otland and Kilmarnock forward Kevin Kyle...

Kyle, 29, was expected to join up with the North Caucasus club this week and take part in a training match on Tuesday ahead of the new Russian season, which begins later this month.

"It"s not gone through," said Kilmarnock manager Jimmy Calderwood, as quoted by Scotland"s STV. "It was his own choice. Right up until Monday night it looked like it was going to go through.

"He should have been on a plane now but I doubt very much if he is. I think he"s just pulled the plug on it himself."

Kyle, who has been capped ten times for Scotland, is out of a contract with Kilmarnock this summer.

"The offer had been very interesting and he"s obviously going to be free in the summer," Calderwood added.

Kyle would have become the second Scottish international to play in the Russian top-flight after former Hibernian striker Garry O"Connor spent 2006-2007 with Lokomotiv Moscow.

Despite reported wages of some $140,000 a month, O"Connor struggled to settle

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