Transfer work continues at full speed in the Black Sea giant. Trabzonspor has its eyes especially set on Ukraine this season. The claret blue team, which made a splash by adding 23-year-old striker Danylo Sikan from Ukrainian giant Shakhtar Donetsk for 6 million euros, has been trying for a long time to transfer right winger Oleksandr Zubkov from the same team. This time, Fırtına is focused on a different name. It has been learned that the Trabzonspor management, which has put Denys Popov, who has a 1.5-year contract left with the Dynamo Kiev club, on its agenda, has been intensively contacting him for a while to finalize the transfer of the 25-year-old defender.
THEY HAVE BEEN MEETING FOR 1.5 WEEKS
Ukrainian press announced that the two club officials have been negotiating for Popov for 1.5 weeks. The 1.85 tall football player, who grew up in the infrastructure of the blue and white club, can play both right and left defender. So he can use both feet. Popov, who played 22 matches in all competitions this season and scored 2 goals, has a market value of 4 million euros. He wore the Ukrainian National Team jersey 3 times. Although Kiev President Igor Surkis said, “The interest around it is only at the level of rumors. There is no official interest document yet,” but the latest reports indicate that negotiations with Trabzonspor are continuing.
THERE ARE 6 CUPS
Popov, who won 1 Ukrainian League championship, 2 Ukrainian Cups and 1 Ukrainian Super Cup with the Dynamo Kiev team, also became champion in the U20 World Cup held in 2019 with Ukraine U20.