Source: Eurosport
Mutu eager for compromise
Former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu has issued an open letter to FIFA and the Blues pleading for his £14.6m fine to be translated into donations to drug addiction charities.
Mutu was ordered to pay compensation by FIFA after failing a drug test while at Stamford Bridge in 2004 and could be banned from football if he does not resolve the debt.
In July, the Romanian failed to get the punishment overturned in an appeal through the Court of Arbitration for Sport who ruled the fine should stand, now the striker has admitted that he is unable to pay it and has offered to donate some cash to help youngsters affected by drug use.
"I cannot pay such a sum and no person in my condition realistically could," said the Fiorentina striker in a statement released to news outlet ANSA. "It is not an issue of intention so much as the comprehension of a rational and natural principle of inability.
"I am sorry for what happened when I was at Chelsea and I have carried that disappointment within me for years.
"I think that the best way to define this issue, with the reciprocal satisfaction of all parties, would be this: I pledge to make a significant donation to a charity on Florence or another Italian city that works to help youngsters who have been affected by drugs and an identical donation to a charity chosen by Chelsea and another in my country of Romania."
