Former Chelsea striker Timo Werner is now back in English football after signing a loan deal to play for Tottenham Hotspur until the end of the season.
Werner left England after two rough years at Stamford Bridge to return to Red Bull Leipzig in the 2022/23 season. The 27-year-old German now has a chance to redeem himself in the Premier League with Spurs.
Reports indicated that Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou was key in making the transfer happen, and Werner has spoken up in agreement.
“First of all, I’m very happy to be here, I’ve joined a very, very big club, we have often played against each other already – it doesn’t matter if I was playing for Chelsea or Leipzig, they were always big, big games to play against Spurs – and now I’m happy to be part of the team at the Club and I’m really looking forward to it”, he said in his exclusive first interview with the Spurs media team, SPURSPLAY.
“A lot of things attracted me here – first of all, the talk with the manager. I thought it was a really good talk, he gave me straight away the feeling that I need to join a club, what I want to feel when you talk to a manager and also the tactics and the style, how he wants to play, how he lets the team play. For me I thought straight away that it fits perfectly. Then the stadium, to play there every game is something special and also the team, I think we have some very good players. All of it was very interesting to me.”
Werner also stated that he has not stopped following the Premier League despite leaving over a year ago. He also claimed that Spurs was one of the clubs he followed often, which made it easy for him to accept the proposal when it came.
The player also stated that he is hopeful of becoming the best player he can be while donning the colours of the North London Club for the next six months.
“I hope that I can be the best player I can be here”, he continued. “The people who have followed me a little bit in the Premier League, they know that I can bring my speed, that I can be a threat for the opponents so that’s what I want to bring into the team and off the pitch I think I can be a funny guy and I hope that I can arrive well into the team and that they are happy with me and my personality.”
“One-and-a-half years ago I left England, I watched the Premier League, not too much to follow every single club but Tottenham was always a club which I watched. When I joined my old club, I said I wanted to be a winner and I wanted to win titles at the end, and in the end we won the Champions League so I think it shouldn’t be too bad to say that I’ve come here to also win titles and to win something.”
