Henrikh Mkhitaryan

[Imy]

Man imagine him in our team.

Ah well, onwards

Moses

[Leyton388]

You don't mss what you never had.

[Assassin]

You don't mss what you never had.

Or you don't miss what you couldn't have. As he had agreed with Dortmund yonks ago

[Shaggy]

Lovely 2nd goal at the weekend

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLus_B8sQVM"]Henrikh Mkhitaryan Second Goal ~ Eintracht Frankfurt vs Dortmund 1:2 HD - YouTube[/ame]

[Pablo]

Brilliant goal.

[Tee]

He would have been perfect for us. Still, i am sure we can sign him in the future when we qualify for the CL.

[lickedlollipop]

**** i thought he's not that good -.-

but it's also true that bundesliga is different than PL *captainobvioustotherescue*

[rudedog]

Shocking defending though - there was an opposition player (not the guy marking him) who just stood and watched him run by instead of doubling up on him.

[Shaggy]

Saw the Bundesliga table earlier and noticed Dortmund are 4th and don't have a great points tally.

Mkhitaryan seemed to start really well - had some class games in the CL and looked particularly great against Arsenal - but he looks to have gone right off the boil. 3 league goals this season in 15 games. Not great for around £25m.

Doesn't mean he's **** though obviously. Just might not be the right move. I'd love us to go back in for him in the summer...get him for a lower price...about £18m maybe.

Rodgers said he wanted to add about 20 goals a season to the squad and while Suarez is doing a grand job of adding them all himself, it's clear we need more goalscorers in the squad, particularly from midfield.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/15/germany/2014/01/03/4518050/mkhitaryan-i-have-not-been-good-enough-for-dortmund

Mkhitaryan: I have not been good enough for Dortmund

The midfielder has struggled to live up to the high expectations at BVB so far, but is determined to improve after the winter break

Henrikh Mkhitaryan has admitted that he has yet to replicate the form that earned him a transfer from Shakhtar Donetsk to Borussia Dortmund as he feels he has not been good enough in the first half of the season.

The attacking midfielder, 24, joined BVB in a deal worth €27.5 million, but has netted just three goals in 15 Bundesliga appearances so far after scoring an impressive 25 league goals for the Ukrainian champions last term.

"I think that I have not yet shown what I can do since I moved to Borussia Dortmund. I still have room for improvement," the Armenia international told Kicker.

"The positive thing for me is that I got plenty of chances and created some myself, too. I simply did not do enough with them, though.

"But I am confident that I will do better after the winter break than in the first half of the season. I am very critical of myself and I know that I can do better."

Dortmund resume Bundesliga action at home against Augsburg on January 25. Jurgen Klopp's men currently sit fourth in the table with 32 points from 17 games.

[Mark79]

Had a quick look at his career stats, looks like he started slowly at Shakhtar Donetsk too.
Similar goals ratio for his first 20 odd appearances anyway.

[Norbs]

Isn't it just a case that the Bundesliga is a much better than the Ukranian league and he's bound not to be as productive?

The Premier League is a touch above the Bundesliga too I think and so maybe it's not such a loss

[danperkins]

Isn't it just a case that the Bundesliga is a much better than the Ukranian league and he's bound not to be as productive?

The Premier League is a touch above the Bundesliga too I think and so maybe it's not such a loss

Could be indeed

[Fosterbloke]

If Sterling, Coutinho and Henderson settled down a bit we could get those 20 goals.

[Pablo]

I'd love us to sign him in the Summer. I think it was a major, major blow when we missed out on him this summer. Diego Costa too. I didn't rate him much at the time, but he's since proven he would have been an amazing buy.

[RichC]

It was really good to see in the summer that whilst we didn't necessarily land the players we wanted i.e Mkhitaryan and Costa we were at the very least identifying the right types of players to take us forward.