It is almost three months since Chelsea wing player Mykhailo Mudryk confirmed that he had failed a doping test and told us in a statement that he “had never consciously used forbidden substances” and that he “works closely with my team to investigate how this could have happened.”
Since then there has only been silence and with that emptiness there is wrong information.
Quotes from Mudryk were shared on social media last week, including by one Chelsea Fan account on X with more than a million followers. Yet it was told by the 24-year-old Ukrainian team that their customer did not say a word.
A compliment for the Chelsea aggregators on social media that did not blindly trust them without proof of an original source, especially since the dubious remarks have spoken perverse with losing five family members to the invasion of Russia in Ukraine and now feel lost without football.
Of course, cases such as Mudryk's legally complex are. They can be very mysterious, painfully slow and, as you may have noticed, difficult for those of us who cover them to publish a verified update, regardless of what you might hear about the grapevine and from whom. From today, the FA has not sued him and is still only suspended for the time being.
Occasionally, manager Enzo Maresca is asked if there is an update at his press conferences. The last time it happened on February 21 when he just answered, “No, I don't think so.”
It is somewhat hard on Chelsea's head coach, in reality. He hardly drops a bomb between discussing injuries and reverse full backs while watching his team's next Premier League match.
Looking for a concrete update of someone who is much more capable, confidentially asked the following five questions from Chelsea Football Club, Mudryk's representative on behalf of Prostar Football Agency, his lawyers Morgan Sports Law and the FA:
We gave the above parties three days to give answers, but our deadline on Monday 3 p.m. was told that they could not comment.
It doesn't matter, we have tried, don't ask, don't understand and such. Yet everyone realizes that there is an elephant in the room, one that cost £ 89 million when he signed at Shakhtar Donetsk in January 2023.
He has not played since November 28, 2024 and Chelsea is supposed to have given Mudryk an individual program to maintain his fitness from far, while he is not allowed to train with his teammates on their Cobham base.
Doubtful 'updates' will undoubtedly continue to pop up from the ODD fan account on social media, although you have to be extraordinary for such a clickbait. Until an official announcement arrives, it is all guesswork.
Whatcha Fink about Chelsea?
'This is something that the owners really want to be and they really encouraged me to do it. But I also like it. Talking with colleague supporters about the club is actually my favorite thing to do. '
That is Lord Finkelstein, the director of Chelsea, who spoke to confidential after we heard that he personally took the time to meet fans.
It is a good initiative – one that can help create a connection between the boardroom and the lifeline that they serve – in which Finkelstein not only communicates with fans, but also crucial listening to what they have to say.
Chelsea wants to emphasize the involvement of fans and Finkelstein, as someone who has been deeply supported the club that he has supported for more than 50 years, is hardly bad company to discuss the direction of the blues during lunch.
Blues get away with Rond Robinson
Good news for Chelsea, since confidential has been told that they will escape that the FA is charged and fined for how their players protested against the punishment they were not awarded when Cole Palmer was explained by Leicester's Luke Thomas after the opening minute.
The commentary on the match of the day 2 emphasized how referee Tim Robinson was surrounded by a 'Sea of Blue' at Stamford Bridge, while the club's own internal channel said: 'You can see players around the referee' in their full match repetition available online.
But I hear that the FA slides this one, which means that Chelsea will prevent them from adding the £ 230,000 that they have already received a fine from the administrative body for various indiscetions since the start of this season.
This includes £ 40,000 for surrounding the referee after a fine was granted to Ipswich, £ 40,000 for a massive confrontation with Nottingham Forest and £ 150,000 in total for receiving six or more yellow in competitions with Bournemouth, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle.
Chelsea proud of the long contracts of players
Chelsea analyzes the data forever and I have been told that intriguing statistics from a recent round of cracking figures within the club is how 87 percent of the team is bound until 2029 and then.
While their Premier League rivals have to compete with the headache of the contracts of their players who end this summer-see the current perilous situation of Liverpool with Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, for example the Blues never want one of their stars to come in the last two years of his contract.
Lightning McQueen in a race to impress
Chelsea has a 16-year-old school boy named Ryan Kavuma-McQueen who enjoyed an excellent end to last week.
On Wednesday, March 5, he started for England's Under-16s versus France in Spain. On Friday, March 7, he scored the winner for Chelsea's Under-21s against Ipswich. On Saturday, March 8, he gave their Under-18s the leadership of West Brom.
Although we should not expect too fast-We can raise young people so fanatically that it is unfair to them-chelsea loves the progress of Kavuma-McQueen.
The youngest player ever to appear before the blues was Ian 'Chico' Hamilton, who was 16 years old and 138 days when he got his senior debut in a first division cover with Tottenham in March 1967. He even scored to become their youngest scorer ever.
Enzo Maresca does not mind using Cobham-all three of his replacements in the last Premier League victory on Leicester were at home-soil and Kavuma-McQueen still has time to beat Hamilton's record.
With so much driving on results in the Premier League and Conference League, you wonder if this season will come too fast for a first team of camee. Let's look.
Whatever happens, it is nice to see that Cobham continues his tradition of producing fine prospects.
Win-win for Shim and Co
The name of Shim Mheuka will be added to a wall of debutants that you will find on the wall within the Academy building in Cobham.
That follows the 17-year-old striker who made his first start last week for the senior side in Copenhagen in the Conference League, after he handed over his Premier League arch less than two weeks earlier.
With Mheuka rattling the milestones, it is assumed that Brighton is starting to take advantage of the add-ons that were inserted to Chelsea in his sale when he was only 14. A tribunal decided a fee worth £ 1 million, rose to £ 4.25 million on the basis of different performance.
Confidential knows that a lump of £ 250,000 has to pay when he signs his second professional contract with Chelsea when they turn 18 and that if they ever sell it, Brighton is also 20 percent of the transfer costs.
It is a win-win for all parties, in truth. Brighton receives money for a child that they sold at the age of 14, and Chelsea benefits from Mheuka who goes into force.
I spit with my little binoculars … something starting with TB
During the victory of the Premier League of Sunday at Leicester, it was that we heard that Todd Boehly might appear a rare appearance on Stamford Bridge in the West Stand, opposite the press chairs.
I told a colleague from another newspaper that I wanted us to have binocular to check the director's box. What does he get out of his bag? A monocular telescope. Fair Play. Boy Scouts could only want to be prepared like that.
Anyway, Boehly was indeed present, was not next to his co-owner Behdad Eghbali but in the same part of Suave seats.
Although this Boehly's first visit to the bridge was in a while, the American billionaire was a participant at the Amex Stadium for one of the Brighton matches last month.
Wanging Willie
A few hours before the kick-off in Copenhagen, a certain recently retired Rugby League star walked past us in the city center.
It was none other than Willie Isa, the 'cultural architect' of Chelsea, whose responsibilities include a winning atmosphere in a player support capacity.
Isa travels home and away with the team, in contrast to simply acting as a Cobham presence.
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