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DORTMUND FINALISE MKHITARYAN DEAL
Soccerway
July 9 2013
Borussia Dortmund have completed the signing of Shakhtar Donetsk
attacker Henrikh Mkhitaryan on a four-year deal.
The two clubs agreed a fee on Monday, with personal terms still to
be settled between the Bundesliga runners-up and Mkhitaryan.
But a deal has now been signed and the Armenia international will
wear the number 10 shirt vacated by Mario Goetze, who moved to Bayern
Munich at the end of last season.
Mkhitaryan scored a Ukrainian Premier League record of 25 goals in
29 games last term as Shakhtar cruised to their fourth consecutive
league title, 13 points clear of second-placed Metalist Kharkiv.
They also reached the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, where
they were dumped out by eventual finalists Dortmund, losing 3-0 at
the Signal Iduna Park after a 2-2 draw in Ukraine.
The Armenian signed for Shakhtar in 2010 after an impressive debut
season in Ukraine with Metalurg Donetsk and has gone on to net 47
times in 108 games.
Mkhitaryan, who was also heavily linked with a move to Premier League
outfit Liverpool, is likely to be Dortmund's last major addition of the
off-season, with the club's holding company admitting on Monday that a
~@50 million transfer budget had been largely exhausted by the signings
of Mkhitaryan, Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The statement read: "Borussia Dortmund has finalised its essential
transfer activities in the summer transfer period for the season
2013-14.
"In the course of the ordinary execution of these transfers, Borussia
Dortmund will have almost spent the available investment budget in
the amount of ~@50 million."
Dortmund could be back in the market, however, with striker Robert
Lewandowski strongly linked with an imminent move from the club.
The club will be hoping that they can stave off prolonged interest
from Bayern for the Pole, who manager Juergen Klopp admitted over
the weekend is likely to move to the Bavarian club in 2014 when his
Dortmund contract expires.
http://ca.soccerway.com/news/2013/July/09/dortmund-finalise-mkhitaryan-deal/n234437/
Soccerway
July 9 2013
Borussia Dortmund have completed the signing of Shakhtar Donetsk
attacker Henrikh Mkhitaryan on a four-year deal.
The two clubs agreed a fee on Monday, with personal terms still to
be settled between the Bundesliga runners-up and Mkhitaryan.
But a deal has now been signed and the Armenia international will
wear the number 10 shirt vacated by Mario Goetze, who moved to Bayern
Munich at the end of last season.
Mkhitaryan scored a Ukrainian Premier League record of 25 goals in
29 games last term as Shakhtar cruised to their fourth consecutive
league title, 13 points clear of second-placed Metalist Kharkiv.
They also reached the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League, where
they were dumped out by eventual finalists Dortmund, losing 3-0 at
the Signal Iduna Park after a 2-2 draw in Ukraine.
The Armenian signed for Shakhtar in 2010 after an impressive debut
season in Ukraine with Metalurg Donetsk and has gone on to net 47
times in 108 games.
Mkhitaryan, who was also heavily linked with a move to Premier League
outfit Liverpool, is likely to be Dortmund's last major addition of the
off-season, with the club's holding company admitting on Monday that a
~@50 million transfer budget had been largely exhausted by the signings
of Mkhitaryan, Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The statement read: "Borussia Dortmund has finalised its essential
transfer activities in the summer transfer period for the season
2013-14.
"In the course of the ordinary execution of these transfers, Borussia
Dortmund will have almost spent the available investment budget in
the amount of ~@50 million."
Dortmund could be back in the market, however, with striker Robert
Lewandowski strongly linked with an imminent move from the club.
The club will be hoping that they can stave off prolonged interest
from Bayern for the Pole, who manager Juergen Klopp admitted over
the weekend is likely to move to the Bavarian club in 2014 when his
Dortmund contract expires.
http://ca.soccerway.com/news/2013/July/09/dortmund-finalise-mkhitaryan-deal/n234437/