Thiago Silva has signed a brand new Chelsea settlement to be able to keep him at Stamford Bridge till the stop of the 2022/23 season.
The defender has significantly impressed considering the fact that arriving on the club in summer 2020, assisting the Blues win the Champions League closing season.
There have been some uncertainty over whether or not the 37-year-antique could stay beyond the stop of the current campaign however Chelsea showed he would be sticking round on Monday.
Director Marina Granovskaia said: "Thiago Silva's enjoy, management and performances had been and remain very vital to this squad, so we're hugely pleased to increase his contract through every other year.
"We sit up for his continued have an impact on as we are trying to find honours this season and subsequent, and extra of the traits that have caused him having one of these huge impact for us on and off the pitch."
Silva added: "To play here with Chelsea is a actual satisfaction. I in no way thought I could play for 3 years here on this first rate membership so I’m very happy to stay for another season.
"I could also like to say way to my own family, the membership, Marina and to Mr Abramovich for this possibility. I will continue to provide the whole thing for this membership and for the supporters, who've continually been by way of my facet due to the fact that I arrived.
"It’s incredible to have this relationship with the lovers and now not handiest that but the players, personnel and the entire club. I’m going to provide the entirety to hold gambling at this degree inside the maximum critical league inside the world."
News that Silva could be final in west London beyond the summer season will come as a large raise for Thomas Tuchel. Chelsea had seemed to be ambling into a protective crisis next season with Cesar Azpilicueta, Andreas Christensen and Antonio Rudiger all out of contract on the cease of the marketing campaign.
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