Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk provisionally suspended after failing drugs test
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Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk has been provisionally suspended from football after being notified of a positive drugs test by the Football Association. The winger has not featured in the club’s past five matches. Enzo Maresca, Chelsea’s manager, has cited illness as the cause of Mudryk’s absence.
However it has emerged that Mudryk, who has struggled since joining Chelsea for £89m in January 2023, has been missing since producing a contaminated ‘A’ sample. The Ukraine international is waiting to find out whether the result of a ‘B’ sample confirms the initial findings.
A club statement said: “Chelsea Football Club can confirm the Football Association recently contacted our player Mykhailo Mudryk concerning an adverse finding in a routine urine test. “Both the club and Mykhailo fully support the FA’s testing programme and all our players, including Mykhailo, are regularly tested. Mykhailo has confirmed categorically that he has never knowingly used any banned substances. Both Mykhailo and the club will now work with the relevant authorities to establish what has caused the adverse finding. The club will not be commenting any further.”.
Mudryk has started only one Premier League game this season, in which he was taken off at half-time, but has been a regular in the Conference League and Carabao Cup. His most recent appearance was at Heidenheim on 28 November, where he scored in Chelsea’s 2-0 victory.
