Sporting have confirmed an settlement with Chelsea for the transfers of Geovany Quenda and Dario Essugo.
Chelsea might pay as much as £41.9m for Quenda, who turns 18 in April, after transferring swiftly to safe the way forward for the winger, who was attracting curiosity from Manchester United.
Quenda broke into the Sporting first workforce beneath United boss Ruben Amorim this season and can stick with the Portuguese membership till 2026.
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Essugo, a 20-year-old defensive midfielder presently on mortgage with Las Palmas in LaLiga, is about to value £18.5m. He’ll be part of Chelsea this summer time.
Dario Essugo is presently on mortgage at Las Palmas
Quenda, who has performed as a winger and wing-back for Sporting, is predicted to signal a seven-year cope with an choice for a further 12 months and has already handed his medical.
{The teenager} is known to have chosen Chelsea amid curiosity from a variety of different golf equipment and appreciated the actual fact they wished to provide him time to mature and develop as a participant.
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Essugo has additionally already had his medical and it’s understood Chelsea view him as a ball winner that may get common minutes beneath Enzo Maresca and add depth to their squad.
He grew to become Sporting’s youngest participant when he made his first-team debut every week after turning 16 in 2021.
Why Chelsea snapped up ‘Saka-like’ Quenda
Naturally a winger, it’s simple to succeed in for Lamine Yamal, additionally left-footed, when looking out for the same profile to Geovany Quenda. The Barcelona ahead was additionally born in 2007.
“I perceive the comparability, however Geo covers a lot more room,” Fabio Roque, Quenda’s youth coach at Sporting, advised Sky Sports activities as a part of the Subsequent Up sequence.
“Geo is so demanding with himself within the defensive moments. To shut, to get well quick, to win the defensive duels for his team-mates. It jogs my memory of Bukayo Saka to start with of his profession when he performed as a full-back.”
The Arsenal ahead, Roque says, is probably the most correct comparability for Quenda. However he makes clear this doesn’t inform the entire story of {the teenager}’s potential.
“There is just one Geovany Quenda,” says Roque. “He’s completely different from another participant I skilled. He can create a mark on soccer that’s completely completely different.
“We’re speaking about, with Lamine Yamal and Estevao Willian [set to join Chelsea in the summer of 2025], in all probability the very best gamers in that technology born in 2007.”
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