Arsenal midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan might have become a Premier League player several years before he joined Manchester United in 2016, according to sensational claims by his former agent Dimitry Seluk.
Speaking to These Football Times (via men's lifestyle website Joe), Seluk claimed his former client could have joined Liverpool instead of Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund, whom he joined in 2013:
"If we hadn’t parted ways with Henrikh, he would have been a Liverpool player."
Seluk represented the Armenia international when he was still playing for little-known Ukranian side Metaluruh Donetsk.
However, according to the agent, his working relationship with Mkhitaryan became untenable after Seluk fell out with Metaluruh owner Oleg Mkrtchyan - and because the agent was involved in a dispute with the Armenian FA, whose employees included Mkhitaryan's mother:
"I had a conflict with Mkrtchyan who sold another one of my clients, Aras Özbiliz, to Spartak Moscow for €8m but made it look like it was €2m.