Adrian Mutu told to pay Chelsea £14.6m for cocaine sacking

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The Romanian striker was told by the game's highest court of appeal that his bid to quash a Fifa decision to award Chelsea the record sum in damages for a football dispute has been dismissed.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered Mutu to pay the compensation after finding that he had breached his contract.

Mutu was fired in October 2004 after testing positive for cocaine.

He was banned from football for seven months 14 months after Chelsea paid £15 million to sign him from Parma in 2003.

The club received nothing when Mutu joined Italian club Juventus as a 26-year-old free agent after serving his ban. Mutu, 30, now plays for another Italian club, Fiorentina.

The court said: "We have today dismissed the appeal filed by the Romanian football player, Adrian Mutu, against the decision rendered by the Fifa Dispute Resolution Chamber on 7 May 2008 in which he was ordered to pay £14.6 million in compensation to his former club, Chelsea FC, for breach of contract."

A spokesman for Chelsea FC said: "This vindicates all of our actions throughout this case."