Chelsea have announced that Tosin Adarabioyo will join them from fellow London club Fulham before the start of next season.
The Blues made the announcement in a statement on Friday.
“Chelsea is pleased to announce centre-back Tosin Adarabioyo will join the club ahead of the 2024/25 season,” the club said.
“The 26-year-old has signed a four-year contract – which begins on July 1 – and arrives from west London neighbours Fulham.
After signing for the Blues, Adarabioyo said: “Chelsea is a huge club and this is a full-circle moment for me. I was born three miles away from Stamford Bridge and made my professional debut there.
“I’m very excited and looking forward to helping push the club in the direction we want to go.”
Born in London but raised in Manchester, Adarabioyo began his career with Manchester City at the age of five.
He moved through the club’s youth ranks and regularly captained the U-18s at 16 years old.
His professional debut arrived in February 2016 at Stamford Bridge. He started for a youthful Man City side in the FA Cup and went on to make seven more first-team appearances across the following two campaigns.
His first campaign as a Premier League regular yielded 33 appearances and much praise for his adaptation to the top flight. He featured for Fulham on 44 occasions the following season and played an important role in the club securing promotion from the Championship.
He has gone on to make 45 top-flight appearances since Fulham’s return to the Premier League, helping the Cottagers finish tenth and 13th respectively in the past two seasons.
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Nigeria well done oo. The whole time this boy was in Fulham you did not look his way upon all our cries. Now he have moved to chelsea and Harry Maguire has Lost form. It will be too late. You people busy searching NPFL and down for so called talents that should be focusing on CHAN.. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! NAWA O.. I tell you people if SA for instance have the amount of talent scattered around the world like Nigeria and this coach they have they will not only qualify they will win the WC. Here we have it but sadly we are run buy a bunch of Area Boys and criminals forming like administrators lol
It’s certainly the end of the road for him playing for Nigeria, England will surely call him up once he becomes a.regular at Chelsea.
Who cares, 2nd hand product. Let him focus on the 3 lions