Manchester United and Armenia midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been included in FourFourTwo's 10th edition of the top 100 football players of the past year.

The FFT Top 100 covers a 12-month period. That includes twice as many league games from last term as this season.

"Mkhitaryan’s meagre two starts in 2016/17 – Jose Mourinho being oddly reluctant to play the £27m signing – are comfortably outweighed by the playmaker’s phenomenal 2015/16. After all, Mkhitaryan was named Player of the Year by 235 Bundesliga pros surveyed in German magazine Kicker and came third in the official players’ vote," the FFT says.

"The Armenian was reborn under Thomas Tuchel in his final Borussia Dortmund campaign. Mkhitaryan scored or assisted – and this isn’t a typo – 55 goals in 52 games, which is frankly obscene. Operating sometimes behind Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang but more commonly drifting in from the right, Mkhitaryan showed he’s a true raumdeuter, a space investigator, and one who knows where the goal is."

"If that’s not enough, he speaks seven languages fluently and his dad was called Hamlet," it adds.

Manchester United host West Ham United for the second time in four days on Wednesday, November 30 night and this time a place in the EFL Cup semi-finals is up for grabs. Mkhitaryan is likely to be included in the starting lineup.