"I hope to be like the legends: [Marcel} Desailly, [Claude] Makelele. I hope in 20 years maybe I have my banner [at Stamford Bridge]." Wesley Fofana was not hiding his steep ambitions, he stood in front of The Shed, gazing infectiously around his new home.
Although, at only 21, the hype he is expected to fulfil from a £69m investment might feel daunting, there has quickly grown a sense of inevitability about Fofana's pathway from the early moments at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard after his breakthrough from Saint-Etienne's academy.
"Fofana was obviously outstanding from the moment he stepped into the Saint-Etienne first team." Robin Bairner, French football expert and sports writer for Football Transfers and Goal tells football.london.
