Benoît Badiashile now leaves Monaco for Chelsea
Only the formalization was missing. She fell this Thursday via a nice video from AS Monaco.
“The club of my childhood… Time flies but the memories will remain forever. I had a lot of dreams in my head and AS Monaco helped me to realize some of them”can we hear from Benoît Badiashile. “I arrived as a child and I leave as a man. A huge thank you to all the staff, to the members of the Academy, to all my coaches and my teammates. Thank you also to the fans for supporting him and the love you gave me”.
Absent from the match sheet against Brest on Sunday, Benoît Badiashile had been authorized by the club to go to London, where he successfully passed his medical examination at the start of the week.
His transfer is revealed at just under 40 million euros in bonuses included. The 21-year-old central defender, whose contract at ASM ran until June 2024, has signed up for a seven-and-a-half-year long contract with the Blues, 10th in the Premier League (with two games behind) .
Benoît Badiashile should be presented this Thursday evening at Stamford Bridge before the match between Chelsea and Manchester City.
Launched by Thierry Henry
This is a page that turns for the Rock club. Trained at AS Monaco, Badiashile signed his first professional contract in February 2018 at the age of 16.
Launched into the deep end by Thierry Henry, he played his first pro game in a defeat
4-0 against PSG before continuing two weeks later with a start in the Champions League against Atlético Madrid.
At 21, the native of Limoges has since come a long way and has already played 135 games with the club du Rocher (6 goals). Captain of the Blueberries, he celebrated his first two selections with the France team last September.
Courted by many major European clubs, Badiashile had the opportunity to leave this summer but he did not want to go against the club’s wishes to keep him.
He will now experience a new major stage in his career across the Channel