Abraham agnostic about Chelsea return
FT Desk
- 7 Oct 2022 20:37 BST
- 3 min read
Chelsea have a buy-back clause on Tammy Abraham that kicks in next summer, but the England striker seems to be perfectly happy at Roma…
Abraham joined Chelsea as a seven-year-old back in 2004 and, unlike so many in the Blues academy, graduated to the first team in 2016 before breaking into the England squad.
But when the Blues spent €110 million on fellow striker Romelu Lukaku from Inter Milan last summer, the writing seemed to be on the wall, and Abraham secured a two-year loan to Roma which included a buyback fee of €80m.
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Abraham duly plundered 27 goals in all competitions for Jose Mourinho's side last season, while Lukaku could only muster 15 by the same measure for Chelsea before being allowed to return to Inter on loan.
Now there is a new era at Chelsea, with manager Thomas Tuchel replaced by Graham Potter under the new ownership led by American billionaire Todd Boehly, and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang finds himself leading the line.
Opportunity knocking?
The former Arsenal captain and Barcelona striker is 33, though, and there could be an opportunity for Abraham to return as first choice next season. When that was put to him, he was non-committal, though.
"For me, my focus is to do exactly what I did last year," he told Ojb Sport after Roma's 2-1 loss to Real Betis in the Europa League on Thursday. "I'm happy here."
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"The team is good. The manager is good. The city, the fans… I am happy, but you never know the future, only God knows the future."
Abraham is one of three capped England players plying their trade in Italy right now, alongside Fikayo Tomori - a fellow Chelsea academy graduate who is at AC Milan on a permanent basis - and Chris Smalling, the former Manchester United man is Abraham's teammate at Roma.
