Chelsea striker joins Bundesliga club to play Champions League football
Chelsea striker David Datro Fofana has joined Union Berlin on loan for the duration of the 2023/24 season, a move that promises to offer the Ivory Coast international more game time. It will additionally see Fofana get the opportunity to play in the Champions League as a result of Union taking the Bundesliga by storm again last season and improving on their fifth place finish from 2021/22 to place fourth behind RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. Were Fofana to have stayed at Stamford Bridge this coming season, he wouldn't have been playing European football of any kind after the Blues recorded their lowest Premier League finish since 1994. Having impressed for Molde in Norway, Fofana was one of six additions to the Chelsea squad during an extraordinarily busy January transfer window. Only 20, he made just three Premier League appearances despite the team's struggles, but now faces further competition for places from new forward arrivals Christopher Nkunku and Nic...