Italian membership Roma signed ahead Tammy Abraham from Chelsea for 40 million euros ($47 million) on Tuesday.
Abraham replaces Edin Džeko, who moved to Serie A champion Inter Milan final week.
“You can sense when a club really wants you — and Roma made their interest clear immediately,” mentioned Abraham, who signed a five-year contract with the Serie A membership.
Abraham progressed by the ranks at Chelsea and scored 30 objectives in 82 video games. He additionally had mortgage spells at Bristol City, Swansea and Aston Villa.
The 23-year-old Abraham, who has performed six instances for England, helped Chelsea win the Champions League final season.
Roma completed seventh in Serie A final season and has not claimed a trophy since profitable the Italian Cup in 2008. The staff is now coached by José Mourinho.
“Roma is a club that deserves to be fighting for titles and trophies,” Abraham mentioned. “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.”
Abraham is the membership’s fourth signing of the offseason, following the arrivals of goalkeeper Rui Patrício, ahead Eldor Shomurodov and defender Matías Viña.
“Despite still being very young, with a huge amount of potential to keep improving, Tammy has already played more than 200 games in his career and scored over 100 goals — and won a number of major trophies, too,“ Roma general manager Tiago Pinto said. “Choosing to leave the Premier League, and the club he grew up at, demonstrates very clearly just how much he believes in this opportunity to develop his own game and show what he can do at Roma.”
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