{"id":12183,"date":"2025-03-14T19:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=12183"},"modified":"2025-03-14T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T22:14:05","slug":"chelsea-swoop-to-sign-second-sporting-lisbon-star-after-geovany-quenda-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/chelsea-swoop-to-sign-second-sporting-lisbon-star-after-geovany-quenda-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea swoop to sign SECOND Sporting Lisbon star after Geovany Quenda deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chelsea appear to have snapped up another top talent (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chelsea<\/a> have agreed a deal to sign a second Sporting Lisbon<\/a> star with midfielder Dario Essugo agreeing to a move to Stamford Bridge this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Blues swooped on Friday to wrap up a deal to sign Geovany Quenda \u2013 the highly-rated 17-year-old who Ruben Amorim was desperate to bring to Manchester United.<\/a><\/p>\n

Chelsea will pay \u00a341million to bring Quenda to west London<\/a> with the youngster expected to remain in Lisbon on loan next season before joining his new club in the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n

Reports in Portugal now claim Chelsea are poised to sign another Sporting youngster in Essugo.<\/p>\n

CNN Portugal<\/a> claim a fee of around \u00a318.5m has been agreed for the 20-year-old central midfielder who will sign a seven-year contract.<\/p>\n

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Like Quenda, Essugo has shown promise from a very early age in Portugal.<\/p>\n

He became the club\u2019s youngest ever player to feature in a Champions League game in December 2017, beating the record previously held by Luis Figo when he debuted age 16 years and 268 days.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea initially tried to sign Essugo in January (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Essugo is currently on a season-long loan with Spanish side Las Palmas, making 17 La Liga appearances this term.<\/p>\n

His performances in Spain further enhanced his reputation with Chelsea moving quickly to secure his services. <\/p>\n

Chelsea have set about recruiting the best young talent in Europe, adding Saint-Etienne midfielder Mathis Amougou to their squad in January.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 19-year-old recently made his debut for the Blues off the bench in the 4-0 victory over Southampton.<\/p>\n

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Quenda will join Chelsea in 2026 (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

South American duo Estevao Willian and Kendry Paez are set to link up with the club in the summer with Quenda now set to join them.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Friday, Sporting boss Rui Borges would not confirm whether the move to taking his young star to England was a done deal.<\/p>\n

\u2018His growth has been rapid at Sporting, it’s natural that people talk about him to big clubs,\u2019 Borges said.<\/p>\n

\u2018He’s a kid who will have to learn to live with that. The deal that’s being talked about today, I can’t go into that until the club talks about it, because I don’t know.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea appear to have snapped up another top talent (Picture: Getty Images) Chelsea have agreed a deal to sign a second Sporting Lisbon star with midfielder Dario Essugo agreeing to a move to Stamford Bridge this summer. The Blues swooped on Friday to wrap up a deal to sign Geovany Quenda \u2013 the highly-rated 17-year-old…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12188,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions\/12188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}