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Mykhailo Mudryk joined Chelsea in an £88.6m deal (EPA) UEFA is closing a loophole which has allowed to spread the cost of their transfers across eight years. Chelsea have spent in excess of £150 million in the January transfer window – the majority of which was on an £88.6m deal for from Shakhtar Donetsk. Mudryk was handed the longest contract in Premier League history as the 22-year-old signed an eight-and-a-half-year deal with Chelsea.

Wesley Fofana signed a seven-year contract when he joined Chelsea last August (Getty)



A UEFA source told ‘If other clubs start doing the same with eight-year contracts it will be a mess so we need to protect them.




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