Danish striker Simon Makienok says he is 'excited' to be at Charlton Athletic.
The 6ft 7in forward signed for the Championship side on a season-long loan from Palermo on July 1st.
The 25-year-old is a Danish international and has six caps for the national team.
Makienok has dreamed of playing in England
Like many European based players, Makienok has long been interested in English football, describing it as "brilliant" and speaking of his long-held ambition to play in England due to his "height and strength".
He will be keen to recapture the form he showed at Brondby where he scored 35 goals in 74 appearances. Last season he struggled at Palermo with no goals and just four appearances to his name.
Prior to his move to Brondby, he played in the Danish lower leagues at Herfolge BK and HB Koge. At the latter he scored 22 goals in 54 appearances before he made the move to Brondby for €550,000.
He told The Chronicle that he was "very excited" to have joined the Addicks and was "very honoured" to play in the red shirt of Charlton. He went on to tell fans that he wants to "live up to expectations" by scoring "lots of goals" and making the number nine shirt his own.
The forward is backed by his manager
The Dane has been backed to be a success by Charlton manager Guy Luzon, who expressed his relief to "finally" have someone to take the number nine shirt in a position where his side had previously been lacking.
Luzon has praised his new man for the "very different threat" posed by his incredible height, but he has also assured that "he is very good with his feet" and hopes that defenders will find him a "difficult" opponent.
He is Charlton fourth signing of the summer, following the arrivals of Patrick Bauer, El-Hadji Ba and Josh Stauton.
