Sunday, 3 July 2016

Premier League: Chelsea sign Belgian striker Michy Batshuayi in a five-year contract

"Chelsea Football Club would Michy Batshuayi completed to announce his transfer from Marseille today," the club said on its website.

Reports in France suggested that the transfer fee in the region of € 40 million (£ 32.9 million, $ 44.4 million) was, although Londoners are yet to confirm how much they paid.

Michy Batshuayi Belgium. Getty

Michy Batshuayi Belgium. Getty

Chelsea described the attacker as fast as "strong, fast and highly sought-after and with a reputation as a fine finish."

Then he became the third current Belgian Euro 2016 international team for the London club follows on the footsteps of Chelsea Didier Drogba to Marseille legendary switch to Stamford Bridge.

"Eden Hazard and Thibaut Courtois me many good things about the club told" Batshuayi said his countrymen.

"And with Antonio Conte, who comes to an exciting time is now a Chelsea player to be," he added.

"This is a fantastic opportunity for me and my family, I look forward to the next season in the Premier League to play," said Batshuayi whose parents come from the DRC.

A company € 6,500,000 Standard Liege in 2014, Batshuayi scored 17 goals in Ligue 1 last season and 23 times in all competitions in pretty bad outfit Marseille finished 13th in France.

At the age of 22 years old, however, part of the Belgian team in the Euro 2016 and with his first touch was scored on his debut in the tournament, a center of his new teammates conversion, Chelsea chance 4 -0 victory in Hungary.

Batshuayi spent his first season in Marseille as a coating André-Pierre Gignac before the international left France for Mexican side Tigres at the end of last season negatively.

Although he signed a contract extension in January, which will be at the club until 2020, was expected to leave Marseille this summer scramble to balance their books or a transfer ban over.

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