Chelsea Champions League winning manager Roberto di Matteo is delighted with their deal for RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner.

Werner is the second player to agree a move to Stamford Bridge in the summer window following Ajax star Hakim Ziyech.

"When I was at Schalke he was at Stuttgart and he was just coming on to the scene," explained Di Matteo to the club's website. "During the second part of the season, before I left, I was planning with my sporting director.

"I was saying I wanted to sign this guy, he's good. He was young, quick, technically good. I said 'can we not sign this boy Timo'.

"We didn't in the end and then I resigned and so on. Then I went to Villa. Stuttgart, the season after, they got relegated, and so I enquired again to sign him, but then Leipzig signed him on."

He added: "I'm a big fan of his and he's developed really, really well as well.

"He's a goal scorer, he scores goals, so he can guarantee a certain amount of goals for the team, which is very good, and he's very pacey as well, he's fast."