Nottingham Forest completed a late deadline-day signing for Arsenal left back Oleksandr Zinchenko after their move for Atl\u00e9tico Madrid\u2019s Javi Galan collapsed. Forest had been linked with Galan but the deal broke down in the final stages and the club moved quickly to find an alternative.<\/p>\n
Forest were able to get the Arsenal transfer over the line after submitting a deal sheet that granted them an extension to finalise the move. The arrival addresses a clear need for a left back following the failed pursuit of their initial target.<\/p>\n
Zinchenko joined Arsenal in the summer of 2022 and was a regular across his first two seasons at the club. Injuries then began to affect his career at the Emirates and competition for the left-back role intensified. Myles Lewis-Skelly\u2019s breakout, plus the addition of Ricardo Calafiori last season and Jurrien Timber\u2019s versatility, all contributed to Zinchenko struggling for minutes.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the summer Zinchenko admitted that 2024\u201325 was the worst season he had experienced as a professional , managing just 23 appearances and less than 1,000 minutes across all competitions for Arsenal. Through three games this season he had been left out of Arteta\u2019s squad, signalling that his time at the club was coming to an end until a suitor was found.<\/p>\n
Ultimately Nottingham Forest, with former Arsenal sporting director Edu Gaspar involved in the move, completed the transfer for the wantaway left back. The switch is a late resolution to a situation that had left Zinchenko peripheral at Arsenal and provides Forest with an experienced option on the left flank ahead of the 2025\/26 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Late on deadline day, Forest completed a deal to sign Oleksandr Zinchenko after target collapse last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,298,172],"tags":[844,182],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-nottingham-forest","category-epl","tag-oleksandr-zinchenko","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}