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title: "Mutu ordered to pay Chelsea £15.2m"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Ryan Darby"
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published: "2018-10-03T09:23:02Z"
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# Mutu ordered to pay Chelsea £15.2m

Former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu has been ordered to pay the club £15.2 million in compensation.

[BBC Sport report](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45719451) that the former striker has lost his appeal against a failed drugs test that saw him sacked by the Blues.

Mutu tested positive for cocaine and was given a seven-month ban from the game.

In a case that has been running for many years, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered the Romanian to pay the club in compensation, a decision that the striker appealed.

![Ben Radford/Getty Images Sport](https://cdn.readeverything.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2447097.jpg)

The report claims that Chelsea are still seeking payment for the damages they are owed from the player.

The fee is a loss of earnings that reflects the remaining years of Mutu’s original contract at Stamford Bridge.

Mutu joined Chelsea in a big-money deal worth just short of £16 million from Parma back in 2003.

After arriving with plenty of promise, things quickly went downhill for the striker and he left the club in October 2004.