Chelsea forward provisionally suspended by the Football Association after failing a drugs test.
Chelsea forward Mykhailo Mudryk has been provisionally suspended by the Football Association after failing a drugs test.
Mudryk, who faces a potential ban of up to four years under FA rules, said in a statement this is “a complete shock” and he has “not done anything wrong”.
Chelsea have launched their own investigation and said the 23-year-old insists he “has never knowingly used any banned substances”.
Mudryk, who passed a routine drugs test in August, has not been in the Chelsea squad for the last four games, with head coach Enzo Maresca putting his absence down to illness.
Mudryk says he is in “complete shock” after testing positive for a banned substance.
The club confirmed on Tuesday that they had been contacted by the Football Association (FA) after an “adverse finding in a routine urine test” provided by the Ukraine international.
Mudryk denies ever knowingly using a banned substance and Chelsea say they will work to establish what caused the failed test.
“This has come as a complete shock as I have never knowingly used any banned substances or broken any rules, and am working closely with my team to investigate how this could have happened,” Mudryk wrote on Instagram.
