Former head of the Shakhtar academy Patrick van Leeuwen spoke about former Shakhtar pupil Oleksandr Zinchenko.
Patrick van Leeuwen"I do not think we lost him. There was a situation with the extension of his contract. As far as I remember, he did not want to go on loan to Zorya. He chose a different path. Ultimately, everything ended up being considered in the Lausanne court.
From the very beginning, we saw a strong personality in Oleksandr. I immediately saw that he knows what he wants. As he grew, he realized that he had to get a chance at the highest level.
This is what guided him in his decision, so to speak, to distance himself from the first team of Shakhtar, but it gave him many other opportunities," van Leeuwen is quoted by the Telegram channel FootballHub.
