{"id":29051,"date":"2023-01-07T16:20:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29051"},"modified":"2023-01-07T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T16:21:00","slug":"chelsea-signed-brazilian-wonderkid-andrey-santos-for-18m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/01\/07\/chelsea-signed-brazilian-wonderkid-andrey-santos-for-18m\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea signed Brazilian wonderkid Andrey Santos for \u00a318m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chelsea have officially confirmed their second signing of the day in young Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos, having already announced David Datro Fofana earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 18-year-old wonderkid was announced as joining the Blues for \u00a318million by his Brazilian club Vasco da Gama yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santos becomes the third January transfer window signing for Graham Potter’s side after completing deals for Fofana and Benoit Badiashile already in the opening week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chelsea have confirmed their second signing of the day in Brazilian wonderkid Andrey Santos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 18-year-old becomes the third January transfer window signing for Graham Potter’s side<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All three additions show the intent of building for the future at Stamford Bridge, especially with them all being handed long-term contracts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santos is seen as a future replacement for the Blues ageing midfielder that includes the likes of N’Golo Kante, Jorginho and Mateo Kovacic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being just 18, Santos has been capped at U20 level by Brazil and is regarded as one of his country’s most promising midfielders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Santos (pictured) is seen as a future replacement for the likes of N’Golo Kante and Jorginho<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has already featured 38 times for Vasco Da Gama in the Brazilian second-tier, where he has scored a total of eight goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On signing for Chelsea, Santos said: \u2018It\u2019s a very big opportunity for me. This is a big club playing in big competitions like the Premier League so I am very excited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘The players here are so good and I am very happy to be here.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The midfielder, 18, has featured 38 times for Vasco Da Gama in the Brazilian second-tier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chelsea boss Potter will be eager to add more rising stars after a successful start to the January transfer window, having signed Badiashile and Fofana already while adding talents such as Carney Chukwuemeka earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Brighton boss is also reportedly chasing his former club for midfielder Moises Caicedo\u00a0after his impressive performances with Ecuador at the World Cup – but he will have to fight off interest from Liverpool too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blues are also eyeing moves for Atletico Madrid forward Joao Felix and Shakthar Donestk winger\u00a0Mykhailo Mudryk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea have officially confirmed their second signing of the day in young Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos, having already announced David Datro Fofana earlier today. The 18-year-old wonderkid was announced as joining the Blues for \u00a318million by his Brazilian club Vasco da Gama yesterday afternoon. Santos becomes the third January transfer window signing for Graham Potter’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[9282,1962,2422,1725,8173,1827,169,5418,9742,9155,8582,3577,7859,10640,302,9852,197,5886,10421,12187,1563,11973,13256,267,9230,9283,3954,36,5248,5140],"class_list":["post-29051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-andrey-santos","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-brazil","tag-brazilian","tag-bridge","tag-brighton","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-da","tag-david-datro-fofana","tag-ecuador","tag-future","tag-graham-potter","tag-joao-felix","tag-jorginho","tag-kante","tag-liverpool","tag-mateo-kovacic","tag-moises-caicedo","tag-n","tag-ngolo-kante","tag-one","tag-players","tag-premier-league","tag-santos","tag-vasco-de-gama","tag-will","tag-world","tag-world-cup","tag-young"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}