Official: Chelsea sign Aarón Anselmino from Boca Juniors

08/08/2024 06:07 AM

Another one for the future?

Chelsea have completed the signing of defender Aarón Anselmino from Boca Juniors, with the 19-year-old putting pen to paper on a seven-year contract. Chelsea are reportedly paying over $20m for this transfer.

We've made quite a few such signings in recent windows: hopefully some of them will indeed pay off in the future rather than just weigh down our finances and clutter up our loan and development pathways. To wit, Anselmino will now go back to Argentina to finish out at least this calendar year on loan at Boca, but probably stay through to next summer as well. His prospect will then be reevaluated.

Anselmino is highly rated but highly inexperienced at senior level. Hopefully he can start earning some minutes with Boca soon: he's recently returned from a muscle injury, but has made just one league appearance this year.

Welcome, Aarón. See you sometime in the future.