Chelsea loan Andrey Santos to Strasbourg

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“I want to be well, happy, having minutes and giving everything for the club I am in,” Andrey Santos commented for AS in advance of Brazil’s debut in the Pre-Olympic. After a first half of the season with almost no opportunities at Nottingham Forest, Andrey Santos will have a new opportunity, this time in France. As this newspaper learned, the midfielder has agreed to loan him to Strasbourg until the end of the season without a purchase option. The player will join the team, belonging to the new ‘Chelsea Group’, once his participation in the Pre-Olympic with Brazil ends.

Although the footballer’s main idea was to remain in England for the second half of the season, the “presence of Patrick Viera has been one of the keys” to the operation. Having one of the best midfielders in the history of the sport as a coach was “a big difference in Andrey’s decision.” From England, up to five clubs tested a loan with an option to buy the player, but they ended up colliding with Chelsea’s future plans. The ‘Blues’ see Andrey as one of the key players in the medium-long term.

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Chelsea did not hesitate to pay 12.5 million for Andrey Santos just a year ago when he was still playing for Vasco da Gama. In a strategic move, the ‘Blues’ managed to close one of the rising talents in the Brasileirão long before he could explode in the league and in the South American U-20, a tournament that he ended up winning alongside Vitor Roque. After half a year working at the Giant, the midfielder landed in London to be immediately loaned to Nottingham Forest, where he did not achieve the desired continuity.

The former Vasco da Gama player will join Strasbourg once he finishes his performance in the Pre-Olympic, where he is being one of Ramon Menezes’ stars. Captain and one of the pillars along with Endrick, the ‘Canarinha’ continues on its path to achieve one of the two places for the Paris Olympic Games this summer, where it will also be considered one of the favorites to revalidate the Gold achieved in Tokyo 2020. In addition, this generation will arrive as one of the most decorated, with the South American U-20 under their arm.