Chelsea was one of the clubs in Europe and in the world that built the most during the winter transfer market. Enzo Fernández was the most valuable player at this time, also being the most expensive Argentine in history and the most expensive player in the Premier League, also surpassing Gonzalo Higuaín and Jack Grealish respectively. But, in addition to the Argentine, they also teamed up with David Datro Fofana, Mikhaylo Mudryk, Noni Madueke, and the Brazilian Andrey Santos.
Precisely, Andrey Santos is in the news in England after his great U-20 South American in Colombia. Seeing the results, Chelsea, who need to fix his bad moment in the Premier League and in the Champions League due to a defeat in the Champions League, wants to count on the Brazilian, but it won’t be possible.
Andrey Santos was without a doubt one of the best players in the South American U-20 team accompanied by Vitor Roque who was the top scorer in the tournament. Andrey wearing the captain’s armband led the Brazilian team to the title. With all this on top, without a doubt, Chelsea wants to have the 18-year-old youth now, a midfielder with a lot of arrival at the rival goal and with the desire to find scoring solutions in the Premier League. A huge need for the ‘Blues’ in a complex scenario.
Chelsea signed Andrey Santos for 12.5 million euros and they were increasingly excited to have the player from Vasco Da Gama. However, although he helped the Brazilian club to rise and now the Brasileirao will play, the midfielder who wanted to arrive in London will not be able to debut yet. According to English newspapers, he “will be leaving on loan to a major Brazilian club after his work permit was refused for the second time.”
A huge slip for Graham Potter who is looking for solutions in a Premier League in which Chelsea have not managed to raise their heads and are far from positions in European competitions. As if that were not enough, in the round of 16 in the Champions League they fell against Borussia Dortmund, waiting for the return at Stamford Bridge.
The problem that Andrey Santos had was because of the visa, because, the Evening Standard revealed, “Chelsea had hopes that the 18-year-old midfielder would obtain a visa to play in the Premier League.” And they continue, “his performances of him in the competition were not taken into account.” They also mentioned that his application failed by only one point.
Thus, without Andrey Santos in the London cast for the remainder of the season, the midfielder is expected to continue on loan in the Brazilian league. The idea is that Chelsea lend it to a team that can see activity in the Copa Conmebol Libertadores. In this way, and at 18 years old, he could count on the desired regularity to play the World Cup in the Under-20 category and with the history of playing in international competition at a very young age, he could earn a place at Chelsea.
