Article by Dragoș Petrescu – published on Sunday, June 15, 2025 22:03 / Updated Sunday, June 15, 2025 22:32
Just before the debut at the World Club Championship, PSG It is close to an important stroke in the Mercato area. New holder of the Champions League is on the verge of obtaining the Ukrainian signature Ilya Zabarnyithe 22 -year -old central defender of those at the Bournemouthwhich impressed in the last season of the Premier League.
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The World Club Championship takes place between June 14 and July 13, being fully available on the Voyo.ro platform, and the most important matches will be televised by Pro TV, respectively Pro Arena;
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32 teams participate, distributed in eight groups of four. The first two of each group qualifies in optimal;
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The final takes place on the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey on July 13.
The full program of the first stage of the club world
After a perfectly perfect season, in which he won everything he could win, Paris Saint-Germain does not show that he would break the brake, so that Europe's new champion begins to be active on the transfer market.
The transfer of Ilya Zabarny to PSG, “just a matter of time”
According to Matteo Moretto, the band from Park des Princes is approaching with fast steps to the first summer purchase, Ilya Zabarnyi, the Bournemouth footballer that Luis Enrique wants to have at a time.
The Spanish journalist also stated that the negotiations between the two clubs are in an advanced stage, being only a matter of time until the transfer is formalized, and the Parisians are going to pay about 60 million euros in exchange for the Ukrainian defender.
But it is not for the first time that PSG and Bournemouth are in direct contact for Zabarnyi. According to the same source, the French club was also interested in its services, but then, the officials of the Vitality Stadium group refused to give it up.
Now it seems that the denouement will be another, which means that Bournemouth will lose both central defenders, considering that Dejan Huijsen has already signed with Real Madrid.
Dejan Huijsen and Ilya Zabarnyi, the couple of central defenders of Bournemouth in the Season 2024/2025 // Photo: Imago Images
Ilya Zabarnyi, debuted by Mircea Lucescu at Dinamo Kyiv
Zabarnyi arrived in the Premier League in the winter of 2023, being bought by Bournemouth from Dinamo Kiev for 22 million euros.
On September 11, 2020, just ten days after he turned 18, Zabarnyi was on Dinamo Kiev's reserve bench at a championship match, played against Desna Chernihiv and concluded, score 0-0.
But the chance would be on his side. At the beginning of the match, more precisely in the 11th minute, Oleksandr Tymchyk was injured, and “Il Luce” went to the young stop, who played flawlessly, and since then, he has not lost the team. Moreover, he became a constant holder of Ukraine's national.
