Brentford thought they’d got Mykhaylo Mudryk lined up for just £20million last summer - only for agent demands to scupper the deal.
That was the fee his old club Shakhtar Donetsk were willing to let him go for just six months ago. Yet, they will now be delighted the Bees’ bid to take the winger fell apart after Chelsea agreed to pay them three times that amount up front and almost four-and-a-half times that amount in total.
Mudryk is costing the Blues £62m now and, with performance-related add-ons, a whopping £87m all in. It is an extraordinary piece of business from both sides.
