{"id":402902,"date":"2026-02-01T21:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402902\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:31:15","slug":"arsenal-defender-oleksandr-zinchenko-seals-move-to-ajax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402902\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal defender Oleksandr Zinchenko seals move to Ajax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ajax have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>&#8216;s Oleksandr Zinchenko after the defender&#8217;s season-long loan with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/nottingham-forest\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> was brought to an early end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old&#8217;s contract with the Dutch club will run until June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No details regarding a transfer fee have been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ukraine international had been with the Gunners since July 2022 and played 91 times across three seasons before his spell with Forest, which began in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had previously played for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> but also has Eredivisie experience having been loaned to PSV during the 2016\/17 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ajax&#8217;s director of football, Marijn Beuker, said Zinchenko would give the Amsterdam side &#8220;an immediate quality boost in the pursuit of Champions League football&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ajax have signed Arsenal&#8216;s Oleksandr Zinchenko after the defender&#8217;s season-long loan with Nottingham Forest was brought to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-402902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}