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On loan from Atletico Madrid to Chelsea until the end of the 2022-2023 season, Joao Félix gave his first reaction to his arrival at the Blues.
Eager to change the air during this winter transfer window in January, Joao Félix has found a new base. In difficulty under the orders of Diego Simeone, the Portuguese striker leaves Atletico Madrid towards Chelsea. This Wednesday, the club from the London capital formalized the arrival in its workforce of the 23-year-old center forward. Under contract until June 2027 with the Colchoneros, the former member of Benfica Lisbon has committed to Graham Potter’s Blues in the form of a current loan until the end of the 2022-2023 season. The deal sealed between the two formations does not include a purchase option.
The time is now! ?
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) January 11, 2023
“I hope to help the team achieve its goals”
Chelsea register their second winter recruit, after the French central defender of AS Monaco Benoît Badiashile. Author of only 5 goals in 20 matches in all competitions with Atletico Madrid, for 4 goals in 14 La Liga matches, the native of Viseu will try to relaunch his season on the side of Stamford Bridge with an English club in difficulty, only tenth of the Premier League nineteen points behind leaders Arsenal and eliminated by Manchester City in the third round of the FA Cup (0-4).
The Lusitanian international, bought by the Spaniards in the summer of 2019 against a check for 127.20 million euros, released his first words following his arrival in the London capital. “Chelsea are one of the great teams in the world and I hope to help the team achieve their goals so I am very, very happy to be here and very excited to play at Stamford Bridge”declared on the official website of the club Joao Félix, brought to compensate numerically for a possible departure of the Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, targeted by FC Barcelona.
