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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Great news if true
I pray he should be our lost alonso and bring the glory days back to lfc. Common liverpudians
I tink d omission of sturidge will be a great 1 cus i believe he can take us dere and reina out,nt a gud 1 even enrique and skrtel shld stay put
he does not even play the same position as Alonso….
next season with such good player we not gonna work alone
Am very happy wif dis new signing of ours. We never walk alone
I just hope that we are in the right parth….. We will never work alone
i am very sure dat we will b in d top four next season..if we are able to sign good and experience players
the presence of mkhitaryan will contribute to our progress. I wish suarez will stay
we do need good players but if the guy is not going to sign lfc leav him be.
dis is gr8. but we have to see how he plays at liverpool coz we had good players coming in but they end up becoming *……babal, veronin, downing, adams etc…. So dont exicited
World class striker comfortable with ball, But unknown to many.will fit to our style.
with this new signing i hope lfc will win d epl next season, & we will never walk alone
I hope liverpool will rise again.we will neva walk alone!
i love dis club.
cant c diss happening but we need a player like this because the players brnden has bought are not world class and are squad players where as this guy is just what we need YNWA
I like the way Tammo thinks. Wait for the picture Mkhitaryan signing in front of Ayre,BR or any LFC officials and splashed on the official website or reliable’ press’.Than we shall believe. You are not walking alone Tammo.
bring him immediately.its long overdue.
Bringin him it’s good 4 livrpol n wil help the team.
He was supposed to be here 2 weeks ago – I don’t see it