Spurs sign Mudryk on loan from Chelsea with option to buy

Tottenham have signed Chelsea winger Mykhailo Mudryk on a season-long loan with an option to buy.

Mudryk has not played a competitive game since November 2024 due to a doping ban that was resolved in July.

The 25-year-old joined Chelsea for £88.5m in January 2023 amid much fanfare, with the Blues beating Arsenal to his signing.

But the Ukraine international failed to live up to that price tag at Stamford Bridge and will now look to reignite his career in north London.

Spurs boss Roberto De Zerbi coached Mudryk at Shakhtar Donetsk and even tipped him as a future Ballon d'Or winner.

Mudryk was suspended for four years for failing a drug test, which revealed the presence of a low concentration of meldonium, a prohibited substance, two years ago.

Mudryk filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) while changes to World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) procedures in the interim mean that had his failed test produced the same result now, charges would not have been brought.

The FA said: "Changes have been made… which, while not retroactive, mean that if Mr Mudryk's sample was collected today, the concentration of meldonium in the sample would not have been reported and no anti-doping rule violations would have resulted.

"Further to that development and to other circumstances of the case, the FA and Mr Mudryk have now - with the agreement of WADA - resolved the appeal proceedings.

"As a part of the agreement, Mr Mudryk accepted that he had committed the ADRVs (Anti-Doping Rule Violations) charged and acceded to a period of ineligibility equal to the time served at the date of the agreement.

"Mr Mudryk is no longer ineligible and may return to competition with immediate effect."

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