OFFICIAL: Joao Felix leaves on loan to Chelsea

Joao Félix has converted officially in new player of Chelsea. The Portuguese, that will be yielded to the end of the season in the English team, has taken advantage of the operation to renew also his agreement with the Athletic of Madrid by a season more, as it confirmed the own Madrilenian club in the official communiqué of the exit of the player.

🤝 Agreement with the @ChelseaFC for the cession until final of season of @joaofelix70, the one who prolongs his links with our club by a year, until 2027.

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Thank you, Joãor, wish you a lot of luck in this new professional challenge! pic.twitter.com/ugi99ukupg

— Athletic of Madrid (@Atleti) January 11, 2023

After three seasons and averages in the Metropolitan, the luso decided to ask his exit does some weeks and Jorge Mendes could find him destination in the Premier League, this afterwards that the own Atleti refused his exit the past summer to the Bayern Munich and Manchester United. The almost non-existent relation with Simeone seems that it has been the factor determinant for this change of airs, that will last at least five months.

However, the extension of agreement of Joao could have a quite simple reading: the player will return and the technician will go . Although the míster Argentinian is all a 'holy cow' inside the club and has agreement until 2024, the cycle seems to have come to an end in competitive terms and also with the own players, by what the club seems to be preparing his exit for this same summer.

The Portuguese attacker leaves to a team in sportive reconstruction, but also in crisis after marking 34 goals in 131 parties, being besides the most expensive signing of the history of the club: 127 million euros. Chelsea receives to a player that could deliver him a lot of more creativity and dynamism, although certainly what need in Stamford Bridge are goals and triumphs.

Esperanza in London

Already with Graham Potter in the bench londinense from does some months, the team 'blue' is exactly in the half zone of the table, very far of the places that give access to the next edition of the Champions League. In the welcome to the player the British club has described that "the artist has arrived", a clear sample that they feel that Joao can be his new '10' for the important parties, like the eighth of final of the European competition in front of the Borussia Dortmund.