Tottenham are ready to launch a £60 million bid to sign Bournemouth centre-back Illia Zabarnyi, according to reports.
Zabarnyi has spent just over two years at Bournemouth having joined in a £24 million deal from from Dynamo Kyiv in January 2023.
According to Sky Sport Italy, Spurs are in the market to sign Zabarnyi and are willing to meet Bournemouth’s £60m asking price.
However, Paris Saint-Germain are also interested in the Ukraine international and have already seen their £52m offer rejected by Bournemouth.
It’s claimed that Zabarnyi is aware of PSG’s approach and the 22-year-old would favour a move to the Champions League holders over Spurs.
Speaking in February, Bournemouth manager, Andoni Iraola, highlighted how important Zabarnyi has been to his side.
‘Zaba for me is even easier to explain, I think,’ Iraola told the Daily Echo.
‘I’m not sure if we decided to change him one minute in the time I’ve been here.
‘So that basically says everything about the confidence we have in him and how reliable and how robust also he is and he’s the kind of player that is very easy to coach.
‘For a coach, he pays attention, he comes every day to train with a great attitude and I am enjoying also his development because now when I arrived he was a great player but quite shy.
‘He didn’t talk a lot and now you see him managing everything from behind, shouting to the ones in front asking for the others and this is a show of how he’s developing and he’s becoming a more important player even for us.
‘I love him personally and as a player.’
Meanwhile, Thomas Frank has already seen his Spurs squad bolstered this month with the arrival of Japanese centre-back Kota Takai and the £55m deal to sign Mohammed Kudus from West Ham.
Mathys Tel and Kevin Danso have also joined Spurs on permanent deals following their loan spells last season, while Luka Vuskovic, the highly rated 18-year-old Croatian centre-back, has finally made the move from Hajduk Split after a £12m deal was agreed in September 2023.
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