England: Close to Arsenal, Ukrainian nugget Mudryk should finally sign… at Chelsea

it deal with which will be raffled off for several million euros. A small handful that will make all the difference despite weeks of talks between Arsenal and Shakhtar Donetsk over the Ukrainian club’s nugget, winger Mykhailo Mudryk (22). I advise you to join Artillerymenwhose destination seemed to be favorable to the player, he should finally take on Chelsea, neighbor and rival, in the coming hours.

This is a mercato journalist Fabrizio Romano which on Saturday night announced Chelsea’s decisive advance in negotiations. Since then, the agreement between the two clubs has been confirmed by several media outlets and by the clubs themselves on their social media. Blues would have won the bet by agreeing to access the financial claims of the Ukrainian club, who wanted 100 million euros for their player. A symbolic level that Arsenal would never want to reach by offering the best deal around 95 million euros, according to several media sources.

Chelsea, for their part, will be less shy. Although his interest in the player appeared about ten days ago, the club would have turned the wheel in his favor by offering a fixed €70m, a €30m bonus and, as is often done in England, a contract of more than 7 years with Mudrik. absorb these high costs as much as possible. This is what Chelsea have already done this season for Wesley Fofana (contract until 2029), Marc Cucurella (2028) or Benoît Badiashile (2030), who has just signed with the club. Blues for seven and a half years.

455 million spent in one season, a record

10th place in the Premier League after a difficult start to the season, marked by numerous injuries among others (Mendy, Fofana, Chilwell, James, Kante, Zakaria, Sterling, Pulisic, Brocha, etc.), Chelsea bought in 2022 American billionaire Ted Boly, after the departure of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, spares no expense to raise the bar. Except Mudrik, Blues already this summer they added 12 players to their staff for 355 million euros. Thus, the total amount, which will be increased to 455 million euros after the completion of Mudrik’s transfer, is more than any other club in a single season in the history of football.

In any case, this is a very unexpected turn and an event that will raise high hopes for the performance of the young Mudrik, who is valued at 40 million euros by the specialist site Transfermarkt. Which never stopped Darijo Srna, the football director of the Ukrainian club, from telling L’Equipe: “With all due respect, don’t tell me that Grealish (moved to Manchester City for 117 million euros) and Anthony (moved to Manchester United for 95 million euros). ) play better than Mudrik. At his post, he is the third best youngster in the world after Vinicius and Mbappe. The 22-year-old left winger has scored 10 goals in 24 games this season and has particularly excelled in the Champions League with Shakhtar (3 goals, 2 assists in 6 games).

In an interview with Ukrainian media outlet Sportarena last November, Mudryk, who has always made Arsenal his priority if he leaves for England, nevertheless stated: “When I found out my price, I was not just surprised, I was shocked. The amount of 100 million is a barrier to my entry into the high-level championship, which I so dreamed of. I can’t say that my dream has been killed, but it’s been hurt – that’s for sure (…) I’m 100% sure that a player from the Ukrainian championship is unlikely to be bought for 100 million. He underestimated the Premier League.