Laudatory articles in Ukraine come at a price for Zinchenko, says Viktor Leonenko.

Former Dynamo Kyiv player and now well-known football expert Viktor Leonenko spoke about Arsenal defender Oleksandr Zinchenko.

“Zinchenko is just lucky. What makes you think that in England it is not tractor drivers who write about him? Maybe he pays for articles about himself, I don’t know. In Ukraine, he definitely pays, I even know to whom, but I won’t say. However, I do not blame Zinchenko for this.

They write that he is “super”, but you look at the statistics – one goal and two assists. We have people like Vacki who like to look at the tables, where Arsenal are in first place, and draw conclusions. And if you take Vacko specifically, then he just reads the foreign press [о Зинченко] and retells it,” Leonenko said.