Given that Shakhtar Donetsk sporting director Darijo Srna has stated his club rejected a €30million offer from Everton for Mykhaylo Mudryk, just what might have attracted the Blues to the Ukrainian winger? Srna told CBS Sports : “We received an offer of €30million [from Everton] and when our president doesn’t sell a player for €30million, especially in such difficult times, he is sending a message to everyone that he wants to progress in the Champions League and to win the championship.
“Mudryk is a serious talent. After Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Jr, he’s the best player in Europe in his position. If someone wants to buy Mudryk they must spend a lot, a lot, a lot of money and respect our club and our president.”
That’s quite the claim but Mudryk, born in 2001 like existing Everton prospects Anthony Gordon, Amadou Onana, Nathan Patterson and their latest recruit James Garner, has started the new season in scintillating form on the big stage since the transfer window closed. He scored his first Champions League goal in Shakhtar’s 4-1 win at RB Leipzig on September 6 and followed that up with another strike in their 1-1 ‘home’ draw with Celtic in the competition on Wednesday, played in Warsaw’s Polish Army Stadium because of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
