THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — Chelsea has agreed to sign Germany midfielder Marko Marin from Werder Bremen at the end of the season.
The west London club said Saturday it has agreed to a fee for the 23-year-old playmaker and that Marin has agreed to personal terms.
Chelsea did not say how much it would pay for Marin. Bremen paid Bundesliga rival Borussia Moenchengladbach about C8 million ($10.6 million) for him in 2009.
Bremen general manager Klaus Allofs confirmed the move to Sky television.
"We finalized the last details during the course of the day," Allofs said Saturday.
German media widely reported that Marin has agreed to a five-year contract.
Marin was born in the former Yugoslavia but has played 16 times for Germany, including two substitute appearances at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
He was an Eintracht Frankfurt youth player before switching to Moenchengladbach at 16. He made his Bundesliga debut in 2007.
Marin has scored 12 goals in 124 Bundesliga appearances.