FourFourTwo has ranked Armenia international Henrikh Mkhitaryan 60th in its list of 2016.
“Mkhitaryan’s meagre two starts in 2016/17 – Jose Mourinho being oddly reluctant to play the ÂŁ27m signing – are comfortably outweighed by the playmaker’s phenomenal 2015/16. After all, Mkhitaryan was named Player of the Year by 235 Bundesliga pros surveyed in German magazine Kicker and came third in the official players’ vote. How quickly we forget. How quickly Jose forgets,” the website writes.
The Armenian was reborn under Thomas Tuchel in his final Borussia Dortmund campaign. Mkhitaryan scored or assisted – and this isn’t a typo – 55 goals in 52 games, which is frankly obscene. Operating sometimes behind Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang but more commonly drifting in from the right, Mkhitaryan showed he’s a true raumdeuter, a space investigator, and one who knows where the goal is.
“If that’s not enough, he speaks seven languages fluently and his dad was called Hamlet,” FourFourTwo reminds.