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    Mkhitaryan's mosaic or what happened next when...

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/723572/mkhitaryan%E2%80%99s-mosaic-or-what-happened-next-when-.html
    12:16, 22 June, 2013


    YEREVAN, JUNE 22, ARMENPRESS: The first picture of the Henrikh
    Mkhitaryan's mosaic appeared when the midfielder of the Armenian
    National Football team and Shakhtar Donetsk announced that he would do
    everything to move to a new club in summer. The
    promise of Henrikh Mkhitaryan was not accepted unequivocally neither
    by the Armenian nor the Ukrainian football fans and other
    parties.

    This became the axis, around which authoritative and nonauthoritative
    mass media representatives touched upon this issue from different
    sides,
    expressing their wishes and suppositions concerning the future of the
    Armenian footballer. Some international periodicals were sending
    Mkhitaryan
    to Spain, some - to England or Germany. Finally, the Football Club of
    Liverpool was left upon the surface of the water.

    The British The Telegraph was the first to publish that the Manager of
    Liverpool Brendan Rodgers identified Mkhitaryan as his flagship
    signing for the summer and tabled a bid which is believed to have
    triggered a release clause inserted into the 24-year-old's contract by
    the Ukrainian champions.
    The rumors got double acceleration after the World Cup qualifying
    round's match of Armenia-Denmark. The fourth goal stroked by Henrikh
    Mkhitaryan added to the chances of the footballer of appearing in the
    Liverpool Club.

    On this ocassion HITC sport published: `Liverpool was last week linked
    with a sensational £22 million bid for Henrikh Mkhitaryan, a prolific
    Shakhtar Donetsk attacker. He is by far the most valuable football
    player ever to come out of Armenia, and this evening he played a part
    in an amazing result for his country. Armenia took on major
    championship regulars Denmark away from home in their World Cup
    qualifying group, and notched up an astounding 4-0 victory. It takes
    the country above the Danes in the group, but they are still eight
    points behind the leader Italy. Mkhitaryan described as a target for Liverpool'.

    The Guardian: `Liverpool has identified Shakhtar Donetsk's Henrikh
    Mkhitaryan as a leading transfer target for the summer and is not
    deterred by the £22 million price tag on one of the most coveted
    players in European football. The Armenia's three-time player of the
    year was a priority signing for the Liverpool manager, Brendan
    Rodgers, before Luis Suárez began pushing for the move that could
    transform the club's transfer strategy and budget. The Fenway Sports
    Group, the Liverpool's owners are prepared to sanction a big money
    move for Mkhitaryan without a deal in place for Suarez'.

    The days passed and the news around Mkhitaryan got more heated.
    ITAR-TASS wrote: `The midfielder of Shakhtar Donetsk and the
    Armenian National Football team Henrikh Mkhitaryan during the coming
    days will pass medical examination in the English Liverpool.
    `Henrikh Mkhitaryan will urgently leave for England. Liverpool will
    officially announce about the contract with Mkhitaryan by the end of
    the
    week. The transfer sum for the best Ukrainian attacker will make about
    30 million EURO'. Even the Chief Coach of Shakhtar Donetsk
    Mircea Lucescu did not reject the news of searching a footballer to
    substitute Mkhitaryan.

    By the `prophetic prediction' of some periodicals Henrikh Mkhitaryan
    left for Moscow to leave for London from there or he was seen in
    Vienna with his mother and sister.

    But the first to pour cold shower on all the versions was the
    Executive Director of Shakhtar Donetsk Sergey Palkin, who wrote in one
    of the
    social networks that Mkhitaryan will join the Pitmen on June 23.

    Then the British periodicals titled their articles
    `Liverpool-Mkhitaryan negotiations stopped', writing that the
    negotiations between the
    midfielder of the Armenian National Football team Henrikh Mkhitaryan
    and the British FC Liverpool have been stopped because of the
    transfer rights of the football player. And here the doors of the
    `commercial kitchen' open...

    It was found out that the transfer rights of the Armenian footballer
    do not fully belong to Shakhtar. The Head of the Football Federation
    of
    Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan announced that 25% of the Henrikh
    Mkhitaryan's transfer belong to Pyunik Club and the other 25% - to the
    Director of Metalurg Donetsk Oleg Lazarian. And here the colors of
    the mosaic of the talented Armenian footballer's beautiful play
    change.

    It is expected that everything will become clear on Sunday, June 23,
    when we know if Mkhitaryan joined the Shakhtar team in Austria or
    not.

    As they say, everything is still ahead.

    Author - Varvara Hayrapetyan

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