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Final 22 million offer for Chygrynskiy rejected
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Editor at Monday, 3 August 2009
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Asked about the rumours linking Shakhtar Donetsk defender and Ukrainian international Dmytro Chygrynskiy (22) with a move to Barcelona (read more here), Shakhtar president Rinat Akhmetov told the club's official media last Friday that the transfer is now definitely off after the club and the player rejected a last offer by Barcelona:
"Chygrynskiy is with Shakhtar and he will stay. I've been in contact with Dima the whole time. The official proposal from Barcelona was the biggest of Ukrainian history: 22 million euro°! But I promised the staff to keep the squad together.
The matter is not that 22 million is too much or too little, or that we ask 25 million... That's not the issue. I had put forward a certain sum for which we could start negotiating. I didn't make a decision immediately after the offer came. I usually do as my heart tells me. In the evening I think one thing, in the morning another one. It seemed good for him to play for Barcelona. And at the same time we would suffer without him. How to make a decision?
I called Dima and said that I tried to put myself in his place: 'Now try to do the same. I will respect your decision. If you tell me to let you go I'll let you go, I'll even accept an offer of 20 million.' Do you know what he answered? Dima said: 'Rinat Leonidovych, I'll never tell you this, because for me this team, these fans, mean a lot. If my departure would be a step back for Shakhtar, I'll refuse.'
The guy didn't put pressure on the club. Dima is a patriot of Donetsk and all our fans. It deserves great respect. I thank him very much as president and as a human being. So I can say that the whole thing has already finished. For me it is finished so I'm calm now. From my side there was no pressure on the player. I could have said that he has a contract and that is that. But I didn't want to play it that way. The most important thing is that he acted as a very noble man."
Read more:
Shakhtar CEO: Chygrynskiy won't cost 30 million euro
Looking forward to the last transfer window month
Barcelona keeps insisting for Chygrynskiy