Marca claims £89m star could change sport as Chelsea prepare to get nasty over huge sums of money | OneFootball

The saga around one player at Chelsea just continues to get weirder and weirder.

It was pretty eye popping from the start, when the Blues muscled in on Arsenal’s deal to sign Mykhailo Mudryk from Shakhtar. There was a lot of crowing from fans who clearly don’t know how football works about how we had poached the then Shakhtar winger from under our rivals’ noses.

Mudryk situation goes from bad to strange

Mykhailo Mudryk arrives for a Chelsea game. (Photo by Ryan Hiscott/Getty Images)

Well sadly we’re definitely not the ones laughing now. The insane fee we paid could rise to £89m, although at this rate it will never get there. In fact, there are claims from Marca in Spain that the winger’s contract has been terminated already.

The Ukraine international is currently suspended on a doping ban which could last as long as 4 years. He’s already almost a year in to that. The current top rumour is that he was given a banned substance while on national team duty, which is where the positive test came from.

Rumours around winger continue to swirl

The British press still haven’t confirmed the story about the contract termination, nor have they echoed the rumour that Chelsea are considering suing the Ukraine international team for ruining their vastly expensive asset.

Other claims today hold that Mudryk is going to use his ban from football to turn to athletics – he’s aiming to become an Olympic sprinter according to some accounts.

It doesn’t really matter to us at this stage – Chelsea have clearly moved on and written off ever having the winger play for them again. But the long tail of this story could trail on for a while given the vast sums of money involved, especially if a lawsuit does indeed come of it.