Chelsea players who took drugs

Top Chelsea players who took drugs

Chelsea players who took drugs? Here we look at the top Chelsea players who have taken drugs in the past. Which Chelsea players have failed drugs tests? Here we find out the Chelsea players who took drugs in the past.

Football is a tough sport and if a player isn’t feeling up to the high demands of their fitness and physicality, then some players have taken to drugs to help them perform. Performance enhancing drugs have been banned for a long time now and drugs tests are performed routinely for top level athletes and footballers.

While other professional footballers have taken illegal drugs such as cocaine for recreational use. Footballers have a lot of money and when they want something, they get it. So some players have indulged in drugs use for pleasure. These recreational illegal drugs are obviously also banned. So which Chelsea players have taken drugs and been caught? Here we find out.

Top Chelsea players who took drugs

Adrian Mutu- Failed drugs test

Adrian Mutu is a former Chelsea star who failed drug tests on two different occasions.

Mutu’s situation at Chelsea was messy to say the least. He joined Chelsea FC as one of the bets strikers in Europe. But he left the club with a tarnished reputation after a number of instances including two failed drug tests and he got sacked.

After just 27 games for Chelsea, Mutu tested positive for cocaine use.

He received a seven-month ban and was sacked. He then moved to Italy where he tested positive for cocaine again while playing for Fiorentina.

Mutu was also ordered to pay Chelsea £14.7 million for breach of contract due to his failed drugs test.

Deco-failed drugs test

Deco arrived at Chelsea as a former Barcelona star with a glowing reputation as one of the best playmakers in the world. But his reputation was tarnished after not only failing to impress at Chelsea, but also for failing a drug test test after his Chelsea career.

Deco failed a drugs test in Brazil where he was playing for Fluminense.

The former Portugal international tested positive for a banned substance-a diuretic furosemide. The drug is on Fifa’s prohibited list as it can be used to hide performance-enhancing substances.

The Portuguese spent two years at Stamford Bridge between 2008 and 2010. He won the Premier League title in his second season.

Deco made more than 50 appearances for Chelsea and is one of only a few players to have won the Champions League twice; once with Porto in 2004 and Barcelona in 2006.

Mark Bosnich- Failed drugs test

Mark Bosnich is not only one of the worst Chelsea flops ever, but he also failed a drugs test.

The former goalkeeper failed a drug test with cocaine in 2002. The FA handed Bosnich a nine month suspension.

Chelsea immediately terminated his $100,000 a week contract.

Bosnich was taking 10g of cocaine a day, which cost him over $5,000 a week. He eventually retired at just 31-years-old.

Bosnich even admitted that a 21-year-old John Terry told him in front of the whole Chelsea squad that he was hanging with the wrong crowd. Terry was right and Bosnich ended up with a bad addiction which cost him his career.

Some famous non-Chelsea but Premier League players and managers found involved in drug scandals

Samir Nasri

West Ham midfielder Samir Nasri returned to football after being handed a lengthy doping ban in 2017 following his use of prohibited substances.

Nasri’s ban, which was initially six months long but then extended to 18 months following a UEFA ruling, is concluded at the end of December, last year and he now plays for West Ham United.

Pep Guardiola

After his successful playing career with Barcelona, Pep moved to Brescia in Serie A in Italy in 2001. Only a few months later he tested for the steroid nandrolone similarly like Jaap Stam. Like Stam, he protested his innocence only to receive a four-match ban and a €50,000 fine. Guardiola was furious with what he saw as the tarnishing of his reputation and campaigned against the ban long after he had left the Italian club. He was finally cleared of all charges in 2009.

Kolo Toure

Back in 2011 the then Man City defender Kolo,Kolo,Kolo,Kolo,Kolo,Kolo, Kolo Touré was banned for six months following a failed test which was believed to be due to his wife’s diet pills. Touré was the first player in the Premier League since Adrian Mutu in 2004 to fail a drugs test. Touré claimed he had taken the pills in a bid to lose weight and was unaware of any wrong doing. The FA eventually seemed to take the circumstances behind the failed test into consideration, however, Touré still had to serve the ban.

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