Somewhere in the Shakhtar Donetsk media archives, there’s a video of a 14-year-old academy player showing off his skills, when someone asks him to reveal his career dream.
The young boy was Oleksandr ‘Alex’ Zinchenko and he said the ultimate objective was to play for Arsenal. The next day, a Shakhtar club official approached him.
“He said: ‘We need to film it again because the club is going to sack you!'” recalls Zinchenko in an