After Chelsea’s €100 million signing from Shakhtar Donetsk, Mykhailo Mudryk, finally scored his first Premier League goal it seems timely to see how other Ukrainian footballers are doing in Europe.
By 2014, their wage bill was crippling and they ceased operations in 2016 due to insolvency; they were expelled from the Ukrainian League and their owner had basically ‘done a runner’ and left Ukraine.
The Russian rouble currency continues to plummet amid Western sanctions in response to Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, with a chyron beamed above a skyscraper labelling him a 'd****head'