ATSU MOVES TO CHELSEA FROM PORTUGAL
Posted on: Sun 01 Sep 2013

The transfer of Christian Atsu from FC Porto has been completed.

The 21-year-old Ghana international, who has signed a five-year contract, will be joining Vitesse Arnhem on loan for the season.

Atsu is a left-footed attacker, capable of playing as a winger or a second striker, and joined Porto from Cheetah FC in his homeland in the January 2010 transfer window.

He quickly won individual and team youth honours including Porto's Youth Player of the Season for 2010/11.

That year he was named on the bench for a first team game by Andre Villas-Boas but was not called into action.

The 2011/12 season was spent on loan at Rio Ave, also in Portugal, where Atsu made 30 appearances in league and cup and scored six goals, earning him the club's Player of the Season award.

Breaking into the Porto first team last season, he made 17 league appearances as the club won the Portuguese championship, and he gained European experience with eight Champions League games, including a Round of 16 tie against Malaga.

Atsu made his debut for Ghana in June 2012, scoring against Lesotho in a World Cup qualifier, and has been a regular since. He played and scored in the Africa Cup of Nations at the beginning of the year.
Source: Chelsea FC official website.

Chelsea's B team is Vitesse. COME ON VITESSE! :)

We now have a total of 20 young players with a great potential on Loan gaining experience.

Thank god we got him, we really lacked depth in the midfield.

Why did they buy him if they lended him......

^Football Investment? He seems a very promising player and we signed him for only 3.5 million

@Volk: It's basically a policy of buying up every young player they can, loaning them out and then seeing which ones are actually any good. ;)

It's what you do when you have tons of money but not a terribly good scout network... O:)

@Ven

Atsu is not a midfielder, but a winger. You guys have plenty of depth there, with Schurrle, Willian, De Bruyne, Hazard, Oscar, Moses, and Mata all capable of playing there.

An unnecessary buy, if you ask me.

@Lodatz I agree. But I think 95% of all those signings are terrifically brilliant, especially the recent ones ;)

@V "Atsu is a left-footed attacker, capable of playing as a winger or a second striker, and joined Porto from Cheetah FC in his homeland in the January 2010 transfer window."

You guys seem to not have understood my sarcasm :P. He can probably play LM to you know...

@Lodatz: You'd be foolish to think we don't have a good scouting network.

@Lod xD

So this is Chelsea's last signing? I read in the papers this morning that thye were planning one more... was this it?

@Rama

No, the one more was Rooney... ;)

Chelsea's signing players just for fun now. We can't sign anyone.

Gotta catch em all

No, but seriously: This is an unnecessary transfer..

Thank you, Chelsea. :-)

^ You are welcome! :) I was waiting for your comment haha. It was a good move for both sides.

What a useless transfer. So many midfielders/strikers why did he even join Chelsea?? for money? or keeping the bench warm?

^For joining our B Team. read the post jeez... and he's totally worth more than 3.5 millions it's a very good investment.