10798 - FC Shakhtar Donetsk

[Karim Benzema 317]

FC Shakhtar Donetsk

Coach Mircea Lucescu

Chairman Rinat Akhmetov

Founded 24 May 1936

Stadium Donbass Arena

Squad

// GOALKEEPERS

- Rustam Khudzhamov

- Andriy Pyatov

- Yuriy Virt

- Artem Tetenko

// DEFENDERS

- Tomáš Hübschman

- Oleksandr Kucher

- Vyacheslav Shevchuk

- Vasyl Kobin

- Răzvan Raţ

- Dmytro Chygrynskiy

- Mykola Ischenko

- Darijo Srna (C)

- Oleksandr Chyzhov

- Sergiy Kryvtsov

- Yaroslav Rakitskiy

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// MIDFIELDERS

- Fernandinho

- Jádson

- Willian

- Taras Stepanenko

- Oleksiy Gai

- Douglas Costa

- Henrikh Mkhitaryan

- Alex Teixeira

- Vitaliy Vitsenets

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// FORWARDS

- Marcelo Moreno

- Eduardo

- Luiz Adriano

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[Karim Benzema 317]

10798 - FC Shakhtar Donetsk

Shakhtar lodge bid for Neymar

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Shakhtar Donetsk have made an approach for Santos forward Neymar and face fierce competition for his signature. They have also targeted JUCILEI, Silva and TARDELLI, Diego from Anzhi. Roberto Carlos could also sign but the left back is now 37 and is looking past his best at the moment.

The offer is to be around £6 million plus Marcelo Moreno and Henrikh Mkhitaryan after coach Mircea Lucescu identified Neymar as a future star.

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Shakhtar to sign Jucilei

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Shakhtar Donetsk have made their second bid of the new year as Mircea Lucescu looks to bring in fresh faces before the start of the campaign. In other news David Villa has agreed to join Chelsea with Fernando Torres heading to the Camp Nou in an exchange deal, were Bayer Leverkusen look set to offload their shot stopper Rene Adler in a deal worth £15 million plus Roma keepr Julio Sergio. Samuel Eto'o also looks increasingly closer to the door at the San Siro after Internazionale accept a deal with Manchester City that will see Edin Dzeko and James Milner heading to the Italian Champions.

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10798 - FC Shakhtar Donetsk

Shakhtar sign Coutinho on Loan

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Mircea Lucescu has completed his first signing of the new year after completing a deal for Brazilian, Philippe Coutinho who has joined on loan from Inter Milan. Coach Lucescu has said " I want to thank the coach of Internazionale Milan and thank Coutinho for joining the club and we hope to suceed this year and hopefully go on to bigger things."

Javier Zanetti has also left Inter after agreeing to join Chelsea and also Stephen Kiessling has also agreed to leave his club and join Lyon in france.