Reminder that Mudryk scored 5 premier league goals from 18 starts in the 23/24 season, which would be Neto’s best goal scoring season in the league in the 7 years he’s been here.

Seeing quite a few rumours saying that he’s ban is complete and finished on 17th January. Nothing too credible so take it with a pinch of salt. Saying he has back training and plan is to send him to Strasbourg to get match time

I wonder if he/the club have been able to avoid a proper ban.

Edited January 18Jan 18 by JM7

On 06/01/2026 at 19:56, terraloon said:

Unlike many discipline breesches having a banned substance in your system is confirmed by science

Of course there have been instances where sports men/ woman have been able to prove the testing process was compromised but in the vast majority of cases there is no doubt about a banned substance being present in a blood sample.

As sports people are responsible for what’s in their blood then there doesn’t seem to be any doubt he is guilty.

The question then being asked how did it get there and that seems to be the conundrum in this whole issue.

We know that he is claiming that he didn’t knowingly take anything but the science suggests that it’s possible that contaminated food stuff, particularly dairy can transfer to humans. That it seems is his claim to mitigation.

Not quite. Although in Mudryk's case it is more discrete, as meldonium is a synthetic drug and the test for meldonium is a simple presence/absence, the procedure for testing for excess levels of endogenous chemicals (eg EPO, testosterone etc) is far more subjective. There is actually no concrete scientific test to show that levels in a sample are above those normally produced, since all humans are different, and the arguments for/against are largely legal and semantic.

Overall it should be said that WADA processes are not flawless nor wholly objective and unlike semi-pro track or swimming athletes, highly-paid footballers and football clubs seeking to protect an asset have more resources to challenge a decision than a national anti-doping body.

The mitigating factor is likely what has drawn this out. As above, Mudryk was able to immediately engage the top-tier legal firm for these sorts of cases, and Pogba's successful challenge has set a pretty compelling precedent for heavy mitigation. In Pogba's case, CAS accepted that his evidence that he did not knowingly ingest the substance and relied on the advice of the doctor who prescribed it; we don't (yet) know who gave Mudryk the allegedly tainted material. Either way, it's doubtful that NADC/WADA would have sufficient evidence that Mudryk did it deliberately.

5 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Not quite. Although in Mudryk's case it is more discrete, as meldonium is a synthetic drug and the test for meldonium is a simple presence/absence, the procedure for testing for excess levels of endogenous chemicals (eg EPO, testosterone etc) is far more subjective. There is actually no concrete scientific test to show that levels in a sample are above those normally produced, since all humans are different, and the arguments for/against are largely legal and semantic.

Overall it should be said that WADA processes are not flawless nor wholly objective and unlike semi-pro track or swimming athletes, highly-paid footballers and football clubs seeking to protect an asset have more resources to challenge a decision than a national anti-doping body.

The mitigating factor is likely what has drawn this out. As above, Mudryk was able to immediately engage the top-tier legal firm for these sorts of cases, and Pogba's successful challenge has set a pretty compelling precedent for heavy mitigation. In Pogba's case, CAS accepted that his evidence that he did not knowingly ingest the substance and relied on the advice of the doctor who prescribed it; we don't (yet) know who gave Mudryk the allegedly tainted material. Either way, it's doubtful that NADC/WADA would have sufficient evidence that Mudryk did it deliberately.

Not wanting to be pedantic but my point was that a test proves if a substance is in your blood.

Of course some substances are as you say are not naturally produced in the body but the fact remains the tests , unless proven to be contaminated or that the test wasn’t conducted correctly, produce evidence that is fact and not based on opinion.

The subjective view as to what the levels are etc only comes into play after a blood or urine test flags up levels be they zero or acceptance up to a certain level have been exceeded

Edited January 19Jan 19 by terraloon

9 hours ago, JM7 said:

Seeing quite a few rumours saying that he’s ban is complete and finished on 17th January. Nothing too credible so take it with a pinch of salt. Saying he has back training and plan is to send him to Strasbourg to get match time

I wonder if he/the club have been able to avoid a proper ban.

I was told at the game on Saturday something similar although the rumour wasn’t just about him going to Strasbourg but one coming the other way.

Bear in mind we are restricted to 6 international loans , not including academy products who fulfil certain requirements. Aren’t we still at the limit ? Although there seems to be chatter around DD Fofana going to Celtic

Tears in my eyes.

This is going to be the greatest comeback since George Foreman put down the grills to become World Champion.

