Bournemouth have re-opened talks to sign Lille defender Bafode Diakite as Illia Zabarnyi nears a \u00a355m move to Paris St-Germain.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Cherries had previously walked away from talks with Lille over the \u00a335m asking price for the 24-year-old centre-back.<\/p>\n
But with PSG having broadly agreed to the fee of \u00a355m for Ukraine international Zabarnyi – although negotiations are continuing over add-ons – Bournemouth are now back in the market for Diakite.<\/p>\n
Sources close to Diakite say the former France Under-21 player has verbally agreed personal terms on a five-year deal, but negotiations between the clubs continue over the asking price.<\/p>\n
Lille president Olivier Letang had previously been reluctant to sell Diakite but did not rule out the potential departure of a central defender when asked about it on Friday afternoon, answering “it’s possible but only one”.<\/p>\n
Bournemouth are also keen on signing an additional central defender, with Dean Huijsen having joined Real Madrid in a \u00a350m deal earlier this summer, and are open to signing an additional striker to provide competition for Evanilson. <\/p>\n
The south coast club are also known admirers of Chelsea defender Josh Acheampong and Sevilla centre-back Loic Bade.<\/p>\n
PSG are hopeful of completing a deal to sign Zabarnyi in the next 48 hours as they are keen to get him in before the French season starts. <\/p>\n
All sides are confident of completing a deal, despite reported interest from Tottenham. <\/p>\n
PSG are also reported to have signed Lille goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier for \u00a335m – the French Treble winners are in a contract stand off with current number one Gianluigi Donnarumma. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bournemouth have re-opened talks to sign Lille defender Bafode Diakite as Illia Zabarnyi nears a \u00a355m move to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-328055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114993558003458715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}