It’s a rumor – OM’s interest in Mykhailo Mudryk’s profile – that is circulating this Thursday on social networks, from the TEAMtalk account, without being able to verify its thickness. Except that when reading the figures that we will detail below, the operation seems very complicated or even improbable, for an Olympique de Marseille already very concerned about the transfer window. And let’s not forget that UEFA keeps an eye on its financial fair play rules.
OM are reportedly targeting Mykhailo Mudryk. But is this really possible?
Even if we admit the hypothesis of a loan with an option to buy, because the player has emoluments that are those of a leader of the OM locker room. We will come back to this later. Because already, there is the supposed form of the transfer. On loan with an option to buy, as the Marseille club likes to tie? Certainly, but Mykhailo Mudryk, a 23-year-old winger, has been a Chelsea player since the winter transfer window of 2023. To recruit him from Shakhtar Donetsk, who trained him, the London club paid a transfer fee close to 100 million euros. Bonuses included.
Of course, he is not worth as much today and of course Chelsea, with its plethora of players, could want to part with him at the next transfer window. Even if it means cutting back on its own spending. The fact remains that as it stands, Mudryk is valued at at least 35 million euros by Transfermarkt, but up to 68.6 million euros by the football observatory, at the beginning of this summer.
Valuation as salary, the figures are enormous for Marseille
The Ukrainian international has years of contract left to compensate, having signed with the Blues for seven and a half years, until June 2031. So much for the figures of his market valuation, in terms of salary it is not much more modest for an Olympique de Marseille, although ambitious, limited in its room for maneuver. This 2024-2025 season, Mykhailo Mudryk is approaching 6.2 million in salary, more or less depending on the exchange rate of the pound sterling against the euro. This is the remuneration of a premium executive in the Marseille locker room, but OM has already recruited leaders this season, against the guarantee of salaries in line, whether they are paid directly this season or the following one as in the deal made with Adrien Rabiot.