Misha is going to single handedly save us from the torment of watching Pedro Neto run down dead ends and throw his hands in the air when a pass is 2cm in front of him every match day.

Estevao/Palmer/Misha/Garnacho rotation for the World Champions. We are so back baby.

I can't see us signing anyone else from Strasbourg simply because they would want to keep that team stability as the ownerships second club. I reckon we may sign Barco from them in summer though. He looks like he will be the next one to join us from that club.

The complete lack of official info surrounding this sorry saga has been really bizarre ... I'm struggling to think of any precedent in any sport when the waters have been so muddied ...

To Recap: Misha Mudruck is a junkie and he was never that good at football anyways.

Our lord and saviour will soon return, god bless you Misha

He can battle it out with Gittens to see who can do the most step overs before falling over the ball.

11 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Our lord and saviour will soon return, god bless you Misha

Bit of a dilemma for you on the user name front LOL, or will you forsake both of them and become NoJacquetRequired ?

Edited January 19Jan 19 by Sexyfootball

50 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Bit of a dilemma for you on the user name front LOL, or will you forsake both of them and become NoJacquetRequired ?

Sorry - don't understand this comment. I have never had a Username in relation to Mudryk. That was another user that was rightfully banned for his posts, i am a serious poster that would never say anything controversial to put jeopardise my account.

56 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Sorry - don't understand this comment. I have never had a Username in relation to Mudryk. That was another user that was rightfully banned for his posts, i am a serious poster that would never say anything controversial to put jeopardise my account.

RIP Mou… Ukrai…. GarnachoCheese!

8 hours ago, The Boehly Babes said:

Tears in my eyes.

This is going to be the greatest comeback since George Foreman put down the grills to become World Champion.

Misha is going to single handedly save us from the torment of watching Pedro Neto run down dead ends and throw his hands in the air when a pass is 2cm in front of him every match day.

Estevao/Palmer/Misha/Garnacho rotation for the World Champions. We are so back baby.

We're going to play head down Neto on the right and kick the ball 100 yards ahead of himself Mudryk so he can get in a speed race with his fallback and then mess up the end product 🫠

"Theyre trying to make him go to rehab the board say strasbourg bourg Bourg"

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Why does Mudryk find it so hard to avoid negative headlines? He always seems to attract negativity for the most ridiculous sh*t.

On 19/01/2026 at 17:47, The Boehly Babes said:

RIP Mou… Ukrai…. GarnachoCheese!

Next up ......... say hello to MudrykMeats

Come to the logical conclusion Mudryk is better than any of the Garnacho/Neto/Gittens options we currently have for the LW.

I think we were all too harsh on him as we all had the mindset we were a club eating at the top table, now we’ve all been humbled and accepted that under BlueCo we’re an obscure mid table nobody, it’s time to reintegrate our generational talent back into the lineup.

A season of Sancho bought us down a peg and this half season of Neto/Garnacho/Gittens has bought us to our knees.

Quietly confident Mudryk is better than all 3 and we were just being delusional expecting the Hazards& Robbens we were accustomed to.

2 hours ago, The Boehly Babes said:

Come to the logical conclusion Mudryk is better than any of the Garnacho/Neto/Gittens options we currently have for the LW.

I think we were all too harsh on him as we all had the mindset we were a club eating at the top table, now we’ve all been humbled and accepted that under BlueCo we’re an obscure mid table nobody, it’s time to reintegrate our generational talent back into the lineup.

A season of Sancho bought us down a peg and this half season of Neto/Garnacho/Gittens has bought us to our knees.

Quietly confident Mudryk is better than all 3 and we were just being delusional expecting the Hazards& Robbens we were accustomed to.

He was only so good because he was juicing. I never want to see this cheater in a chelsea shirt again. Ever. The club need to take the hit on the transfer fee and ship him out and away from the club...

Just a wholly unlikeable player.

59 minutes ago, bluelightening said:

He was only so good because he was juicing. I never want to see this cheater in a chelsea shirt again. Ever. The club need to take the hit on the transfer fee and ship him out and away from the club...

I don't mind seeing him in a Chelsea shirt again. But boy is he gonna have to work incredibly hard to prove his critics wrong. I just don't think he has that in him

51 minutes ago, Zeta said:

Just a wholly unlikeable player.

And person by the looks of things.

Seems like a fun guy

Playing video games like a f**king nerd, for shame