Chelsea look set to complete their fifth January signing after hijacking Arsenal's move for Mykhaylo Mudryk, despite the Gunners submitting a third bid and being the closest they had ever been to agreeing a deal, as football.london understands.
Todd Boehly and co. were pushing for a transfer hijack of Mudryk earlier in the window after meeting Dario Srna at Stamford Bridge last Thursday to discuss a deal for Mudryk, but in the days following, talk surrounding Mudryk from a Chelsea perspective went quiet - until now.
Paul Winstanley and other senior Chelsea figures are understood to have travelled to Turkiye to secure the deal after Arsenal technical director Edu headed to Poland as the race to sign Mudryk heated up. Now it appears the battle has been won by the Blues, who have now reached an agreement with Shakhtar, offering £62million up front with £26.5million available in add-ons, as revealed by Fabrizio Romano.
