Bertrand Traoré

Bertrand Traoré

Bertrand Isidore Traoré is a Burkinabé professional footballer. He plays as a forward for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Burkina Faso national team. He also played for French club Auxerre, before joining Chelsea’s academy in 2010. After a season in the Premier League with Chelsea, he was loaned back to the Netherlands to play for Ajax in 2016, and a year later signed for Lyon for €10million. He has also been linked with a move to Premier League side Newcastle United.

About Bertrand Traoré in brief

Summary Bertrand TraoréBertrand Isidore Traoré is a Burkinabé professional footballer. He plays as a forward for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Burkina Faso national team. After a season in the Premier League with Chelsea, he was loaned back to the Netherlands to play for Ajax in 2016, and a year later signed for Lyon for €10 million. A full international from the age of 15, he has played at three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. He also played for French club Auxerre, before joining Chelsea’s academy in 2010. He made his debut in a one-and-a-half-year loan at Vitesse in the Eredivisie in March 2014. TraOré signed a contract with Chelsea in December 2013, and completed the transfer on 1 January 2014. On 12 August 2016, he joined Ajax on loan for the 2016–17 campaign, which reunited him with former Vitese manager Peter Bosz.

He was released by Ajax at the end of the season, and signed a three-year contract with the Dutch club in January 2017. He has also been linked with a move to Premier League side Newcastle United. He is currently on a season-long loan at French club Ligue 1 side Montpellier. In August 2013, it was reported that he had joined the Chelsea Academy from French club auxerre. In January 2011, however, the club confirmed that he was not and had never been a Chelsea player, but had appeared once for the club’s youth team in a friendly as part of a six-week trial earlier in the season. On 17 July 2013, he made his Chelsea debut, as a trialist, in a pre-season friendly against the Singha All Stars. On 31 October 2013, Traor signed a four-and half year contract with Chelsea.