AS Monaco continues its work in this summer transfer window. After announcing the departures of Axel Disasi (Chelsea) and Jean Lucas (Santos), the fourth in Ligue 1 during the season which has just ended has just formalized the arrival of his third summer recruit, in addition to Phillip Kohn (ex-RB Salzburg) and Mohamed Salisu (ex-Southampton). This is the Swiss midfielder Denis Zakaria, who arrives from Juventus, as we revealed to you on our site.
It was the club du Rocher which announced the news via a press release on its official website: “AS Monaco is pleased to announce the arrival of Denis Zakaria. The 26-year-old Swiss international midfielder has signed up for five seasons and is now linked to the Principality club until June 2028. He signed up for nearly 20 million euros.
An encouraging loan to Chelsea
Arrived on the side of Juventus from Borussia Mönchengladbach against 8.6 million euros bonus included at the end of the summer transfer window 2022, the Swiss midfielder was supposed to bring a new breath in the Piedmontese midfield, in particular overcoming the departure of Rodrigo Bentancur at Tottenham. After six interesting months but truncated by injuries (15 TCC matches with the Bianconeri, 1 goal and 1 assist), the Nati international (49 caps, 3 goals) was finally loaned to Chelsea the following season.
A first experience in England which does not go as planned for the native of Genf, since he has to wait until November to finally have his first appearances in the blue jersey, and even at the end of December to discover the Premier League under orders by Graham Potter. In the end, the one nicknamed The Octopus (the octopus in English) will come out of this loan with only 11 games (, notably showing himself against Manchester City in the league. Hoping to find his level of Borussia in the jersey diagonally …
