Izuchukwu OkosiChelsea have reached an agreement with Ukrainian club, Shakhtar Donetsk for Mykhailo Mudryk after meeting the €100 Million price valuation put forward by the club.
The financial package, according to sources in the English media, is reportedly €70m + €30m add-ons.
The duration of the contract is said to be seven years contract agreed.
The player who had been vocal about his preference to play for Arsenal is now expected to fly from Istanbul, Turkey to London to undergo the mandatory medical examination and discuss personal details with the hierarchy at Stamford Bridge.
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The deal has not been signed yet but most sources in England indicate that it is a done deal as Arsenal only put €95 Million on the table.
The Gunners were willing to pay €60 Million upfront and €35 in add-ons.
Arsenal director Edu Gaspar had flown out to Warsaw, Poland on Friday evening in an attempt to finally secure the services of Mykhalyo Mudryk for the Premier League leaders, according to Italian media outlet, Tuttomercatoweb.
With Ukraine still under fire from Russia, Shakhtar Donetsk have spent most of the last 12 months stationed over the border in Poland.
They played their home matches in the Champions League group-stages at Legia Warsaw’s Stadion Wojska Polskiego.
And, while Mudryk and the rest of the Shakhtar squad are currently training in Turkey as the Ukrainian Premier League takes a break for the winter, the club’s bosses are presumably still working out of Poland.
Shakhtar Donetsk were bent on their £88 million valuation of the player but negotiations have dragged on.
Despite Chelsea’s best efforts to hijack the deal, there is growing confidence that Arsenal are close to an agreement with Shakhtar Donetsk over a January deal for Mudryk due to his preference.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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