WAYN: Adrian Mutu

Adrian Mutu born January 8th, 1979 in Calinesti, Romania joined Chelsea on August 14th, 2003 from Parma for 15.8 million pounds.  He is a Striker who can also play attacking midfielder and as noted before on this blog he started out at Chelsea with 4 goals in 3 matches.  Then as we discussed earlier his contract was terminated for testing positive for cocaine use, as a result of that he had his contract terminated and has been ruled to pay Chelsea 17 million euro compensation.  He was sacked on October 29th, 2004 and on January 12th, 2005 he signed a 5 year contract with Juventus even though he was banned until May 2005.  Fiorentina then paid 8 million euro for his services on July 8th, 2006 and he still plays there.  His final Chelsea stats 38 appearances and 10 goals.