Timo Werner insists Frank Lampard was the crucial factor behind his transfer to Chelsea, revealing details of a particular conversation that informed his decision.
This week, the German international joined his Blues team-mates in training for the first time after completing a £47million switch from RB Leipzig back in June.
Werner scored an emphatic 95 goals in 159 games for the Bundesliga side, and arrives alongside former Ajax playmaker Hakim Ziyech, with Lampard also targetting an ambitious move for Bayer Leverkusen star Kai Havertz.
Werner was heavily linked with Premier League rivals Liverpool, but it was Chelsea who quickly sealed the deal, with the 24-year-old now crediting Lampard as the key influence.
"He [Lampard] was the main point; we talked a lot about things like system, like how he wants to play and sees me playing, and how the system fits to me," Werner told Chelsea's official website.
"He is a really nice guy who not only told me what he wants from me as a player because he wants to help me as a guy. He knows me now a little bit better and it fits very good between us and now I am happy to be here.
"When you have a decision to go from your old club and you come to a big club like this, it was for me a dream which came true because Chelsea is a very big club.
"I know of the players before when they won the Champions League with [Didier] Drogba, with my new manager Frank Lampard, Petr Cech as the technical advisor, it is like a little dream for me but I want to become, not a same player like them, but I want to be part of a new era here so I will play to try to give my best."
Chelsea crucially secured a Champions League spot with a final day win against Wolves, and they are expected to push on following an electric start to the transfer window.
And Werner insists his style of play will be "perfectly" suited to the Premier League.
"The style of the Premier League is very fast and my speciality is that I am really fast so I think it is perfect for me to play here," Werner added.
"It is another league in another country so I can improve myself to bring it to another level, so those are the reasons I come to the Premier League and to Chelsea.
"I'll try to score as much goals as I can for Chelsea, that is the big reason why they bought me, to bring the goals I scored in Leipzig here, and maybe score more goals than there.
"The first day is always a little bit crazy because you don't know everybody so much. And not only the team, it is always a pleasure to meet the team behind the team the first time and now I am very happy and excited to meet them."
