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Fulham FC have announced the signing of Raúl Jiménez from Wolverhampton Wanderers for an undisclosed fee.
The striker has agreed a contract until the summer of 2025, with a Club option to extend by a further 12 months.
Raúl will be unveiled at our Summer Series match against Aston Villa on Wednesday evening.
“It’s really important for me to arrive here,” Jiménez said. “I will try to do my best for the team, one of the most iconic teams in the Premier League.”
“I’m happy to be here and to play in this stadium, it’s a really good stadium, I like it here. I’m going to give my best to keep scoring goals in the Premier League.”
Tony Khan added, “I’m excited to welcome Raúl Jiménez to Fulham! Raúl will be familiar to Fulham supporters as he’s had great experience playing in the Premier League, and in international football with Mexico.”
“It’s important for us to follow up on last season’s success, and we believe that the addition of Raúl can help us strengthen the squad as we aim for another successful season in the Premier League!”
Jiménez – who has made a name for himself as a scorer of all sorts of goals – began his career in his native Mexico with Club América.
Despite his tender age, Jiménez played a key role for the club, scoring 38 goals and assisting a further 16 in 103 appearances, helping them to win the league in 2013.
After spending a year in the Spanish capital with Atletico Madrid, the frontman headed to Benfica, where he won six trophies – including the Primeira Liga in successive seasons – across a three-year period in Portugal, claiming 31 goals and 14 assists in that time.
A first taste of Premier League football was next, as Wolves looked to Jiménez to spearhead their first campaign back in the top-flight following their promotion – alongside Fulham – from the Championship in 2018.
Initially a loan deal, the club made the move permanent for €38m after his 17 goals helped them to an FA Cup Semifinal and a seventh-place finish.
That standing provided Wolves an UEFA Europa League spot in 2019/20, with Jiménez registering an exceptional 14 goal involvements (10G, 4A) in 15 matches as the Midlands side reached the Quarterfinals, where they were narrowly beaten by eventual winners Sevilla FC.
Jiménez was equally prolific in the Premier League that season, netting 17 times as Wolves finished seventh once again.
The 2020/21 campaign was a harrowing one for Jiménez. After scoring four goals in Wolves’ first six Premier League matches, he suffered a fractured skull after a clash of heads with Arsenal’s David Luiz.
Despite it ending his season, thankfully the striker made a full recovery and was back in action during the club’s friendlies the following summer, going on to register 10 goal involvements as Wolves secured another top-half finish.
He departs Molineux having scored 57 goals, in addition to laying on 24 assists, in 166 matches for the club.
An icon in Mexico, Jiménez made his international debut more than a decade ago, and has now represented his country on 102 occasions.
In that time he has scored 30 goals, and also represented Mexico at no fewer than three FIFA World Cups.
