ACCORDING to a report from The Daily Mirror, Liverpool’s long time target Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s current club Shakhtar Donetsk have revealed that, although they want a £25.5 million fee for the Armenian, he has the option to break his contract and force a cut price deal to Anfield meaning Liverpool would have to pay £20 million.
Mkhitaryan is reportedly unhappy with the Ukranian outfit, as he is absolutely insistent on plying his trade in one of the most dominant European football leagues and this dispute has culminated in the midfielder not turning up for pre-season training, despite Donetsk issuing daily fines for his absence.
Although a fee was thought to have been already agreed by the clubs, Shakhtar have put a valuation of £25.5 million on Mkhitaryan, but the club’s reluctant chief executive Sergei Palkin has revealed that there is a clause in his contract that could see the midfielder buy himself out of his contract in order to push for a £20 million deal with another club.
Palkin, explaining this option, said: “Mkhitaryan doesn’t have a release clause in his contract, but it does spell out the penalties for unilateral termination of the contract, which is equal to $30m (£19.8m).
“If Mkhitaryan wants to terminate the contract, he must pay Shakhtar $30m and go to a club that he likes.
“If we go in a civilized manner and sell the player, and in doing so he does not break the contract, the value we place on him is 30million euros (£25.5m).”
Mkhitaryan has not broken his contract yet, as he is waiting for Liverpool’s next approach, and will wait until the Reds and Donetsk come to an agreement before cutting ties with the club.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfers-henrikh-mkhitaryan-can-2022236
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hrmmmmm give mhkatryan the 20mil. problem solved
I hope Liverpool doesn’t wait too long to sign Henrik,we want quality in midfield
Refuses to go to training cos he wants out !. Doesnt sound like a decent character .do we want someone like that at our club
Would you rather someone who will do anything to come to our club ?or someone forced to make the move ? Its hard enough getting world class players to come without CL as it is, so if he goes on strike to achieve his goals and dreams with LFC then that’s fine by me.
Agreed …
Totally agree with you Sash.
Well said sash!!! I agree with u 100% mate…..don’t think liverpool will allow him to buy out his contract if he does sign for us so it’s fine by me as well.
well said these are the players who will perform 200% for the team
Good point Mark. He might do the same to us when a CL team comes calling
If truly, he’s pulling all these stunts to come to LFC, I see no reason why LFC should seat back and reduce their pace in signing him…and I see no reason why an LFC fan should judge him based on his being purposely absent from training, he wants the move, that’s enough sign already!!
is he our top target? what are we waiting for?we should not wait for that situation.
wat re we waitin for,br go get diz guy and get game started
Liverpool has activated the clause which is 20mil they want more
I say you are either buying or not ,if you are why wait ,if not remove this rumours u are irritating me you will give pple ulcers liverpool for lyfe
Just get the damn guy
dont dull me,plz get dis guy 4 us bcos if u turn around u go c clubs monitoring d situation nw
we should have concluded this deal a long time ago before its to late…am begining to doubt the American owner’s ability to buy quality players
les do it dis way next season.1.mignolet—2.johnson–37.skrkel–5.agger–3.enrique–21.lucas–8.captain fantastic–11.mkhitaryan–10.coutinho–9.aspas–7.super star suarez
LFC has not given its reason for their lacklustre approach on Mkhitaryans issue,but i seriously doubt LFC getting him.
LFC pls go for dis player mkhitaryan love liverpool
out
reina 10
skrtel 12
borini 8
henderson 15
shelvey 6
carroll 15
spearing 3
assaidi 4
downing 8
coates 4
suarez 40
in
toure free
mignolet 10
alberto 8
aspas 8
mkhitiryan 25
eriksen 18
muriel 20
alderweireld 8
wanyama 14
—————-mignolet———————
kelly—-alderweireld—–agger—-jonson
—————–wanyama——————
—-gerrard—————-eriksen———
mkhitiryan———muriel——–coutinho
What drugs are you taking man ? we dont have c/l football to get these top stars anymore.
Let me know what your taking i will have 2 grms of you it seems to be good stuff 😉
Getting pissed over this already. Too much rumours!…
lfc pls sign dis guy
Guy, dnt J?????U????????????????? bring out words from ur belly….common, be realistic when typing. How on earth would u sell Borini and Hendo? Dose guys are d future of our great club. Selling Shelvy is a terrible mistake which I pray it doesn’t come back 2 hunt us…..Untill Suarez puts in a transfer request, he is our best shot 4 d TITLE. We have d squad 4 dat.
LFC Henrichk is the main Man to go for now pls! Bcos this guy luv liverpool.
Tied of this doodling approach by LFC. Why can’t they just make up their minds about a real quality player and buy without wasting time. They end up getting rubbish and give us rubbish performance. You got to watch LFC playing with a bottle of blood pressure tablets on your side all the time!!! Buy the damn player, he is good we all know that.