Transfer deadline: Chelsea striker Joins Belgian Club

Chelsea on Friday, confirmed that 20-year-old striker, Charlie Brown, has left the club to join Belgian club, Royale Union Saint-Gilloise.

Brown joined Chelsea from Ipswich Town in the summer of 2016. He has scored five goals in 18 appearances this season for the junior Blues.

Chelsea made this known in a statement on their official website.

The statement read: “Academy striker Charlie Brown is the latest Chelsea player to move on loan for the remainder of the 2019/20 season.

“The 20-year-old, who has five goals in 18 appearances this season for our development squad side, is joining Belgian club Royale Union Saint-Gilloise. It is his first loan.

“Brown joined Chelsea from Ipswich Town in the summer of 2016 and enjoyed a prolific maiden season for the Blues’ Under-18s, notching 10 goals in 20 league appearances, most of which were as a substitute. That form was rewarded with a development squad debut before the end of the campaign.

“In the UEFA Youth League in 2017/18, he scored during his first European appearance, a 5-0 victory against Qarabag, before netting in the return in Azerbaijan and at Atletico Madrid in the group stage.

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“That season he also helped Jody Morris’s Under-18s to an unprecedented quadruple with goals in the FA Youth Cup semi-final against Birmingham and the inaugural Under-18 Premier League Cup final against Tottenham.”