St. Petersburg football club Zenit is considering the possibility of acquiring the captain of the Turkish midfielder Besiktas Orkuna Kökçü. The newspaper Fanatik reports it.

According to the source, Zenit approached Besiktas with a transfer proposal. The figure offered by the St. Petersburg club reportedly exceeds 30 million euros.

Kökçü is 25 years old; this season he has played 21 games for Besiktas in all competitions and provided three assists. The footballer plays this season for the Istanbul club on loan from Benfica, with whom he won the Portuguese Super Cup in 2023. From 2018 to 2023, Kökçü played for Feyenoord, with whom he won the Dutch championship of the 2022/23 season and was recognized as the country’s best footballer of the year at the end of the season. The midfielder played 46 games for the Turkish national team, scoring three goals and providing nine assists.

Forward from Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba excluding a transfer to a Chinese football club.

Since 2023 he has been the coach of the Chinese team Shanghai Shenhua Leonid Slutskywith whom Dzyuba worked in the Russian national team.

“I definitely won’t go to a Chinese club. As for Leonid Slutsky, I really hope that Viktorovich returns to Russia, leads a top club and increases his record, in my opinion, among coaches,” Dzyuba said. – He will win here. I think as soon as the European Cup returns, there will be a great possibility that Slutsky will come back here.”

Dzyuba is 37 years old and is the top scorer in the history of Russian football. The footballer graduated from Spartak in Moscow and also played for Zenit of St. Petersburg, with whom he won the Russian championship four times, two national cups and four super cups. He also played for Tomsk “Tom”, “Rostov”, Tula “Arsenal”, Turkish “Adana Demispor” and Moscow “Lokomotiv”.