Mutu Owes Chelsea €17.17 Million. Does That Seem Fair?

By: Daryl | August 14th, 2008

It wasn’t widely report at the time, but back in June FIFA decided that Adrian Mutu owed Chelsea €12 million (£9.6 million) compensation. Why? For putting some special Colombian powder up his nostrils, getting his contract terminated and then signing for Juventus on a free transfer before moving on to current club Fiorentina.

After two months of appeals, FIFA’s grandly titled Disputes Resolution Chamber has now decided that that figure was ridiculous. How can one man owe a massive club like Chelsea such an insane sum of money like €12 million? So today they’ve put things right and ruled that a far more sensible figure would be €17.17 million (£13.8 million).

That’s one expensive line of nose candy.

Here’s Chelsea’s reaction:

“Chelsea is delighted with the DRC’s decision.
“This is an important decision for football. Not only did the DRC make us a very significant monetary award, the decision also recognised the damaging effect incidents involving drugs has on football and the responsibilities we all have in this area.”

No shit they’re delighted. €17.17 big ones for a player they fired? That money will come in handy for paying some of Frank Lampard’s humungous wages over the next five years.

I think there’s an argument here that it makes no sense for one man to have to pay €17.17 million to a club owned by a Russian billionaire. There’s also an argument that – though drugs are bad, etc – Chelsea terminated Mutu’s contract, not the other way around. They could have stuck with him for the seven month drug ban and then sold him on for some cold hard cash. I always felt that Chelsea fired Mutu mostly because they could afford to.

Of course, this isn’t final. Mutu can still appeal the Court of Arrbitration for Sport. And it’s hard to say which side of the argument CAS will come down on based on their recent high profile Olympic judgement. On one handed they sided with the big clubs and against the players by ruling that players must return from the Olympics if the clubs request so. But on the other hand they seemed to enjoy pissing off FIFA by contradicting their ruling.

They can’t do both this time, since FIFA and the clubs are on the same side.

Fiorentina Offside already has a computer simulation of what Mutu will look like in ten years time, and are hoping this doesn’t mean Mutu will be after a big money move to pull down a few extra million euros. My suggested solution is that Fiorentina (or some other club) should offer him a money per goal contract. Who knows, maybe the motivation of massive debt will see Mutu banging in a lot more beauties like these..

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Eugen

The truth stings isn't it? :)

You know Abra's a thief, isn't he? And the people that work for this thief want to set a new precedent in football history.

There are a LOT of players in this world that used drugs, even for performance enhancement wich is a lot worse, but there's only one club that has such a scumbag convention running it that they feel the need to destroy the career of a guy that made a mistake, sack him and then when the poor ex drug user recovers his career, sue him for more than he earned in his whole career.

What's even more baffling is that as I understand Chelsea's band'o scumbags demanded 12m and got 17m ... I guess some of those corrupt FIFA official got a Abramovich style bribe and felt the need to work a litte extra for it. :)
Jack

eugenius, hilarious name considering how much of an idiot you appear to be.
Eugen

He's not liable for a contract between other two parties. It's absurd.

And you tell me that Chleski bought him with 22mil euro of Abramovich's 100% stolen money and after that suspension he served he had a market value of .... under 5mil? And the time he played for them does not count at all? What the hell?

I think Abramovich greased the right hands at FIFA to get this ridiculous decision, afterall Havelange, Blatter and his clique are all obvious bribe takers. I recently saw a BBC documentary on the bribes that are taken by FIFA officials ... I must say it's exactly as I expected. Abramovich fits right into that scene. :)
A

Indeed, prosecuting by the full extent of the law is the best policy. I'm glad CFC are showing the way.
ps

And to "A"

Yes you are right Bosnich was another case.

He likewise "blew" his career up for the white stuff.

He signed from MUF on a free transfer and as far as i recall was on GBP 40,000 a week. An amount most people would earn in about a year.

If you make that kind of money you know the risks associated with doing drugs as it would be spelled out in your contract.

Also bear in mind that these people most likely don't take the bus to and from training (presumably), so there is a good chance that at some point they would have been driving with drugs in their blood. We cant say this for sure of course, but when you have a couple of super nice car in the garage its fair to assume that you don't take the bus.

I wonder if your views would be so accommodating if one of your children had been killed in a traffic accident by a drug abuser?