Shakhtar Donetsk Sporting Director Darijo Srna has insisted Mykhailo Mudryk made the decision to opt for Chelsea over Arsenal in the last transfer window.
The Ukrainian was on Arsenal’s radar for much of the first half of this season and repeatedly flirted with the idea of moving to the Emirates.
Arsenal had more than enough time to add him to their squad. However, they continued to delay and never met his former club’s demands.
Chelsea started talking to the Ukrainians and sealed the deal in a matter of days and he moved to Arsenal’s London rivals.
It was a shocking transfer to most fans and an embarrassing outcome for the Gunners, who missed out on a quality player.
However, Srna insists the winger made the decision himself. He tells Football Ramble:
“Regarding the transfer proposal, the price was €100million (£88m), €70million plus €30million.
“Arsenal were in love with Mudryk, but Chelsea were more concrete and were more ready to buy him.
“With respect to Arsenal, in the end it was the decision of Mudryk because Chelsea paid what we wanted and we made an agreement with Chelsea he said he wants to go to Chelsea, it’s simple.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
It is sad we missed out on Mudryk after being interested in a move for him for so long and we will have to deal with watching him dazzle at another London club.
Mudryk has struggled so far and it could have been a different case if he moved to the Emirates, but we added Leandro Trossard to the group and should trust the Belgian to impress.
CALLING ALL ARSENAL FANS! Anyone who would like to contribute an Article or Video opinion piece on JustArsenal, please contact us through this link…
Lionesses boss Sarina Wiegman interviewed after a Leah Williamson double helps England Women win the Arnold Clark Cup in style with 6-1 win over Belgium to make it 3 wins out of 3.
Please enjoy, watch and subscribe to JustArsenalVids
Biggest bullet we had ever dodged.
Look at the end of the day he choose Chelsea, no hard feelings ,that’s what happens when competitive clubs who want his signature,and one goes over the score and offers him the world and that’s what Chelsea did, but hey we’re having the last laugh as were top and with multi millions Chelsea have spent the still can’t get a win, look at the bench omg how are the going to keep all those millionaire bench warmers happy and keep a team on a role and settled to a regular team without another player or players on the bench spitting the dummy, all I can say is bye bye Graeme potter, and to be honest you could see it coming really,look at the talent potters been given and he can’t keep them all happy , bye bye potter what a situation and now there talking of Neymar coming to Chelsea as well as there ex manager Thomas Tuchel ,WHAT A CHEAK
Shakhtar never accepted Arsenal’s bid so how did he reject Arsenal. Also one of there senior board members said we wouldn’t sell Mudryk to Arsenal. Apparently he is unhappy at Chelsea, so how eager was he to join Chelsea is debatable
I’m not sure that every cloud has a silver lining, but it’s got the hallmarks of looking that way.
Chelsea’s signing of Mudryk on a 8 year long contract falls under the high-risk-high-reward type of investment. Great if it comes off but you are stuck with an expensive resource if it doesn’t.
Mudryk hasn’t started well but gooners suggesting that he is unhappy as he actually wanted to be at Arsenal is blind wishful thinking.
From information received am told the kid is unhappy, he has shown nothing since that twenty minutes introduction on his debut.
It is the performance against Mudryk by one of our own Maitland Niles, that reminds me he’s still around and may warrant a next bite of the cherry.
But Sue P is right the miss out on Mudryk has the Hallmark of clouds with silver lining.
We have seen it before on Fernando Torres,Deco,Falcao,Lukaku& others they come when they’re hot but Chelsea frooze them so it’s not knew on Mudryk at Chelsea he chose awrong club at the end of the day he will blame himself for awrong decision…
Gone, gone gone. I know it will come back to haunt us because you can see the class in the glimpses he’s shown. It won’t be long before he gets it all together and breaks opposing team’s hearts. Not this season,and not against Arsenal next time round, I hope.
And now he’s sitting on Chelsea’s bench looking miserable 😢
All things work together for a purpose. I trust MA and Edu. They played at Arsenal, and they know and understand how it feels to be a Gunner. We always forget about how they feel and focus on our feelings. I said this before, and I am saying it again, Arsenal doesn’t believe on one super star.
Isn’t that the same person who said we made same offer as Chelsea but opted for Chelsea’s offer because it had more realistic addons?? How then can Mudryk reject Arsenal if the offer hasn’t been accepted? At this point its beginning to seem like Shakhtar are just trying to remain relevant because we already moved on and Mudryk is having the time of his life at his “chosen” club .
A fat lie!
The boy wanted Arsenal. The threat of freezing him out of the Shaktar team forced him to do the will of the club’s management.
I think he did not understand Arsenal project properly. Mudryk, I think was misinformed by his father who happened to be his agent.
My understanding is that he is still a child who really wanted to be advised.
WHO CARES???? You got your money, the chavs got their player, and everyone’s moved on swiftly though Mudryk has been sulky.
I’ve been a fan of mudryk since arsenal started a transfer plan for the player. But moving to Chelsea wasn’t the player choice but the club decision because of the high bid they received from Chelsea,
I hope he bounce back to is form quickly
This is what happens when you sleep with bridesmaid on wedding day…