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Chelsea 'HIJACK' Man United's move for top target Geovany...Quenda was seen as Ruben Amorim's top right wing-back and the Red Devils have been heavily linked with the starlet. But now the 17-year-old has reportedly agreed to join Chelsea in 2026.

Fabrizio Romano is reporting this also. Highly rated left footed RW, capable of playing on both wings, and even in both fullback positions. Always felt he was destined for Utd as Amorim was a big fan. Already a mainstay in the Sporting side at 17; racked up 1700+ league mins already & has 1 goal, 4 assists. Will be interesting to see what we ended up paying as Sporting were after €35m+. He is one of the highest rated players in his age group, and with Estevao & Paez coming in the summer I am intrigued about our long term plan. Sporting have a history of churning out quality wingers you just hope we didn’t buy him to farm him out on loan

 
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Chelsea 'HIJACK' Man United's move for top target Geovany...Quenda was seen as Ruben Amorim's top right wing-back and the Red Devils have been heavily linked with the starlet. But now the 17-year-old has reportedly agreed to join Chelsea in 2026.

Fabrizio Romano is reporting this also. Highly rated left footed RW, capable of playing on both wings, and even in both fullback positions. Always felt he was destined for Utd as Amorim was a big fan. Already a mainstay in the Sporting side at 17; racked up 1700+ league mins already & has 1 goal, 4 assists. Will be interesting to see what we ended up paying as Sporting were after €35m+. He is one of the highest rated players in his age group, and with Estevao & Paez coming in the summer I am intrigued about our long term plan. Sporting have a history of churning out quality wingers you just hope we didn’t buy him to farm him out on loan
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I look at this guy's profile and all I see is another short-arse player (172cm) to get bullied in the PL ... if he ever makes the grade.

 
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Chelsea 'HIJACK' Man United's move for top target Geovany...Quenda was seen as Ruben Amorim's top right wing-back and the Red Devils have been heavily linked with the starlet. But now the 17-year-old has reportedly agreed to join Chelsea in 2026.

Fabrizio Romano is reporting this also. Highly rated left footed RW, capable of playing on both wings, and even in both fullback positions. Always felt he was destined for Utd as Amorim was a big fan. Already a mainstay in the Sporting side at 17; racked up 1700+ league mins already & has 1 goal, 4 assists. Will be interesting to see what we ended up paying as Sporting were after €35m+. He is one of the highest rated players in his age group, and with Estevao & Paez coming in the summer I am intrigued about our long term plan. Sporting have a history of churning out quality wingers you just hope we didn’t buy him to farm him out on loan
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What a signing that would be and it’s smart to let him develop another year at Sporting.

Remarkably complete winger at a very young age akin to Yamal in that sense, not ability wise of course just in terms of understanding of the game. Only issue I have with him is his finishing/shooting isn’t great but that’s really his only weakness.

 
What am I missing here ?

A huge fee for a raw diminutive 17 year old in a position we are already stacked in, who is having a fairly average season for the best club in a weak league ?

 
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What am I missing here ?

A huge fee for a raw diminutive 17 year old in a position we are already stacked in, who is having a fairly average season for the best club in a weak league ?
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He's not raw so that's probably what you are missing. He's already a very complete player at such a young age but he's certainly not going to help with our goal scoring.

If you are excited by Paez or Estevao then I see no reason why you shouldn't be excited about Quenda.

 
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He's not raw so that's probably what you are missing. He's already a very complete player at such a young age but he's certainly not going to help with our goal scoring.

If you are excited by Paez or Estevao then I see no reason why you shouldn't be excited about Quenda.
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A 17 year old in his first season is always "raw" in my book ? How can he be otherwise ?

He's obviously not a complete player as he has several weaknesses to his game, and his output is light years lower than Estevao, and even he is a gamble. Paez I am not expecting much. Hopefully they all turn out good,

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A 17 year old in his first season is always "raw" in my book ? How can he be otherwise ?

