Henrikh Mkhitaryan signs for Dortmund

[sidford]

Jan Aage Flortoft, remember him?, has tweeted that he's turned us & pool down & is closer to signing for Dortmund. Jan is very good with German info so would believe it.

 

[Bware]

Jan Aage Flortoft, remember him?, has tweeted that he's turned us & pool down & is closer to signing for Dortmund. Jan is very good with German info so would believe it.

He was quoting the article in The Independent

"Mkhitaryan has turned Liverpool and Tottenham down (Independendt)
Dortmund getting closer signing him. Clubs not yet agree fee"

 

[voxy28]

Well to ex IMO... With the money we get Honda and some left for a left winger.

 

[mw828]

Jan Aage Flortoft, remember him?, has tweeted that he's turned us & pool down & is closer to signing for Dortmund. Jan is very good with German info so would believe it.

I'd probably settle for him going to Dortmund. Don't think we are that seriously in for him and don't want him going to the scousers.

 

[Dharmabum]

Seem like he's not bad of a singer .... so Levy/Spurs may be able make some extra cash from his song talent should he sign

 

[yido-1989]

Hope we dont sign him...too much money would prefer Bernard, i feel he'd fit right in at spurs... or if not him maybe Alan Dzagoev

 

[ItsBoris]

That's actually not true.

For Shakhtar he played in the hole. Taras Stepanenko/Tomas Hubschman played alongside Fernandinho in the holding 2 in Shakhtar's preferred 4-2-3-1 formation to give them a strong backbone with more defensive-minded holding midfielders.

For Shakthar he does drop deeper to receive the ball and he is the "playmaker" for Shaktar, but to say he played in the deep central midfield role in their Champions League matches isn't true.

Now, for Armenia he routinely will play deeper. He often drops very deep into midfield so that he can be the linchpin on the counter. But, he isn't rigid where he lines up for Armenia, either. I'm not sure you could say he's the type of player you peg into a single position on the pitch. He's got a wide array of skills from different areas on the pitch and he should fit in well at Liverpool with how fluid your guys' attack is.

Do you think he could play as a wide forward?

 

[Snarfalicious]

Do you think he could play as a wide forward?

I think he could, but it might be more of like a Siggy transition. Good goal scorer playing through the middle then switches out wide. If we wanted him to play in the front 3, I think he would best be suited as a False 9. But, I think he could given his versatility and he does have more pace than Siggy which would ease the transition.

Personally, I'd love to see him playing as the most advanced midfielder, but that would mean having a guy like Dembele or Paulinho on the bench, which I don't think we'd be okay with given what they have cost the club. Or, we could keep the 4-2-3-1 and have Sandro/Dembele/Paulinho rotating in the holding 2 and play Mkhitaryan/Holtby in the hole, etc.

I'm a big fan of Mkitaryan, but I just don't see the fit. He'd either force someone out that we paid big money for (in our eyes), he'd need to play in a position that isn't his strongest or AVB would need to change his signature 4-3-3 to adopt a False 9 look.

 

[leray]

AVB likes fluidity in midfield and in attack. I think he thinks that the best way for playing is having no focal points for opposition. Attacking line Mkhitaryan-Villa-Bale could change in various ways thus making it very hard for any defence to mark, to tackle or to intercept the ball.
It could be a way that Andre sees it, but I think that all the Mkhitaryan talk is because his agent wants to squeeze as much as possible from the deal or Levy wants to make Henrik out of reach for Liverpool and pass afterwards.

 

[mill]

AVB likes fluidity in midfield and in attack. I think he thinks that the best way for playing is having no focal points for opposition. Attacking line Mkhitaryan-Villa-Bale could change in various ways thus making it very hard for any defence to mark, to tackle or to intercept the ball.
It could be a way that Andre sees it, but I think that all the Mkhitaryan talk is because his agent wants to squeeze as much as possible from the deal or Levy wants to make Henrik out of reach for Liverpool and pass afterwards.

All well and good but where did Falcao fit into that?

 

[leray]

All well and good but where did Falcao fit into that?

True that, just making a hypothesis.

 

[mill]

True that, just making a hypothesis.

Just guess work myself but it's seems to be barca's way the false 9 approach, I always got the impression avb's style is more direct than that. Paulinho added to an already physically imposing midfield opposite to their lightweight midfield being an example of that, just opinion though. I know we seem to look to play a possession game under avb but I do think it's different from the barca style

 

[Gedson100]

It's weird, i'd be astounded if we or Dortmund stumped up £25m on the table & I even think Liverplol are beyond that level of wanton stupidity now, aren't they?

 

[CowInAComa]

are we really after this bloke?

I suspect this transfer rumour has come from the combined hive mind of thousands of paranoid Liverpool fans who believe we stalk their transfer targets - and some hack has picked up the spreading panic across the forums and cobbled a story together.

 

[Danners9]

Piss off Lucescu. From the BBC Gossip page, I believe the original story is in the Mirror (which automatically makes it a lie)


Liverpool's pursuit of Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has not gone down well with Shakhtar boss Mircea Lucescu. Lucescu said: "I can understand the urge to leave if he has a chance to go to a club that surpasses Shakhtar, like Barcelona or Real Madrid, but not many clubs are beyond our level - not clubs like Liverpool or Tottenham."

 

[matthew.absurdum]

Piss off Lucescu. From the BBC Gossip page, I believe the original story is in the Mirror (which automatically makes it a lie)


Liverpool's pursuit of Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has not gone down well with Shakhtar boss Mircea Lucescu. Lucescu said: "I can understand the urge to leave if he has a chance to go to a club that surpasses Shakhtar, like Barcelona or Real Madrid, but not many clubs are beyond our level - not clubs like Liverpool or Tottenham."

Every club like to use Barcelona or Real Madrid to push up a player's price

 

[voxy28]

wow this dude transfer took up so much spaces in the internet... so many deluded LFC fans.

but sources at Anfield insist their main transfer deal of the summer is still some way from completion, as difficult talks with his THREE owners proceed painfully slowly.​

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3 owners means this one is way too complex unless you just pay everyone off.... I think the final sum would be 27M incl agent fee.​

 

[ClintEastwould]

Piss off Lucescu. From the BBC Gossip page, I believe the original story is in the Mirror (which automatically makes it a lie)


Liverpool's pursuit of Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has not gone down well with Shakhtar boss Mircea Lucescu. Lucescu said: "I can understand the urge to leave if he has a chance to go to a club that surpasses Shakhtar, like Barcelona or Real Madrid, but not many clubs are beyond our level - not clubs like Liverpool or Tottenham."

Give me a break. even newcastle are a bigger club than shaktar

 

[Danners9]

Give me a break. even newcastle are a bigger club than shaktar

they have succeeded by throwing money at Brazilian clubs and exploiting the lax labor laws regarding foreign players.

Nothing wrong with that, why the hell else would anyone go to Donetsk, but at least don't act like a nob about it and put others down.

 

[Toela65]

It was Liverpools scouts who observed and reported that Mkhitaryan played a more balanced and slightly deeper role in the CL rather than in the hole as an out and out 10.

Forgive my bluntness but I am going to take their word on it rather than anyone on this, or other, forums since they have been watching for around 2 years now.

Shaktar are doing what Shaktar do trying to squeeze every penny out by leaking stuff about clubs etc but Mkhitaryan's stance is no other club than LFC which us causing Shaktar and their Manager considerable consternation.

He is still in Armenia as the deal between us and his 3 owners continue to drag out. Very boring this now. Liverpool have the cash to get him but they won't pay what they believe is over his value (more than 25m).

Aah just finished this post and seen ESPN is now reporting similar details on Twitter.