{"id":20713,"date":"2013-06-30T11:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=20713"},"modified":"2013-06-30T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:19:01","slug":"tottenham-enter-race-for-mkhitaryan-as-liverpool-face-fight-to-land-20m-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=20713","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham enter race for Mkhitaryan as Liverpool face fight to land \u00a320m midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mkhitaryan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20711\" alt=\"mkhitaryan\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mkhitaryan.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mkhitaryan.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mkhitaryan-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mkhitaryan-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTottenham are poised to hijack Liverpool&#8217;s \u00a320million move for Shakhtar Donetsk playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan.<\/p>\n<p>Anfield boss Brendan Rodgers looked to be pole position to land the talented attacking midfielder, but Spurs have now entered the race to land the Armenia international.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood Mkhitaryan&#8217;s advisors have held initial talks with Tottenham chiefs regarding a possible move to White Hart Lane next season.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs are currently focused on completing a \u00a317million move for Corinthians midfielder Paulinho, who is expected rubber-stamp his switch after Sunday&#8217;s Confederations Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>But once the Brazil international&#8217;s move is over the line, Tottenham will look to make progress on other targets &#8211; with Mkhitaryan one of the options being considered.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sportsmail <\/i>revealed this week how Champions League finalists Borussia Dortmund made a \u00a319.5million offer for the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>But Shakthar insist they want at least \u00a325million for the player, who has also interested Chelsea and Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham are poised to hijack Liverpool&#8217;s \u00a320million move for Shakhtar Donetsk playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Anfield&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,224,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-news","category-sport","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}