Onana got 9 months, Stam got 5 months.
What's the longest ban ever for a failed test in football?
Mykhaylo Mudryk | Reported - Failed doping test
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What's the longest ban ever for a failed test in football?
Isn't this a perfect out for Chelsea? Win win for them
I always thought that he’s Chelsea’s Antony but looks like he’s just taken one step further.
Most recent example is Pogba. He got 18 months (reduced from 4 years)
Pogba got 4 years reduced to 18 months.
Is 18 months the longest?
Yer man Mutu got 9 months didn’t he? Think it might have got reduced later on though.
It seems like it from what I found, aye. Abel Xavier also got 18 months
I guess there’s grounds for terminating his contract, but that’s not really a win for Chelsea, given that we spent £62m on the guy.
How dumb do you have to be to get caught for this in 2024?
But it's better than paying him wages plus the transfer fee; writing off the cost early is a blessing for you, no?
Mykhaylo "Mutu"
I guess in a worst case scenario like this, where the player turned out to be not very useful and a failed doping test, yeah early contract termination is kind of a win, but I had hoped we could recoup at least some of that transfer fee.
Is he the worst athlete to have ever been caught using performance enhancers?
Just thinking it's great news to wake up to if you're a money man at the club. Provides an out that wasn't there and saves you a lot of money in the end. Perhaps more than selling on and subsidising a huge amount of the salary, plus the knockdown penny price he's worth.
Dunno if the club can get some degree of insurance for situations like this or it's impossible, given the scope for some big swindle through collusion.
100k per week for 8 and a half years... Todd Boehly must have dropped a P Diddy in his drink.
I hope he’s been doing lines rather than PEDs. If it’s PEDs he needs to go back to the supplier and get a refund.
Yeah if it is that simple, SJR is going to be inviting Rashford over for some spiked mulled wine very soon.
Is there a possibility Club might be involved to get rid of a player?
He surely should get refund if someone sold him PED
He surely should get refund if someone sold him PED
I don't think that should be the right approach by teams - it never sat well with me how Chelsea did it to Mutu, and especially not nowadays when the key message being put out is that if people are struggling with addictions they should feel like they can share that and they'll be helped.
Sacking a player when it's revealed they've got an addiction, and demanding they pay back millions upon millions - as Chelsea did with Mutu - is not creating an environment where players feel they can admit their addiction and get help.
Most other clubs are standing by the players when it's discovered they've got an addiction and suffer a ban - most recently Ivan Toney and Sandro Tonali for betting. I don't think Chelsea should be encouraged to do the opposite and use addiction as an opportunity to sack players and then sue them for millions. That ruthless approach is just discouraging players from admitting it and seeking the help and support that they need.
Antony’s having a bit of a redemption season so far. In the spirit of will smith, Take our boy’s name out of your mouth!
They call that a Mutu-al feeling
A drian on resources.
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was just wondering if they spiked him to get him off the books :lol
hes making antony look like a denis irwin level bargain
Onono.
He's been a terrible signing.
Chelsea would be lucky getting rid of that stupid contract.
Chelsea would be lucky getting rid of that stupid contract.
Desperate act but not even close.
Depends on what they've failed for, and if they admit it or not. They might have changed now but when I did my UK Anti Doping (UKAD) course a few years ago it was 2 year ban for recreational drugs, and 4 years for performance-enhancing drugs. Both would be reduced if you admitted it. I know of a Weightlifter who didn't admit, got a 4 year ban, kept coaching athletes while banned, so got another 4 year ban slapped on top.
Performance wise, I don't believe that's true. Mudryk had been more useful for us than Antony had been for United imo, certainly until this season. He's only been playing in the conference league this season, so can't really gain or learn anything from scoring against that level of opposition but last season, watching both players, the eye test was telling Mudryk was playing better football and the stats for both of them kind of support this.
Obviously when you introduce a failed doping test and a potential lengthy ban into the equation, then the scales tip heavily in favour of Antony.
I guess we rule recreational drugs and accidental pain killer meds out of the question then?
Hope he did nothing wrong. He just started to score some good goals and gaining bit of confidence in conference league. Now failed in drug test. Poor lad.