Everton’s search for a new midfielder looks set to continue with Arsenal closing in on a move for Manchester City’s Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Reports earlier in the summer claimed that the Blues had shown interest in the four-times Premier League winner as Frank Lampard looked to revamp his side’s engine room.
Although the 25-year-old wasn’t pushing to leave the Etihad, he has been eager to get more game time – he featured in just 15 Premier League matches for City last term – and wants to play more in his more favoured box-to-box role he operates for Ukraine rather than the left-back berth Pep Guardiola primarily deploys him in. After seemingly missing out on Ajax’s Lisandro Martinez, who is now in advanced talks with Manchester United and poised to follow Erik ten Hag to Old Trafford, Arsenal acted swiftly to make their move for Zivchenko and the deal has accelerated quickly since they moved ahead of Everton as the bookmakers’ favourites to land the player.
