Arsenal and Chelsea may have FIFA to blame if they miss out on Mudryk

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Arsenal and Chelsea may have FIFA to blame if they miss out on landing Mykhaylo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk. The Premier League giants have both been trying to thrash out a deal with the Ukrainian club for their prized asset.

Arsenal have been linked with a move for Mudryk since last summer. And they appeared to be the frontrunners to sign the ace after reportedly putting forward bids of £52million and £62m. But both of those offers were rejected, despite the fact the player illustrated his desire to move to the Emirates Stadium by posting a series of transfer hints to his Instagram page.

Chelsea are now said to be keen to land Mudryk as well as they look to bolster their squad for the second half of the season. The Blues have underwhelmed in front of goal this season and have dropped to 10th in the Premier League table after scoring just 20 goals in 17 top-flight matches.

Shakhtar are said to be holding out for a whopping £88m in exchange for Mudryk. And, according to the Independent, the reason Shakhtar are refusing to compromise on the transfer fee is because of the amount of money they lost in potential sales last year when FIFA ruled that foreign players could leave Ukrainian clubs for free after the country was attacked by Russia.

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Last July, it was reported that Shakhtar were planning to sue FIFA for £43m over lost transfer fees. And the club’s chief executive Sergei Palkin said: “We contacted the legal department at FIFA and said ‘it’s very complicated, let’s work out the situation.’ But they completely ignored our letter. No answer at all.

“Then we contacted the Ukrainian association, and created a letter with all the clubs, sent it to FIFA and got no answer at all. We had a lot of arguments, even journalists called FIFA asking, ‘did you communicate with all key stakeholders?’ They (FIFA) said, ‘yes.’ But they completely ignored the Ukraine association, clubs and our Premier League.

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“At the same time, they connected with the world league forum. What is this organisation responsible for? It’s ridiculous. Its negligence of the decision-making process. They should consult all parties especially the Ukrainian clubs. All the European organisations support Ukraine. How is it possible to behave like this?

“If you have stolen our players in accordance with your rule, you (should) say, ‘okay, in this case you have war, a difficult situation, (so) you don’t need to pay these debts to clubs.’ From one side they did nothing. You need to pay to clubs up to €50million in debts. From another one, they have stolen our players. What should we do? They just kill us. Nobody paid attention, nobody asked us.

“This situation gave more power to agents and makes them much richer than before. I’ve heard from FIFA that they are trying to put in some sort of security for foreign players. Well after the war started, all foreign players were secure within one week. Nobody pushed foreign players to return. I negotiated with all of them, they could be loaned and sold, all were happy. Even the agents were happy. But FIFA penetrated our financial ecosystem and destroyed everything.”

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