ACCORDING to various news reports in Russia and the UK, Liverpool Football Club have agreed a fee with Ukrainian Champions, Shakhtar Donetsk, regarding the transfer of three times Armenian Footballer of the Year, Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Russian news outlet Sports Express has reported that a fee of around £25m (€30m) has been agreed between the two clubs, and that Mkhitaryan will be unveiled as a Liverpool player within the next 72 hours, subject to a medical.
Meanwhile, FutbolTV has also reported that Mkhitaryan is set to become a Red, stating that the player will arrive in Liverpool to complete his medical, possibly on Monday, following the arrival of his agent, Italian, Mino Raiola.
Reports had been circulating in Germany over the last few days that Dortmund were keen on taking Mkhitaryan to the Bundesliga, however the reports in Bild appear to have been a re-hashing of an earlier attempt by the Champions League finalists to prize the highly rated attacking midfielder from Shakhtar, their €23m bid having been rejected some time ago. The leaked story looks to have served its purpose though, by prompting Liverpool to act decisively in hammering out a deal good enough to finally land their target.
With personal terms believed to have been, at the very least, discussed, if not already agreed, there would appear to be little remaining which could scupper the proposed deal at this late stage.
With that in mind, it seems more than likely that Henrikh Mkhitaryan will be officially unveiled as a Liverpool player by Wednesday at the very latest.
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Pls br should sign tiago ilori nd left ful bck
This is a great rumour, it’s only russian news paper taking the news and not official in liverpool fc news or website and we started celebrating,BIG rumour.
BR go on and act fast, that’s a good news to have HM
Hopeing the names mentioned come in be exciting to see
Mignolet
Glen agger sakho cissokho
Lucas Stevie mkhitaryan
Couthino Suarez sturridge
Y’all were raving about Sahin this time last year! Muppets.
Pls BR act quickly and sign him(i.e Henrikh Mkhitaryan) now.
Pls BR do fast wil want him to come to anfield henrilk
Guys and gals!! The Indipendent,Mirror, Sun are trying hard to derail this deal.They simply dont want to let Liverpool improve. Always releasing confusing reports of the same news.They already managed to upset on of our great players and make him want to leave. They are so United against us but what are we doing? Argue on everything! So much negativity among us. Me and my fanatical freinds are just going to welcome anyone who signs for LFC..But we will wait for the official anouncement.
Raam, you just listed all manchester based papers, now i wonder why they would want to do a thing like that,mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
BR should had more quality players dat can contest 4 top 4
Ram am with you dear
am fans liverpool this seson liverpol s hi an wel cme with open hand henriky maktaryn nice playe
Is this definite.
henrikh mkhitaryan will be the heart of LFC and will bring much fortune for the club
is this true about mkhitarayan and please dont go for tom ince get burnleys charlie austin better player
Fantastic news finally…next Wanyama!
If it is true what a line up next season esp if we keep suarez bring on 2013-2014 season
good of you roger
I just hope its true
good if it’s true,welcome dude please come and show us what you are capable on doin.YWNA
ave u guys watch him play before.
Yeah hes bleedin deadly