OFFICIAL: Baba Rahman joins Reading on loan from Chelsea
Ghana and Chelsea left-back Baba Rahman has rejoined English Championship side Reading FC in what is a seventh loan spell from the London club.
“We are delighted to announce that Baba Rahman has sealed a return to Reading Football Club for a second season-long loan spell in blue and white hoops.” Reading FC confirmed
It’s the second successive loan spell for Baba at Bearwood Park ahead of an impressive campaign spent as a Royal last season; the Ghanaian international registered a total of 29 starts at left-back during Reading’s 150th-anniversary campaign and made a crucial contribution in their fight for Championship survival last season.
During that campaign, he also represented Ghana alongside Royals skipper Andy Yiadom in the Africa Cup of Nations – and he will be hoping for another successful season as a Reading player ahead of this winter’s FIFA World Cup Finals in Qatar.
Head of Football Operations, Mark Bowen, said: “Through his energetic, wholehearted and powerful performances on the pitch and his infectious character off it, Baba became something of a fans favorite here at Reading last season. Since the day his loan spell ended in the summer, we have been hoping to bring him back and I am very pleased we have been able to secure his services for the 2022-23 campaign.”
Baba, who turned 28 last month, was born in Tamale in the north of Ghana and he won the Ghanian Premier League with Asante Kokoto in 2011-12 whilst still a teenager. He arrived in Europe in 2012, spending three seasons in Germany with Greuther Furth and Augsburg before a move to Stamford Bridge in 2015.
His Blues debut came in September of that year – in a 4-0 win over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the Champions League – and his domestic bow followed a week later in a 4-1 victory at Walsall in the Capital One Cup.
Comments (0)