Strong smell of fuel when i took off my valve cover.. WTF?

The car has barely been driven since i picked it up a few weeks ago. I started replacing my timing belt last night and checked for shaft play on the turbo. I got home tonight and went to put on a new valve cover gasket while i had the charge pipe off.  I could smell a hint of gas the last few weeks and thought it was the seal on the gas tank or some that might have splashed onto the rear carpet as i had installed a new pump  (Old one is corroded and seized) and thought i will put a new one on after i pull and clean out the tank. When the valve cover came off it smelt like old stale gas :( the car has me stumped as i have never had this problem on any vehicle before..

 It has good compression in the cylinders, new oil/ filter, new pump and fuel filter, newish turbo with no shaft play

I am going try to pull the EGR tonight and clean it  :cantlook: and maybe price a new head gasket and bolts

Any ideas are greatly appreciated as i googled and searched on here and found nothing outside of bikes and ATVs with similar problems and no listed solutions

Thanks!

Never see that, seems dangerous, I post to follow

I ran new oil, flushed it and ran more through as a flush... It was coming out clean, so i put on the new filter and put in good oil. now it seems to be dirty, not milky like a bad head gasket but it seems a bit thin uploading some pics :(
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i think i have this problem on my vg. wen i changed the oild the new oil seemed dirty the next day. but im pretty sure i need new injectors anyway. i hope you find the solution man that dont seem good