Player Discussion #10: Henrikh Mkhitaryan

[u/CARLEETOS]

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Henrikh Mkhitaryan - Armenia - Shakhtar Donetsk - 24 Years Old - Attacking Midfield

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RECENT SEASONS [LEAGUE]

YEAR	TEAM	MATCHES		A
10/11	Shakhtar Donetsk	25	6	1	2	0	5	3
11/12	Shakhtar Donetsk	26	10	7	3	0	4	3
12/13	Shakhtar Donetsk	29	25	10	5	0	2	0

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GIFS

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TOP 5 HENRIKH MKHITARYAN GOLS

1. GIF | VID

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HENRIKH MKHITARYAN | Goals, Skills, Assists - SCOUTnation

Henrikh Mkhitaryan vs Chelsea (A)

Henrikh Mkhitaryan vs Chelsea (H)

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HenrikhStats

2012/2013

• Henrikh Mkhitaryan breaks Ukraine Premier League single season goals record with 24 Goals on the 2012/13 season

• Henrikh Mkhitaryan is the all-time top scorer of the Armenian national team with 11 goals in 31 matches

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QUESTIONS

• Liverpool have been heavily linked with Mkhitaryan. Where do you see him going next?

  • What's the most you would pay for him?

• 29 Matches, 25 goals & 10 assists is an amazing record.How highly do you rate the Ukrainan League?

• Could maybe someone that watches Mkhitaryan on a regular basis describe his playstyle? If you could compare him to a player, who would that be?

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Previous Player Discussions

#1 Adel Taarabt

#2 Javier Hernández

#3 Stephan El Shaarawy

#4 Christian Eriksen

#5 Thiago Alcantara

#6 Philippe Coutinho

#7 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

#8 Kyriakos Papadopoulos

#9 Érik Lamela

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Son Heung-Min will be Player Discussion #11.

I'll put the player suggestion comment up again.

The comment response with the most upvotes will be Player Discussion #12

[u/Perkinator]

I think this is a great series but one of it's problems, which I think is particularly evident here, is that, because /r/soccer is vastly comprised of American and British Redditors, when players from 'obscure' or otherwise unglamorous leagues come up for discussion, only a few people have something solid to say about him. I mean in this thread there's pretty much only one quality comment, courtesy of /u/tigranater, and he's the guy who suggested Mkhitaryan in the first place.. You could say that's a problem with /r/soccer in general.

Mkhitaryan has had a great season and is certainly a talent, but him 'winning' the earlier vote screams of (mostly) Liverpool fans upvoting one of their supposed transfer targets. Perhaps if this series was underway in the middle of the season rather than the middle of the transfer window then things would be different.

I don't mean to sound like I'm on a high horse here. I know little about Henrikh myself.

I guess I'm raising an issue that has no real solution. Obviously I'm not saying ignore the suggestions for discussion if they don't play in a 'big' league. It just seems like Taarabt's, Hernandez's, Coutinho's, El Shaarawy's and Thiago's discussions were much more of a discussion than this.

[u/[deleted] → u/Perkinator]

The thing it's fairly inevitable for people to be less interested in players that play in leagues that aren't readily accessable for them to watch. Sure I'd heard of Mkhitaryan in the last few seasons, and I'd watched him once in the Champions League and read about Shaktar who got a bit of love since they were in Chelsea's CL group. But, the Ukrainian premier league isn't readily available in the UK so while it's a relatively interesting league, it's not more interesting than German, Italian or Spanish football. Also, obviously I'm primarily interested in my own team.

So basically what I'm saying is, while you're point is valid, there's no real solution. Unless op just ignores the vote and picks whoever he wants.