Enzo Maresca has mentioned Mykhailo Mudryk must “disconnect” from Chelsea as he awaits the result of a Football Association (FA) investigation right into a failed drugs test.
The 23-year-old winger was provisionally suspended final week after returning a constructive “A” pattern in October.
Sources have informed ESPN that the prohibited substance was meldonium and administered whereas he was in a foreign country.
Mudryk wrote on Instagram that he was “shocked” by the information and sources have advised he believes his pattern was contaminated.
The Ukraine worldwide, who can also be underneath investigation by Chelsea with the membership insisting he “has by no means knowingly used any banned substances,” might face a multi-year ban if discovered responsible by the FA.
Mudryk was noticed ringside eventually Saturday’s boxing heavyweight title combat between his countryman Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury.
When requested if he had been given time away from Chelsea, Maresca mentioned: “In this second it is also good he can disconnect a bit bit from the scenario. The final time I spoke with him, we tried to help him however on this second we’re ready.”
Maresca additionally backed his former membership Manchester City to beat their malaise to combat for the Premier League title this season.
City have misplaced 9 of their final 12 video games throughout all competitions and sit in seventh place, 12 factors adrift of leaders Liverpool.
“I feel Man City on the finish will likely be there,” Maresca added. “They are in a second that by no means occurred earlier than. Every time they play a sport, they’ve some accidents. They haven’t got sufficient gamers on this second.
“The ones they’ve are most likely not 100 per cent as a result of they only come again from damage. It’s a really unhealthy scenario however I feel it’s for everybody when one thing like this occurs.”
