MADRID, 11 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Portuguese striker Joao Félix will play for Chelsea FC until the end of the season, after Atlético de Madrid, with whom he previously renewed his contract until 2027, and the English club have reached an agreement for his loan this Wednesday.
“Atlético de Madrid and Chelsea have reached an agreement for the loan of Joao Félix until the end of this season. Likewise, the Portuguese striker has extended his relationship with our club for one more season, until June 2027,” he said. the rojiblanco team “From Atlético de Madrid we wish Joao Félix every success in this new professional stage,” he added.
In this way, the Portuguese international puts an end, at least for the moment, to his turbulent relationship with Diego Pablo Simeone. Starting seven of the first eight games of the course, his situation changed radically after the defeat in the derby against Real Madrid (1-2).
Since then, he has chained nine games as a substitute, a condition that he maintained in ten of the twelve games prior to the World Cup in Qatar. Last Sunday, in the duel against the leader FC Barcelona at the Cívitas Metropolitano (0-1), he did start.
This season, Joao Félix has played 20 games, eleven as a starter, and has scored five goals and distributed three assists. In his 131 games with the rojiblanca shirt, with which he won LaLiga Santander 2020-21, he has accumulated 34 goals and 16 assists.
In total, the Portuguese, signed in the summer of 2019 for more than 120 million euros, has played with Atlético, with whom he has won the LaLiga Santander 2020-2021 title, a total of 131 official matches, scoring 34 goals and distributing 18 assists.
“Chelsea is one of the great teams in the world and I hope to help them achieve their goals, so I’m very, very happy to be here and very excited to play at Stamford Bridge,” the striker said on the London club’s website, a team in crisis since it is tenth in the Premier League, ten points behind the Champions League positions, but which continues to live in the highest continental competition where it will face German Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16.