Mkhi gets a soft landing

HENRIKH MKHITARYAN has failed at Manchester United – yet he has been rewarded for that failure with a bigger, £200,000-a-week pay packet at Arsenal.

Mind you, the Armenian fits the Gunners narrative and is a classic Arsenal player I suppose — a bit soft, a bit weak, with a ‘nice lad’ mentality…

He’ll be awful against Bournemouth one week, then brilliant against Crystal Palace the next.

Mkhitaryan (above) hasn’t been getting into a team that has been crying out for the kind of pace and invention he can offer when he is at his best because he hasn’t grasped the nettle.

Instead, he has got himself somewhere where the expectation is rock bottom and that is Arsenal Football Club.