{"id":640526,"date":"2026-05-01T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640526\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:02:08","slug":"mykhailo-mudryk-why-was-chelsea-winger-given-secret-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640526\/","title":{"rendered":"Mykhailo Mudryk: Why was Chelsea winger given secret ban?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mudryk has been suspended and unable to play for either Chelsea<\/a> or Ukraine since the FA provisionally suspended him 16 months ago.<\/p>\n

He remains contracted to the Blues until 2031, having signed a long deal when he joined for \u00a361m in 2022, as part of the club’s plan to amortise the cost of transfers and contracts.<\/p>\n

Amortisation means spreading costs out over many years in order to reduce them in each year of a business’ accounts.<\/p>\n

If Mudryk’s ban is upheld by Cas, he would be unable to play again until roughly December 2028, as that is four years since his provisional suspension began.<\/p>\n

But if the ban were to be reduced by Cas, he could be back on the pitch in a much shorter timeframe. Sources close to the player believe he could be back in action as early as next season.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> would be able to terminate Mudryk’s contract once the Cas process has concluded, given an anti-doping ban constitutes a breach of employment terms in most footballers’ contracts.<\/p>\n

Were they to do that, the amortised cost of the remaining years of Mudryk’s contract would disappear from the club accounts – effectively writing the expense off and helping their finances significantly.<\/p>\n

On the other hand though, Chelsea<\/a> would be entitled to sell Mudryk for some sort of transfer fee if they maintain his contract and keep paying his wages.<\/p>\n

Or they could of course continue to pay his wages as a member of their squad and reintegrate him into the team once the ban has ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mudryk has been suspended and unable to play for either Chelsea or Ukraine since the FA provisionally suspended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-640526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}