Eto’o agrees terms with Anzhi – report

Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o has agreed terms with Anzhi Makha-chkala and is on the verge of joining the ambitious southern Russian club from Inter, a Russian news report said yesterday.

The LifeNews.ru website said the 30-year-old had agreed the terms of his contract and would be signing the deal after passing a medical.

“The last formalities of the contract have been ironed out,” the website quoted a Russian agent with knowledge of the situation as saying.

The website had earlier said Anzhi would be paying Inter a transfer fee of about €40 million and the player €15 million per season.

There was no official reaction from the club and the report did not specify the length of the contract.

Anzhi were believed to have been offering Eto’o a three-year deal while the player was seeking four.

Inter president Massimo Moratti had on Wednesday said he was ready to consider an “interesting” offer for Eto’o from Anzhi.

Eto’o finished as Inter’s top scorer last season and helped the club win the treble the year before. But the Serie A club are said to be pushing to sell him in order to finance a bid for Carlos Tevez.

Makhachkala is the capital of Dagestan – one of Russia’s most dangerous and unstable regions that sits to the east of war-torn Chechnya.

But that has not stopped Brazilian star Roberto Carlos and Russian international winger Yuri Zhirkov from joining the club.