He's obviously not a complete player as he has several weaknesses to his game, and his output is light years lower than Estevao, and even he is a gamble. Paez I am not expecting much. Hopefully they all turn out good,

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I assumed you meant raw in terms of ability, not experience.

Aerial duels naturally a weakness due to this height I didn't think that one needed to be brought up. Finishing I mentioned already, hope it gets better with age but no doubt a major weakness of his at the moment. Tackling I guess? He's so high up the pitch so I can see how it can be very weak when he's chasing back and commiting fouls rather than being in position to make a favorable tackle. As a winger in our system I would imagine this wouldn't be an issue. Defensive contribution I have no idea how that's measured as he's got good work rate, maybe does try to press too much and ends up going alone at times like Connor did for us instead of with the team so I guess that knocks his stats down.

 
I assumed you meant raw in terms of ability, not experience.

Aerial duels naturally a weakness due to this height I didn't think that one needed to be brought up. Finishing I mentioned already, hope it gets better with age but no doubt a major weakness of his at the moment. Tackling I guess? He's so high up the pitch so I can see how it can be very weak when he's chasing back and commiting fouls rather than being in position to make a favorable tackle. As a winger in our system I would imagine this wouldn't be an issue. Defensive contribution I have no idea how that's measured as he's got good work rate, maybe does try to press too much and ends up going alone at times like Connor did for us instead of with the team so I guess that knocks his stats down.
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I hope he turns out to be a good signing, but I find it really hard to get excited about signing yet another young player for a huge fee, in a position we don't need, when we have gaping chasms in the side at striker, goal keeper, central defence and left back, which it appears we continually fail to address ... I'd also prioritise a physical goal-scoring central midfielder to play with Caicedo instead of Fernandez, but you have to pick battles you can win LOL

 
I hope he turns out to be a good signing, but I find it really hard to get excited about signing yet another young player for a huge fee, in a position we don't need, when we have gaping chasms in the side at striker, goal keeper, central defence and left back, which it appears we continually fail to address ... I'd also prioritise a physical goal-scoring central midfielder to play with Caicedo instead of Fernandez, but you have to pick battles you can win LOL
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I understand the skepticism but seeing as these kind of signings are not going to stop, if we are going to be spending big money on youth then these are the sort of players we should be aiming for.

Hopefully we get a much needed first team improvements to supplement signings like these.

 
Managers and players speak of him really highly, I've added his assist against Man City from earlier this season as well. He looks looks very direct with good vision and has very good crossing/passing, but don't worry, Maresca will do his best to train that out of him.



 
Liverpool scouts have been huge admirers of Essugo’s performances this season and pursued a deal for the young midfielder. Negotiations for a €22m transfer fee was no obstacle for the Reds who viewed Essugo as the ideal understudy to Gravenberch. Liverpool offered €50k per week to Essugo and were prepared to sign a five year contract to secure his services. Chelsea then put an insane offer on the table giving a six-year contract to Essugo worth €100k per week

That is ridiculous if true. He currently earns less than £10k/w

 
Liverpool scouts have been huge admirers of Essugo’s performances this season and pursued a deal for the young midfielder. Negotiations for a €22m transfer fee was no obstacle for the Reds who viewed Essugo as the ideal understudy to Gravenberch. Liverpool offered €50k per week to Essugo and were prepared to sign a five year contract to secure his services. Chelsea then put an insane offer on the table giving a six-year contract to Essugo worth €100k per week

That is ridiculous if true. He currently earns less than £10k/w
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He’s a baby Caicedo

 
Liverpool scouts have been huge admirers of Essugo’s performances this season and pursued a deal for the young midfielder. Negotiations for a €22m transfer fee was no obstacle for the Reds who viewed Essugo as the ideal understudy to Gravenberch. Liverpool offered €50k per week to Essugo and were prepared to sign a five year contract to secure his services. Chelsea then put an insane offer on the table giving a six-year contract to Essugo worth €100k per week

That is ridiculous if true. He currently earns less than £10k/w
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I imagine this is similar to when we beat Liverpool to Caicedo and Lavia and they started saying we were paying them £250k a week.

 
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