Midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has extended his stay with the Italian champions Inter Milan for a season.
While three players Yann Sommer, Alessandro Acerbi and Matteo Darmian who are over the age of 35 were allowed to leave, the club posted 37-year-old Mkhitaryan in his Inter shirt with the caption simple “the journey continues” with “2027” written beside it.
“His maturity in reading the flow of the game, knowing when to slow the tempo and when to drive the team forward, made him an integral part of the team from his very first season,” Inter said on their homepage.
Armenian international has been part of Inter squads that won two league titles and made it to the final of the Champions League twice.
Inter said the player added “experience, leadership, a winning mentality, and unwavering composure and control in midfield, outstanding technical quality and exceptional tactical intelligence” to the team.
Inter begin the defence of their Scudetto title on the weekend of August 22-23.