Chelsea fans told they will be blown away by ‘mad’ new signing | Football
A Chelsea squad worth more than £1billion has been told it will be blown away by the ‘mad’ talent of new signing Geovany Quenda.
Chelsea completed deals to sign highly-rated Portuguese stars Quenda and Dario Essugo from Sporting Lisbon last week.
Quenda, 17, will join Chelsea in the summer of 2026 after the Blues agreed a £44m deal with Sporting. Essugo cost another £18m.
Creative winger Quenda broke into Sporting’s first team at the start of the season and has since made 44 appearances for the Portuguese giants.
It was Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim who gave Quenda his Sporting debut and the Red Devils were linked with a move for Amorim’s former star.
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But Chelsea swooped in to secure an early deal and have been told they should be extremely excited by their new signing by Sporting Lisbon defender Ivan Fresneda.
‘I have a very good relationship with Quenda, I’m 20 and he’s 17. Because of our age, we also have that relationship,’ Fresneda told FlashScore.
‘I was surprised [by his rapid rise], of course. All you have to do is watch the training sessions, stay here for a week and see what that kid does, you’d go mad.
‘Chelsea’s interest doesn’t surprise anyone at the club. Quenda is going to be big in the future. This season, next season and from now on. He’s going to be something to talk about.’
Despite Quenda’s reputation, ex-Chelsea defender William Gallas has questioned his former club’s move.
Who is new Chelsea signing Geovany Quenda?
‘He is a very creative player. He is a very young player and has a lot of potential to achieve.
‘A right-winger with a left foot – so he has a left foot but also likes to go through opponents with his right foot, which becomes very confusing for defenders to try and stop him.
‘He is really quick, really smart and mature in the way he transforms the game.
‘He is a very complete player, a very put together player. He has the mentality that he always has to go back and help the team to defend. He doesn’t stay up front.
‘I think the right word to describe Quenda is he is a very brave player.
‘His main strength is one on one challenges. He is really strong on the duels with the ball at his feet. It is very rare for a defender here in Portugal to stop Quenda in a duel or one on one challenge.
‘He is a generational talent. The mentality is there, psychologically he is there and I think he is ready to play for Chelsea and to play in the Premier League.
‘He will need to adapt to playing in a bigger league, a bigger club, with bigger challenges and bigger opponents.’
Portuguese football journalist and pundit Mariana Fernandes told BBC Sport
‘I still don’t understand why Chelsea are signing only young players,’ he said earlier this week.
‘It looks like it’s an investment on the young players. They buy that young player for that price and then they sell him for more money.
‘But at the moment, I don’t know if Chelsea have the opportunity to do that. They have already bought some young players, but the young players they have bought, I don’t think that their value has gone up.
‘So it looks like they are making mistakes. Don’t forget that this generation is completely different, when you put so much money into the young players it’s not the same as 20, 30 or 40 years ago.
‘For young players, it’s very difficult for them to deal with all that pressure, celebrity things off the pitch and their performance on the pitch. Sometimes it’s not the same.
‘So if you want to invest you have to be sure, but nobody is sure right now.’
But Portuguese football journalist and pundit Mariana Fernandes believes Quenda is a ‘generational talent’ and insists he is ‘ready’ to make an impact in the Premier League.
‘He is a generational talent,’ she told BBC Sport.
‘The mentality is there, psychologically he is there and I think he is ready to play for Chelsea and to play in the Premier League.
‘He will need to adapt to playing in a bigger league, a bigger club, with bigger challenges and bigger opponents.’
Chelsea, currently fourth in the Premier League, return to action after the international break against London rivals Tottenham.
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