Shakhtar President Rinat Akhmetov commented on the victory of Man United - in particular, the ex-player Miners Henrik Mkhitaryan - in the European League.

In the final of the Europa League, the 2-1 mankunians defeated Ajax. This will allow the Red Devils in the next season to participate in the group stage of the Champions League.

"I congratulate them on this, but I like it more when not the ex-Shakhtar players play in the finals, but when Shakhtar plays there. Therefore, I will rejoice only when our team plays there, "Akhmetov began..

"There was such a moment when Anatoly Tymoshchuk in the Zenith won the UEFA Cup. He did a lot for our club ... And after the victory he came to Donetsk and brought the UEFA Cup, so everyone was glad that he is holding it in his hands. So I said that I will come when Shakhtar will keep his cup ".

"I congratulate the players, but I'm more happy and I'm more pleased when we hold our cup.

Then our fans are all happy, and not just watching with thoughts: "This is our pupil, and this is not our pupil, this one played with us, but this one did not play".

The fact that the ex-football players of the Miner win Euro-trophies is good. This shows that the philosophy that we preached - the young talents come to Shakhtar, but come out ready players for the best teams in Europe - justified themselves, "the president summed up.

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