Chelsea continued her strategy to improve the best youth players in the game, even though they were not the ones who announced this time.
Instead, Sporting Lisbon let the news with an official explanation on their website, in which the double business for Geovany Quenda and Dario Esgo was described.
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The couple of midfielder will arrive at a combined fee of 62.4 million GBP, but the more expensive of the two wing players, Quenda, will remain in Portugal next season.
ESGO will arrive in Chelsea in Chelsea in Chelsea this summer after impressed a loan in the Laliga Club Las Palmas this season.
The 20-year-old defensive midfielder was one of several players who appeared for the island side, even though they were in a relegation battle, even though he has two red cards in his last four games.
As for Quenda, the 17-year-old looks like the next elite talent from the incredible youth academy of Sporting and has two goals and six templates in his breakthrough campaign.
His fee of 44 million GBP is the most for every player that was broadcast below the age of 18, the most, although Real Madrid’s endrick could finally surpass him, since his deal has an additional £ 30 million on add-ons.
He was strongly associated with a move to Manchester United, where he would have teamed up with the Portuguese fellow human beings Bruno Fernandes and Diogo Dalot.
Dalot recently asked about his commitment of the older Portugal squad to Quenda and said that the youngster had the talent to be a main support on an international level in the coming years.
“Above all, it is another demonstration of the quality of the Portuguese player, football in Portugal“, Said the Red Devils defender.
“He is a player of great quality, very promising, so he is here.
“He knows that it is a great responsibility not to be everyone here, to represent a large club for which he will play, but he likes to play, he is happy, he expresses in the best way he knows how and we are here to help him.
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“But it was its quality that brought him here. He has to work hard, he knows. The Council is always the same … the most difficult is not to get there, but to stay there, and I think he has all the skills to do this.“
Chelsea has already spent more than just the 62.4 million GBP mentioned, since they have already agreed offers for Estevao Willian (29 million GBP) and Kendry Paez (17 million GBP) before the summer transfer window.
Like Quenda, the two teenagers are on the elite level, and Estevao breaks numerous old -age records for Palmeiras in his Breakout campaign in Brazil.
The 17-year-old attacker with the nickname “Messinho” (Little Messi) received a number of honor from Neymar, including most goals and templates for a player under the age of 18.
Chelsea was traditionally one of the most active teams in European football when it comes to the transfer market, but things are even more reinforced among new owners Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly.
The 2021 Champions League winner of the Champions League was completely rebuilt and the age range was drastically reduced, which led to two record windows.
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The blues spent an astonishing world record of £ 450 million in the summer of 2022 and then broke the January record with 320 million GBP, which were issued at the beginning of 2023.
The results were not completely followed because Chelsea in the Premier League showed the 12th and sixth, but youth policy paid off in some areas, with Cole Palmer being one of the leading talents of the game since moving to Stamford Bridge.
However, things are looking for the blues that are locked up in a tense battle for a top-four finish and a return to the Champions League football.
Currently, only five points of Chelsea in Fourth and Bournemouth are separating in tenths, with City, Newcastle, Brighton, Fulham and Aston Villa also being shooting for the top level of Europe.