Liverpool have lost out on one of their major transfer targets after Shakhtar Donetsk’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan agreed a £21.5m move to Borussia Dortmund, the BBC writes.
Manager Brendan Rodgers identified the 24-year-old forward as a top priority.
But the Reds were told on Friday that the Ukrainian side had done a deal with the Champions League finalists.
Liverpool were happy to meet the asking price for Mkhitaryan but it is believed they never got the chance to hold talks with the highly rated Armenian.
