Mudryk drops biggest Arsenal transfer hint yet

FT Desk

• 1 Dec 2022 11:20 GMT
• 5 min read

Mykhaylo Mudryk, nicknamed the "Ukrainian Neymar", has dropped the biggest hint yet that he will join Arsenal from Shakhtar Donetsk in the coming months.

Mudryk came close to joining Arsenal in the summer but a move failed to materialise and he instead stayed at Shakhtar, for whom he has shone this season.

Mudryk has 10 goals and eight assists in 18 games in all competitions, but it is in the Champions League where he has really come to the fore, with three goals and two assists at European football's top table.

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Shakhtar have previously claimed that Mudryk is worth more than €100 million, with their sporting director Dario Srna saying he was "the best player in Europe in his position behind Mbappe, Neymar and Vinicius," but it is understood they would accept close to half that fee.

Mudryk response

There is little question Mudryk himself wants the move, and he has now liked a post on Instagram imagining him as one of Arsenal's attacking options.

The aftvmedia account posted pictures of Arsenal trio Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Emile Smith Rowe, either side of Mudryk playing for Shakhtar kit, to which Arsenal fan Patrick Timmons posted: "Saka, Martinelli, Mudryk & Smith Rowe as winger options. All 22 or younger. Yes please."

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Mudryk, as well as more than 20,000 others, liked the post, fuelling the fire that a move to the Emirates could be on the horizon.

Mudryk would be the second Ukrainian at Arsenal following Oleksandr Zinchenko's €35m arrival from Manchester City in July. Mudryk told Zinchenko's journalist wife Vlada Sedan recently that he wanted to join Arsenal.

"From a purely hypothetical perspective if there was the option of being a bench player for Real Madrid or a starter for Arsenal, I'd probably choose Arsenal," he said.

Arsenal are currently top of the Premier League, five points clear of champions City.