Fulham Close In On £35m Deal For Shakhtar's Kevin

Fulham are closing successful connected a nine grounds £34.6m move for Shakhtar Donetsk winger Kevin.

The move for nan 22-year-old Brazilian is expected to surpass nan club's existent transportation grounds - nan first £27m they paid to motion attacker Emile Smith Rowe from Arsenal past summer.

Kevin predominantly plays connected nan near helping and has scored 17 goals and provided 10 assists successful 57 matches for nan Ukrainian side.

His signing would beryllium a boost for Fulham leader Marco Silva, who antecedently complained astir nan club's slow gait successful nan transportation market.

Silva said nan Cottagers had been "passive" successful nan summertime window, having only added French goalkeeper Benjamin Lecomte from Montpellier.

Fulham are still believed to beryllium successful nan marketplace for an further attacker and person expressed an liking successful Chelsea's Raheem Sterling and Basel's Philip Otele.

The Cottagers person 2 points from their opening 3 Premier League games and were 16th successful nan array aft Saturday's fixtures.

They followed up opening draws astatine Brighton and astatine location to Manchester United pinch a controversial 2-0 conclusion astatine westbound London rivals Chelsea.