FOCUSED. Driven. Fearless. English football, meet Christopher Nkunku.
Chelsea’s brand new £52m striker strolls through a sliding door at the glitzy Waldorf Astoria hotel in Atlanta and takes a seat. The clock says 22:15pm local time.
Nkunku, 25, must be tired. He is mid-way through his first pre-season at the club and has been at the mercy of boss Mauricio Pochettino’s notoriously brutal running sessions.
He laughed: “I came late, and spoke with my teammates and they said: ‘It’s very hard’.”
But Nkunku is not here, in his first interview with the English press, to complain about fatigue on this breathless tour of the United States.