Foot: Chelsea breaks its piggy bank for the transfer of Frenchman Wesley Fofana

The English clubs of Leicester and Chelsea announced on Wednesday that they had reached an agreement for the transfer of Frenchman Wesley Fofana for an amount not disclosed, but estimated by the press at more than 70 million pounds (82 M EUR).

This sum would make him one of the three most expensive defenders in the history of the Premier League with Harry Maguire, who arrived at Manchester United for 78.3 M GBP (87 M EUR) and Virgil van Dijk, who moved to Liverpool for GBP 77m (EUR 85m).

He would also pass Lucas Hernandez as the most expensive French defender in history, Bayern Munich having paid 80 M EUR in 2019.

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”, welcomed the Londoners in their press release, specifying that the former Stéphanois would commit for seven years.

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,” said Fofana, who had gone to conflict with his coach Brendan Rodgers to obtain his exit voucher and found himself in the press release. train with the reserves.

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He is the fourth big signing for Chelsea this summer, with the Blues spending over £140m (€165m) to bring in Marc Cucurella from Brigton, Raheem Sterling from Manchester City and Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli.