On their homepage, Chelsea announced that striker Christopher Nkunku will join the team from the 2023/23 season. The French player moved from RB Leipzig and will sign a 6-year contract with The Blues.
Speaking about his move to Chelsea, Nkunku said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Chelsea. They have made a huge effort to bring me here. I am looking forward to meeting the manager and my new team-mates and showing the Chelsea supporters what I can do on the pitch.
Having played in Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, I now want to challenge myself in the Premier League, one of the strongest leagues in the world . I am excited for this challenge and feel proud to be wearing the Chelsea shirt."
Bundesliga Player of the Year 2022, Christopher Nkunku is officially a Chelsea player (photo: Euro Football)
According to expert Fabrizio Romano, the transfer deal for Nkunku between RB Leipzig was actually finalized in the summer transfer window of 2022. The fee is around 60 million euros.
Nkunku graduated from the famous French national football academy Clairefontaine and began his professional career at Paris Saint-Germain. Here, the striker born in 1997 made 78 appearances for the first team, winning 3 Ligue 1 titles and 2 Coupe de France titles before moving to RB Leipzig in the summer of 2019.
The move to the Bundesliga was certainly the right move for Nkunku, who has built a reputation as one of the best strikers in European football. The France international's peak season came in the 2021/22 season, when he scored 35 goals in all competitions to help RB Leipzig win the German Cup. That same year, Nkunku was named Bundesliga Player of the Season and German PFA Player of the Season.
In the 2022/23 season, despite being affected by injuries, Nkunku still scored 23 goals. Of which, 16 were in the Bundesliga, helping the 25-year-old striker win the Golden Boot. Nkunku's brilliance greatly contributed to Leipzig's third-place finish in the Bundesliga and successful defense of the German Cup.
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