Chelsea ahead Mykhailo Mudryk is liable to being issued the longest ban in Premier League historical past, after failing a latest medication check and being provisionally suspended by the FA.
Joey Barton presently holds the document for the longest ban in Premier League historical past , with the FA suspending the previous midfielder in April 2017 for 18 months after discovering him responsible for putting greatest on 1,260 matches between March 2006 and Might 2013. He later had the ban decreased to 13 months after interesting, although, that also noticed him set the document.
In relation to a medication ban, Abel Xavier is the holder of that document, receiving an 18-month suspension whereas a Middlesbrough participant in November 2005. UEFA discovered a optimistic check for an anabolic steroid following a UEFA Cup match, with the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport chopping his ban all the way down to a 12 months.
Mykhailo Mudryk dealing with four-year ban – the longest in Premier League historical past
Mudryk could possibly be banned for 4 years (Picture credit score: Marc Atkins/Getty Pictures)
Mudryk, although, could possibly be issued a punishment 4 instances as harsh as Xavier’s, with the utmost punishment a four-year ban from soccer.
The Ukrainian insists he has “by no means knowingly used any banned substances”, regardless of the FA discovering an antagonistic discovering in a routine urine check. Resulting from that antagonistic discovering, Mudryk has been missed for the final 4 Chelsea video games, as per FA guidelines dictating {that a} participant is knowledgeable of a optimistic check and provisionally suspended earlier than a call is taken on a proper cost.
Chelsea could possibly be with out Mudryk (left) for as much as 4 years (Picture credit score: Sebastian Frej/MB Media/Getty Pictures)
That formal cost depends closely on the results of the ‘B’ pattern. When gamers are examined, two samples are collected in separate containers – the ‘A’ pattern is used to conduct the preliminary check, with the ‘B’ pattern then required to confirm the accuracy of outcomes if a optimistic ‘A’ pattern is returned.
Ought to that ‘B’ pattern additionally come again optimistic, then Mudryk might face a most four-year ban from the FA . Whereas the ‘B’ pattern is being examined, Mudryk has the chance to offer a proof for the preliminary optimistic outcome.
If Mudryk does obtain the utmost punishment, he’d return to soccer aged 27 – 28 if the ban is handed out after January 5 – within the 2028/29 season. However whereas his present contract with Chelsea, which runs till the summer time of 2031, will nonetheless have a few years remaining on it, there is not any assure the hierarchy at Stamford Bridge would look to maintain him.
Certainly, Juventus and Paul Pogba mutually agreed the termination of his contract earlier this season as soon as the size of his drug ban turned clear, which might possible occur between Chelsea and Mudryk.
Although Mudryk faces a possible 4 years out of soccer, it nonetheless would not be the lengthiest punishment issued by the FA in its historical past . That is as a result of former Torquay United goalkeeper Olafur Gottskalksson disappeared after being chosen to provide a pattern in 2005, realizing his cocaine dependancy would present up within the outcomes.
A couple of months later the FA introduced that Gottskalksson, who had fled to Amsterdam and did not return, had been banned from soccer indefinitely, with that lifetime ban trumping the 30 years Enoch bought for match fixing in 1915.
