Chelsea Set To Complete £47.5m Timo Werner Signing

By Bimbo Ogunnaike

Chelsea Football Club of England are on the verge of completing the signing of RB Leipzig lethal striker,Timo Werner for a fee of £47.5 million.

The Blues boss Frank Lampard revealed how his conversations with the Germany international played a part in convincing him over a switch to Stamford Bridge

Werner, who is considered one of Europe’s top strikers having excelled for RB Leipzig over the last four years,  will complete a move to Chelsea in July having agreed a  £170,000-a-week contract with the club.

Liverpool were the first to be link with the player but Chelsea  won the race to sign the in-form striker, with Lampard revealing he has been tracking Werner’s progress for a while now. He told reporters: “I think he’s clearly a player that we liked.

“I’ve certainly followed him for a long time myself, individually, just as a talented player, even before I had this job. But as a club, clearly we went for him, and he certainly will strengthen us in my opinion.

“He’s got huge talent, had a fantastic season this year but before that as well. Where we probably couldn’t do as much business in the last couple of windows for whatever reasons, it’s given us a chance to see some youth have more time in the team.

“But we were very clear about the fact we wanted to improve and Timo Werner is always a signing that will improve us. I’m certainly very excited to have him playing for Chelsea and we look forward to having him,” lampard said.