MOSCOW, July 23 Spartak Moscow footballer Alexander Sobolev is still close to moving to Zenit St. Petersburg, but the parties have not yet agreed on the amount of the transfer and payment of agency fees, a source close to the situation said.
It was previously reported that Sobolev's transfer will take place in the near future; the 27-year-old football player agreed to the terms of the contract offered to him by the St. Petersburg club. The general director of the “red-whites” Oleg Malyshev, in turn, said that Sobolev remains a Spartak player, and the club has not received any offers from Zenit. The striker was in the starting lineup for Spartak in the first round match of the Russian Premier League (RPL) against Orenburg (0:2).
Spartak is still close to releasing Alexander Sobolev, and Zenit is still close to signing a contract with the Muscovites forward. The parties have not yet reached an agreement on the transfer amount and payment of agency fees. The St. Petersburg team did not make any official, much less improved, proposals. The player's agent Pavel Andreev is very active. His position has strengthened significantly after his transfer from Lokomotiv and Maxim Glushenkov’s bright debut at Zenit,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
Sobolev has been playing for Spartak since January 2020, he moved to Moscow club from the Samara «Wings of the Soviets». In total, the forward played 139 matches for the «red-whites», in which he scored 58 goals and gave 32 assists. Together with Spartak, Sobolev became the silver and bronze medalist of the Russian Championship, won the National Cup (2022). ).