The director of football tells Nick Ames about Mudryk’s move, about club the president’s donation to help Ukraine and why he feels let down by Fifa
“If there was no war, the price would have been much higher,” he says. “Misha has shown the whole world that he is one of the best players in that position. Look at what he did: we lost 14 players and there, at 21 years old, he stepped up to take a huge responsibility and be one of Shakhtar’s leaders during Russia’s aggression. He had an amazing chance and he took it.”
“I can’t speak about Arsenal. I had one friendly coffee with Oleksandr Zinchenko and we talked about Mudryk, but in the end it’s simple: they had to pay what our club president wanted. The rest of us were just here to help negotiations and make everyone happy. Chelsea will see that they’ve got an amazing person and player.”
“The whole world is helping Ukraine but Fifa doesn’t help its football,” he says. “It’s their duty and they do nothing.” Shakhtar have long honed a strategy of signing players from abroad and later doing brisk, often hard-nosed, trade with Europe’s biggest clubs; they had been relying on that to continue during a war that savaged their income streams and left them playing behind closed doors.
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