Arsenal have agreed to sign Kai Havertz from Chelsea for a fee of £60m, plus £5m in add-ons. Havertz will sign a long-term deal having set his sights on moving to last season’s Premier League runners-up, as opposed to returning to the Bundesliga, after what has been a largely frustrating time at Stamford Bridge for the Germany forward.
He arrived from Bayer Leverkusen for an initial club record fee of £72m in August 2020 and with the reputation of being one of the most exciting young talents in Europe. There were flashes of his talents at Chelsea but, in general, he underwhelmed, in large part from being deployed as a central striker, which is not his preferred position.
