Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall arrives at Stamford Bridge with a renewed sense of vigour, describing himself as a “new player” and heralding Chelsea as the ideal club for his next career step.

The midfielder has concluded a 17-year tenure at Leicester City, making a £30 million move to West London. At Chelsea, he will reunite with Enzo Maresca, the Italian coach who played a pivotal role in his career-best season last term.

Following Leicester City’s Championship title success, where Dewsbury-Hall earned the player of the season accolade, the 25-year-old is brimming with confidence and eager to showcase his talents at the highest level. For him, Chelsea represents the perfect environment to do just that.

“It is amazing to be sitting here as a Chelsea player,” he said. “This is a club people grow up watching and hoping to one day play for, so it is a privilege to be here. I’m really excited to get going and can’t wait to show everybody what I can do.

“My hopes for the season, first and foremost, is to win some silverware. That is an aim for this club and we are in plenty of competitions this season where we can try to do that. So that is priority number one.

“I want to play as many games as I can and try to help the team as much as possible. That is imperative to me. I want to enjoy the moment and enjoy the occasion. There are going to be a lot of games this season and hopefully there will be a lot of ups. The squad is full of talent and has a lot of potential so I know that if it is nurtured right, then we can be really dangerous.

“Last season was a positive year for me and I’m coming into this season feeling like a new player, full of confidence, full of motivation to get going and I don’t see a better fit than coming to Chelsea and testing myself against some top players and playing with top players. I am in a great space and

I am really looking forward to getting going.”

Dewsbury-Hall’s quest to establish himself as a regular in Chelsea’s starting XI should be helped by his relationship with Maresca. There will be nobody in the squad who knows the Italian as well as he does.

“I have made it pretty public about what I think of the new head coach,” Dewsbury-Hall added. “He is fantastic. He is top.

“He completely changed the way Leicester wanted to play last season and we saw it worked. I personally fell in love with the way he wanted to play and I know a lot of the other lads did as well.

“I am very confident coming here that he is going to implement his style and that the lads are going to buy into it and are going to enjoy it. With more time working with it, it will look more natural and when that happens, it is going to be really good for the football club.

“He is a very unique character. He is very relentless and determined but he also has that nice, gentle side if he wants to talk to you as a human being. It is good that he has a mixture of both because when it is time to work, it is time to work, and he is definitely one of the most hard-working people I have seen in football. He is a great person to have and he is going to be really good here.”