The Argentine forward Gonzalo Higuain will now be serenaded around Stamford Bridge after a deal was agreed between Chelsea and his parent club Juventus.
The 31-year-old will end his loan move at Serie A side AC Milan and spearhead Maurizio Sarri’s attack once again, this time in West London (SkySports).
Higuain played under the Italian at former club Napoli for a single season before moving onto the Old Lady and winning back-to-back titles in Turin.
The loan move for Higuain certainly seems to signal the end of Alvaro Morata’s time at Chelsea. The Spaniard has been cast out into the cold with the dazzling Eden Hazard shifted upfront in recent games. Morata has been dropped from the Blues squad entirely in five of the last seven league occasions and with Sevilla, Atletico Madrid, and Barcelona circling, the striker will no doubt find his passage out of Chelsea eased with Higuain’s arrival. It is generally expected that Hazard will be shifted out onto his preferred left wing.
Though many speculate it may be a little too long, a little too late to bring in a player on the wrong side of 30 as a major January signing, Higuain's pedigree certainly holds weight.
Higuain has been included in the Serie A Team of the Year three times, so complement his dual Scudettos. His career statistics are extremely impressive, having scored 290 in 569 competitive appearances, and also contributed close to a century of assists.
HGis career began back in his homeland with River Plate, before moving to Real Madrid and then onto Italy in a €40million move to Napoli where he spent three years before transferring for a €90million fee to Juve in 2016, making him at the time the third most expensive footballer in history.
From his time at Real Madrid, he’s also won more La Liga titles than Cristiano Ronaldo, whose arrival at Juventus last summer pushed out Higuain out on his loan move to the rossoneri.
