Chelsea midfielder Jorginho hailed new signing Kalidou Koulibaly as a real leader as he expressed his delight at being reunited with his former Napoli team-mate at Stamford Bridge.
The Premier League club signed Koulibaly from the Partenopei last week for a reported fee of £33.8million (€40m), with the Senegal captain penning a four-year contract.
Koulibaly made 236 Serie A appearances during a distinguished eight-year spell with Napoli, helping them to three second-placed finishes and one Coppa Italia triumph.
Jorginho starred alongside Koulibaly during the defender s first four seasons in Italy, and the pair are now set to link-up in England.
The Italy international has revealed he discussed such a reunion with Koulibaly on several occasions after making his own move to west London in 2018, as he lauded the defender for his leadership abilities.
We spoke a lot about it, Jorginho told the club s website. Even before I came here Chelsea were interested in him, and finally now it s happening so it s really good.
I am so, so happy he s here. As a player, he s a brilliant defender – fast, strong and he has so much quality on the ball with both feet. He s also a real leader.
We ve stayed in contact since I left Napoli.
He speaks better English already than I do so that will be good for him to help settle in. It s going to be really easy for him because of the person he is.
Of course, we will help him to make it maybe a bit easier for him to get involved with team-mates and everything, but even if he didn t know us it would be easy for him because he s such a good guy.
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