Liverpool set to miss out on £25 million Shakhtar Donetsk target Henrikh Mkhitaryan to Borussia Dortmund Mkhitaryan will cost around £25 million but it is Liverpool's lack of European football, especially the Champions League, that has always made it difficult to lure one of the most coveted players in Europe. Liverpool thought they could conclude a deal for £20 million last month, but Donetsk expressed their unhappiness at how the player's agents were conducting business. Liverpool were not prepared to simply subsidise a move by the player to buy out his contract as it would set a negative precedent. That meant negotiating a higher fee with his club - contrary to what the Merseyside club had originally understood to be the terms of the purchase. Donetsk said Mkhitaryan would cost nearer £25 million, a price Liverpool were ready meet. Should Mkhitaryan go to Germany, it would mean Liverpool will have to revise their summer targets again. Mkhitaryan and Greek centre-half Kyriakos Papadopolous were at the top of Rodgers" wanted list at the start of the summer. The move for Papadopolous ended because of a long-term knee problem causing Liverpool to baulk at his asking price. Now the Armenian playmaker it was hoped would transform the club's ambitions for the forthcoming season will force another rethink as Rodgers tries to build a side capable of breaking back into the top four.