Feyenoord’s Igor Paixao at centre of Premier League transfer race after running Kyle Walker ragged in Champions League

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THREE Premier League clubs are chasing Feyenoord’s Champions League prima Igor Paixao.

Tottenham, Newcastle and Bournemouth are each keen connected the Brazilian winger, who scored the victor against AC Milan and gave Kyle Walker a torrid clip astatine De Kuip connected Wednesday.

AC Milan's Kyle Walker and Feyenoord's Igor Paixao combat  for the shot  during a shot    match.AFP
Igor Paixao gave Kyle Walker a torrid clip successful the Champions League[/caption]
Igor Paixao of Feyenoord holding the Playstation Player of the Match award.Getty
The Feyenoord winger won the subordinate of the lucifer grant vs AC Milan[/caption]

Paixao bushed Walker aft conscionable 3 minutes earlier firing successful astatine the adjacent station and past continued to torment the England planetary passim the night.

Newcastle and Bournemouth some had scouts successful Rotterdam for the Champions League play-off archetypal leg.

Paixao, 24, has 8 goals and 14 assists crossed Eredivisie and the Champions League this season, with the subordinate keen connected a Premier League determination successful the summer.

Feyenoord are thought to complaint their speedy winger, signed from Brazilian broadside Coritiba successful 2022, astatine £25million and determination was plentifulness of grounds arsenic to wherefore connected Wednesday night.

Not lone did Paixao perpetually bushed Walker, but helium was speedy and assured successful beforehand of goal, hitting the barroom aft opening the scoring.

No subordinate completed much dribbles than the Feyenoord antheral astatine De Kuip, portion nary team-mate had much shots.

Paixao besides won the shot connected 4 occasions and created 2 chances.

In the 2nd half, helium robbed Walker of possession successful the Milan fractional which led to him going adjacent to scoring from the half-way line.

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Touch representation  of Igor Paixao v Milan.

Paixao besides registered an assistance successful Feyenoord’s 3-3 comeback gully with Manchester City earlier this season.

But his extremity past nighttime sealed Walker’s archetypal decision since joining Milan successful January.

The right-back insisted that the nonaccomplishment has not impacted what helium sees arsenic a agleam commencement to beingness successful Italy, but knows they request a effect astatine San Siro adjacent week.

He said: “I’ve been present for 2 weeks. Since I’ve been present it’s been good, this is simply a setback and we person to retrieve archetypal of each successful the title and past successful the instrumentality leg.

“The atmosphere, the assemblage with their passionateness and the content that we volition enactment in: it volition beryllium a antithetic lucifer but besides the attack indispensable beryllium different.

“It is not lone valid for the forwards, we each person to lend more.”

Igor Paixao's 2024-25 Feyenoord play   statistics.
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