Tammy Abraham has become the latest young English player to head overseas, joining Jose Mourinho’s Roma.
Roma have completed the signing of Tammy Abraham from Chelsea for a fee of €40million (£34.1million)
Abraham has singed a five year contract with the Serie A club to fill the void left by Edin Dzeko’s departure to Inter Milan.
Chelsea will further reportedly receive a further €5m in add-ons and have an option to re-sign the 23 year-old who fell down the pecking order following Romelu Lukaku’s return to Stamford Bridge.
Arsenal were linked with the 6ft 3 striker, put he has chosen to head to Roma to try and kickstart his career under the Portuguese coach.
“You can sense when a club really wants you-and Roma really made their interest clear immediately,” Abraham who will wear the number nine shirt, told Roma’s official website.
Roma is a club that deserves to be fighting for titles and trophies. I’ve had the experience of winning major trophies and I want to be in those competitions again- so I want to help this team to achieve that and get to the level where Roma should be.
“It’s a massive honour to be the number nine at this club and I just can’t wait to get started and to help the team.”
After scoring 15 PL goals in the 2019/2020 season when Frank Lampard was in charge, Tammy saw his opportunities diminish under the new coach Thomas Tuchel last term.
The 23 year-old started only three Premier league fixtures following the appointment of the German tactician in late January and did not feature in the knockout stages of the Champions league as Chelsea went on to lift the trophy in Porto.
He also missed out on England’s squad for the delayed Euro 2020 finals with Dominic Calvert-Lewis preferred by Gareth Southgate as a direct back up for Harry Kane.
Abraham will be hoping to have similar success in Serie A as another England International, Chris Smalling who rejuvenated his career with a loan switch to Roma in 2019-20 which was made permanent last year. SOURCE: theguardian.com