Kai Havertz is enjoying his time at Arsenal after making his debut as a second-half substitute against FC Nurnberg on Thursday.
The German international, who left Chelsea to join the Gunners, wants to gel with his new teammates as quickly as possible.
“I’m very happy - for me it’s a very big club and to play here is of course a dream and I’m happy to be part of this group. I’ve been here for four days and I feel very welcome and I’m happy to be with the boys,” Havertz was quoted as saying by arsenal.com.
“It’s a young group and when I watched them last year from the outside it was fun to watch them, and I felt the energy behind the club. It’s great to be here and hopefully we’re going to have a good time and achieve a lot of things.
“From the outside it always looked like a big family and I always felt the energy whenever I played against them. For me, it was always so tough to play against them because you felt the togetherness of the players, and now to be in there I felt very welcome from the first second. I’ve been here for a couple of days and I already feel part of the group.
“It’ll take some days and weeks to get used to the style of play, that is clear, but I’m going to give everything for the club to get the fitness back into my body and hopefully perform in the highest level in the league.”
Havertz cemented his name in the football's history books when he scored a winning goal in the 2021 UEFA Champions League Final against Manchester City and helped Chelsea lift the title for the second time in the club's history at the Estadio do Dragao in Porto, Portugal.
However, despite having a very good start with the club, the German struggled to perform consistently as he only scored 32 goals in 139 appearances with the Blues.
He won three trophies with Chelsea, UCL and UEFA Super Cup in 2021 and FIFA Club World Cup in 2022. He failed to win a domestic accolade in three years.