Exclusive Leonino - Quenda causes unrest, Chelsea unhappy with Sporting | OneFootball

The non-starter status of Geovany Quenda at the beginning of this season has left Chelsea officials worried, according to Leonino. The English club expressed its dissatisfaction to Sporting's management regarding the handling of the young player on loan from the English club.

Geovany Quenda was introduced by Ruben Amorim at the start of last season and quickly earned the status of a starter at the Alvalade Club. The great first half of the 2024/25 season attracted Chelsea's interest, which decided to spend more than 50 million on the player trained at Sporting.

Despite signing Geovany Quenda, Chelsea preferred to leave the winger at Alvalade for another year, until the end of the 2025/26 season. The goal was for the young player, only 18 years old, to continue developing and accumulating minutes at Sporting, in a competitive environment but without the demands of the Premier League.

However, the arrival of Rui Borges as the head coach of Sporting altered Chelsea's plans. It was evident early on that the Portuguese coach had less confidence in Geovany Quenda compared to Ruben Amorim. The green and white winger began losing his place in the starting eleven, and the arrival of the 2025/26 season worsened the situation, as the Portuguese winger seems to have definitively lost his starting spot to Geny Catamo.

This change in Sporting's planning, implemented by Rui Borges, is not making Chelsea officials happy, as the Blues fear that the reduction in playing time might delay Geovany Quenda's development, and that the player might arrive in the Premier League at the start of the next season still unprepared for what many consider the most competitive league in the world.

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