Chelsea have added continued to bolster their squad with the signing of Italian wonderkid Cesare Casadei.
According to Fabrizio Romano, a £12.6million deal has been completed with Inter. Casadei is due in London imminently to sign a deal after agreeing personal terms on a four-year contract.
But what kind of player are Chelsea getting? Here’s everything you need to know about the highly-rated young star.
Who is he?
Casadei was born and raised in Ravenna in the north of Italy, in January 2003, back when Marcello Lippi’s Juventus reigned supreme in Serie A while Inter legend Christian Vieri was topping the goalscoring charts.
The youngster started out his development in the youth ranks of local side Cervia and now-defunct fallen giants Cesena before moving to Inter as a 15-year-old back in 2018. It was then that he started representing Italy at youth level, appearing regularly for the Azzurri’s Under-16s before rising through the ranks up to the Under-19s.
Soon enough Casadei began to catch the eye in Inter’s youth ranks. He was named in The Guardian’s annual Next Generation series back in 2020.
During the 2019-20 season, he scored 10 goals in 15 appearances for Inter’s Under-17s in the Campiatano Nazionale and has seamlessly stepped up at every level since.
He scored on his Under-19s debut against Sampdoria in January 2020 and scored a towering header with a match-winner against Rennes in his UEFA Youth League debut.
Cesare Casadei – Chelsea’s new wonderkid?
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Last term he notched 14 goals and four assists in 30 appearances in the Primavera youth league and was named the division’s best player, developing his game under Under-19s boss Christian Chivu.
That form led to some in the Italian press questioning why Simone Inzaghi was reluctant to hand the teenager his senior debut. He made the bench on one occasion for the Nerazzurri but never made it onto the pitch.
“Cesare Casadei has many admirers – because he’s scored numerous goals (17) and combines technique with physicality (1.86 m in height),” tweeted Italian journalist Maurizio Pistocchi in July. “But the real question is: why has Inzaghi never used him, even for five minutes, while Palermo, Torino, Sassuolo, and Chelsea all want to invest in him?”
Indeed, the reports that Chelsea were keenly scouting the youngster have since been proven true. Italian journalist…
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