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

Leonino Exclusive - Geovany Quenda, Sporting player, has been loaned by Chelsea until the end of the current season

The fact that Geovany Quenda has not been a starter at the beginning of this season has left Chelsea officials concerned, Leonino has learned. The English club has expressed its dissatisfaction to Sporting’s management regarding the handling of the young player loaned from the English side.

Geovany Quenda was brought in by Ruben Amorim at the start of last season and quickly earned a starting spot at Alvalade. His impressive first half of the 2024/25 season caught the attention of Chelsea, who decided to spend over 50 million on the player developed 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, just 18 years old, to continue developing and gaining minutes at Sporting, in a competitive environment but without the demands of the Premier League.

However, the arrival of Rui Borges as Sporting’s head coach changed Chelsea’s plans. It quickly became clear that the Portuguese coach had less confidence in Geovany Quenda compared to Ruben Amorim. The green and white winger started losing his place in the starting eleven, and the arrival of the 2025/26 season made things worse, 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 at all, as the Blues fear that the reduction in minutes will hinder Geovany Quenda’s development, and that the player might arrive in the Premier League at the start of next season still unprepared for what many consider the most competitive league in the world.

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