Chelsea’s $62 million participant charged with doping offences, dangers four-year ban

Chelsea ahead Mykhailo Mudryk has been charged with anti-doping rule violations after a pattern taken final yr produced an hostile discovering for a prohibited substance, England’s Soccer Affiliation (FA) mentioned on Wednesday.

Mudryk had confirmed in December {that a} urine pattern had produced the hostile discovering following a routine anti-doping check, which the Ukraine worldwide mentioned got here as a “full shock” as he had by no means knowingly used a banned substance.

The 24-year-old, who joined Chelsea in January 2023 for an preliminary payment of 62 million kilos ($83.44 million), had been provisionally suspended and has not performed since.

“We are able to affirm that Mykhailo Mudryk has been charged with Anti-Doping Rule Violations alleging the presence and/or use of a prohibited substance, by way of Laws 3 and 4 of The FA’s Anti-Doping Laws,” an FA spokesperson advised Reuters.

“As that is an ongoing case, we aren’t able to remark additional at the moment.”

The rules cope with the presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or the use or tried use by a participant of a prohibited substance or a prohibited technique.

Mudryk dangers a four-year ban if he can not set up that the anti-doping rule violation was not intentional.

Reuters has contacted Chelsea however the membership has not commented on the costs.