By Daily Sports Nigeria on July 16, 2022

Chelsea have completed a deal to sign Napoli centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly for a fee in the region of £33m.

The central defender, who has 62 caps for Senegal, has signed a four-year contract worth around £160,000 per week (£8.2m a year) net plus bonuses to move to Stamford Bridge. He flew out to Las Vegas on Friday to join up with his new team-mates on their pre-season tour of USA.

Koulibaly, who was also interesting Juventus, had just one year left on his Napoli contract, and his signing follows the £47.5m capture of Raheem Sterling from Manchester City.

"I'm very happy to be here with this team at Chelsea," Koulibaly said in a statement. "It's a big team in the world and my dream was always to play in the Premier League.

"Chelsea came first to get me in 2016 but we didn't make it. Now when they came to me I accepted it because they really wanted me to come to the Premier League to play for them."

Chelsea forward Timo Werner welcomed Koulibaly's new arrival at the club, insisting he fits the bill perfectly.

"He is a brilliant defender who will give us strength at the back and is exactly what we need after a lot of defenders left us," he told Sky Sports.

"He is a very good player from what I saw from him when I played against him with Napoli, so he is just what we need."

Source Sporting Sun

Posted July 16, 2022

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