According to various reports Steve Rowley has urged Wenger to sign this guy. He plays for Shakhtar Donetsk at the moment. Anyone know anything about him? Wiki says that he's Armenian. I remember him vaguely playing against us last season. I think he was the one who chipped through a great throughball for Eduardo.

Mandatory youtube clip:

Looks to have good technique. Better than most of what we saw last night

he takes players on and can pass well. better than a lot of what we've seen in recent weeks (one, the other or neither)

EDIT: also a great first touch

looks decent, i'm not blown away.

Anyone else getting a similar to this or the biglia one as ya did with the Sagna/koscielny transfers

Fortunately wayne bridge seems too obvious for wenger

I cant see us signing a midfielder any time soon to be honest.

What about an attacking midfielder who can play wide?

Maybe, guess it depends on their characteristics.

Tbh, the more I think about it, the more I think that if/when we do look to sign a new forward or wide player we really need to make sure they're good pro's who desperately want to play for us. We cant go back to the Nasri, Cesc, Adebayor, Gallas era of players who think and act as if they are doing us a favour by staying at the club. We seem to have a decent thing going at the minute spirit wise, but all it takes is one arrogant prima donna to ruin it all.

An Armenian player at Arsenal? What the hell is going on? 😆

He's a good player, excellent technique and a good passer. He was their best player when Shakhtar played us last season. Not sure he's good enough for us though. Definitely the best Armenian player around but that's not saying much.

He is a better footballer than Ramsey at this moment, that's for sure. Most of the time he plays further back though so I don't see where he would fit in.

Hmmm, looks fairly talented but seems like he's afforded a lot more time and space in Russia. Like Gervinho, I'd expect him to struggle a bit with that transition although unlike him, Mkhitariyan's got better technique to adapt.

Broken record alert! 😉

Can't help but feel that if we were to go for him, it'd be another bargain bin buy of which fewer and fewer are paying off these days. It's like the queen shopping at Asda...

Donetsk is in the Ukraine.

Shakhtar is loaded, I don't see why they would sell cheaply. Wouldn't be a bargain at all.

Embarrassing as I actually know that. Oh well, tomatoe, tomatoe...

Thought you were taking the piss to be honest 😛

Johan Cruijff used to call Shevchenko 'that Russian' when he was still a pundit on Dutch TV 😆

and yugoslavia's gonna be tough to beat at the euros!

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