Bournemouth Defender Sales To Reach £147m As Zabarnyi Nears Psg Move

Bournemouth defender Illia Zabarnyi is group to person a aesculapian earlier a £57.1m move to Paris St-Germain.

The Ukraine centre-back is successful Paris having agreed individual position connected a five-year statement pinch nan European champions.

The clubs are nevertheless still negotiating nan last specifications of nan 22-year-old's during transfer, which is expected to beryllium worthy an first £54.5m positive £2.6m successful performance-related add-ons.

Zabarnyi's exit would beryllium nan 3rd awesome waste of a defender by Bournemouth this transportation model aft Dean Huijsen joined Real Madrid for £50m and Liverpool signed Milos Kerkez successful a woody worthy £40m.

While nan Cherries must rebuild their defence arsenic a result, they are group to make a patient profit connected nan trio.

Zabarnyi joined Bournemouth successful 2023 from Dynamo Kyiv for a reported £24m, while Hujsen was signed from Juventus past summertime for a interest of £12.6m and Kerkez costs a reported £15.5m from AZ Alkmaar.

Bournemouth agreed a woody for Zabarnyi's replacement, Bafode Diakite, complete nan weekend, pinch nan Lille subordinate group to get for an first interest of £30m that could emergence to £34m pinch add-ons.

Bournemouth expected astatine slightest 1 defender to beryllium sold this summertime but to suffer 3 has been a shock, according to sources wrong nan club.

Each move has been difficult to move down, though, pinch specified precocious fees connected connection from 3 of nan world's biggest clubs.

But nan lengthy negotiations pinch PSG person shown Bournemouth person been doing deals connected their terms, albeit pinch an acceptance each subordinate has wanted to return nan adjacent measurement successful their career.

The Cherries, who much than tripled nan £12.8m paid to motion Huijsen from Juventus six months earlier, did not expect his £50m merchandise clause to beryllium seen arsenic worth for money by suitors wrong a year.

Real Madrid won nan title but Huijsen attracted a batch of different liking - including from Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea - aft a superb play astatine Vitality Stadium.

Diakite fills 1 of nan gaps astatine centre-back and £14.4m Frenchman Adrien Truffert has been signed to capable nan Kerkez spread - and a further cardinal defender is being sought.

Meanwhile, goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic has replaced Kepa Arrizabalaga - who opted to subordinate Arsenal from Chelsea alternatively of Bournemouth - and they besides signed teenage guardant Eli Junior Kroupi successful February.

Manager Andoni Iraola besides wants a striker to adhd title for Evanilson, fixed Enes Unal remains retired having suffered a superior knee wounded past season.