Chelsea press spokesperson Toby Craig has responded to reports that London football club is still interested in signing Dynamo Moscow and Russian national team midfielder Arsen Zakharyan.
“That’s not true,” Craig said. sports24.
Journalist Felix Johnston said Chelsea remained interested in Zakharyan, but Londoners were not able to sign the player solely because of the economic sanctions England had placed on Russia.
If you remember, Chelsea offered £12.6m for the 20-year-old midfielder last summer, but the transfer didn’t happen last year due to restrictions on Russian football. Because of this, many Russian clubs had problems getting funds from previous European transfers.
Former Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) compulsory Dynamo Moscow will pay its debt as a mediator in the transfer of the former defender of the Russian national football team, Konstantin Raush.
The Russian football club has to pay 750 thousand Euros to the agency company Golden Toys LLP for the transfer of Rausch from Cologne.