It is not a secret for anyone: PSG has targeted its priority as the central defender for next season and its name is Illya Zabarnyi. The Ukrainian defender of Bournemouth is one of the sensations of the Premier League season. At the age of 22, the young central defender was in the viewfinder of Luis Campos and Luis Enrique. The Parisian management, after having made a huge blow by recruiting Pacho in Frankfurt last summer, wanted to repeat by taking a player still unknown to the general public and capable of quickly hatching.
This year, his duet with Dean Huijsen (who signed in Real Madrid) had impressed all the Premier League. And PSG therefore hoped quickly to recover it. A few weeks ago, we revealed to you that the Ukrainian international (47 selections) strongly pleased the Parisian board. And the interest was reciprocal since the player quickly expressed his direction his desire to leave England to join the last winner of the Champions League. He therefore already agreed with Paris and it was therefore now necessary to do the hardest for the capital's club: getting along with Bournemouth.
A deal around 60 million
For several weeks, the two clubs have been discussing and necessarily Bournemouth has been gourmet. After losing Huijsen for more than 60 million, the English club wants, according to our information, to have around 70 million for Zabarnyi. A substantial sum that PSG has logically tried to decrease for several days. And according to the indiscretions of the relief media, the two camps are getting closer after day of an agreement for this deal. The trend would be at a deal around 60 million euros without counting the bonuses.
PSG is about to complete a very nice stroke in defense. Trained at Dynamo kyiv and after having known his first selection against France (7-1 defeat in 2020), Illya Zabarnyi is increasingly close to evolving in Ligue 1. At 22, and after two solid years in the Premier League, he corresponds to the new sports strategy of the Parisian club which prepares the future and who offers a player in the making who will not do any harm in rotation.
