening fitness/attitude reasons and then when Lobanovsky returned to restore a more professional environment and made the team more competitive in EUrope during the 96/97 his fate was predictably sealed. Relegated to the bench, then feeder teams until 2000, afterward he quickly retired.
He claims he did everything Szabo and then Lobanovsky told him to do to return to the team in terms of fitness and hitting scoring/assist totals in training and that they basically ruined his career not letting him leave the club until physical issues started. I'm not too convinced by him though at least on the fitness side of things. It's sad as he was an excellent talent that with a better attitude would have had a good chance to become a greater player and perhaps been the missing part to push the late 90s Kyiv and Ukraine(who he chose to represent) team a step or two further and/or have success abroad like Sheva.
After football he spends a lot of time as a controversial pundit and looking more and more like Tony Soprano every year.