Chelsea striker, Tammy Abraham leaves Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea to join Roma, managed by Jose Mourinho.
Abraham, flew to Italy on Sunday for a medical after the management of Roma completed the deal with European champions Chelsea over the weekend.
The 23-year-old England striker was Chelsea’s joint-top goalscorer enjoying his play under the management of Frank Lampard until Thomas Tuchel took over from Lampard as Cheleas’s manager in January this year leading to his play getting limited.
Tammy Abraham has joined Roma from Chelsea on a five-year contract for £34m.
Champions League winners Chelsea re-signed Romelu Lukaku for a club-record £97.5m from Inter Milan on Thursday.
Tammy Abraham joins Roma: Townflex.com understands that Chelsea has a £68m buyback option on the 23-year-old England international set at £68m.
New No. 9⃣ … 𝙎𝙊𝙍𝙏𝙀𝘿 🔥
Welcome to Roma, @tammyabraham! 🏴
#ASRoma | @NBFootball pic.twitter.com/RdxjcL5br5— AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) August 17, 2021
“You can sense when a club really wants you – and Roma made their interest clear immediately,”
“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.” Abraham said about Roma.
Thank you, @tammyabraham. 💙 pic.twitter.com/iqXLMnTe2B
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) August 17, 2021
