Chelsea transfer news: Blues beat Manchester United to sign Edwin Andersson from IFK Gothenburg
The 16-year-old has been compared to Callum Hudson-Odoi and Cristiano Ronaldo
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Your support makes all the difference.Chelsea have won the race to sign IFK Gothenburg’s 16-year-old winger Edwin Andersson.
The Blues reportedly beat off competition from Manchester United and already had a deal in place before the end of the January transfer window.
Though the highly-rated winger will wait to make the move to London until the summer.
Andersson will be the second signing since Chelsea’s transfer ban was lifted after the addition of academy talent Bryan Fiabema last month.
“It is a dream come true. Chelsea was the club that suited me best and it is a club with incredibly good conditions,” Andersson told Svenska Fans.
“I usually stick to the left and would well describe myself as a technical player, fast, and like to challenge a lot 1 to 1 and create chances.
“Yes I have (visited Stamford Bridge). Magical arena!”
While Gothenburg’s academy boss Jonas Olsson insisted the move was evidence of the club’s good work.
“We of course wish Edwin good luck,” Olsson said.
“We would have liked to have seen him stay with us but that he is being recruited to Chelsea is a good mark on our business.”
His father Mikael Andersson compared his son to Cristiano Ronaldo and current Blues winger Callum Hudson-Odoi.
“There have been an incredible number of clubs from virtually all countries that have been interested in him,” Andersson told Expressen.
“But he has chosen to go to Chelsea when it’s time. According to the rules he must be 16 first and then it is up to the clubs to agree. There’s still some details, but the day it’s time he has decided that it’ll be Chelsea.
“It is a chance you can take if the package is right. They have very good education and care about you as a human being, which one might not believe. It is the dream of every boy to have such an opportunity, that is where we are now. But it should be the right conditions, otherwise it will be nothing.
“He’s pretty much like Callum Hudson-Odoi at Chelsea. When he was younger, he was a little more like Ronaldo. He mainly stays on the left.”
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