Chelsea star set to join Levi Colwill on loan at Huddersfield for remainder of the season

Tino Anjorin is set to join Huddersfield Town on loan from Chelsea for the remainder of the season, understands.

Interest in the 20-year-old has increased throughout the month after it became clear he would not be returning to Lokomotiv Moscow, with whom he spent the first half of the campaign.

Southampton are understood to be keen on signing Anjorin permanently from Chelsea and considered launching a move for the midfielder this month.

However, with the end of the transfer window fast approaching, the decision has been taken for Anjorin to join the Terriers – where he will link up with fellow Chelsea loanee Levi Colwill – until the end of the season in order to help their push to finish in the Championship play-offs.

Southampton have not dropped their interest, however, and are expected to pursue a deal for Anjorin, who joined the Blues at just nine years old, in the summer.

Promoted into the Chelsea first-team squad a little over a year ago by Frank Lampard, Anjorin spent the second half of the 2020/21 campaign working under Thomas Tuchel.

He is understood to have enjoyed a good relationship with the German coach, who was impressed by the academy graduate's work in training and professionalism.

But given the number of attacking players in Tuchel's squad, Anjorin's game time was limited – he made just one appearance under Tuchel and that game against Barnsley in the FA Cup.

Anjorin was one of the first Chelsea players to return to pre-season training in the summer but suffered the misfortune of testing positive for Covid and that cost him the chance to impress in friendlies, something which Tuchel admitted was disappointing.

“When the season ended we agreed he stays for pre-season and he’d get the minutes he