Ex-head coach of Shakhtar Mircea Lucescu promotes the transfer of defender Dinamo Eugenia Khacheridi to Galatasaray.

A few days ago, information appeared about the interest of Turkish Galatasaray in the person of the defender of Dynamo and the national team of Ukraine Evgenia Khacheridi.

In the 29-year-old centerback Galatasaray sees a great alternative to the Madrid player Real Madrid Pepe, with whom the club negotiated within a month.

According to Takvim, the leadership of Galatasaray appealed to Zenit's head coach Mircea Lucescu, who worked for a long time in the Turkish club and Donetsk Shakhtar, asking him to voice his opinion about Khacheridi.

"He is very experienced and calm, he has the features of a leader. Eugene could not play much this season due to injury, but the quality of this player is not in doubt, "- quotes the words of Lucescu Turkish edition.

Earlier it was reported that a Romanian specialist could take the post of sports director Galatasaray.