Overview
- He explains Barcelona were looking to offload either him or Memphis Depay and that Chelsea presented the sole concrete offer.
- Signed for around £10m in September 2022, he arrived days before Thomas Tuchel was sacked, leading to a poor fit under new management.
- His Chelsea return was meager with three goals in 21 games, including one in the Premier League, and he was later omitted from the Champions League squad by Graham Potter.
- He says he hoped to follow Olivier Giroud’s successful Arsenal-to-Chelsea pathway but found the move quickly unraveled.
- He left on a free to Marseille in 2023, hit a 30-goal season and a Europa League scoring mark, had a brief Saudi stint, and returned to OM in 2025, with the remarks carried by Canal+, podcasts and YouTube.