Chelsea’s mission signs every top young man on the planet earlier earlier this month with shocks Sporting CP duo Dario Essugo and Geovany Quena.
It’s a blues separated with a combined £ 62.3 million sign a talented couple. The 20-year-old Essugo midfielder will move to Stamford Bridge this summer, while the 17-year-old Quena wing will move to England in 2026.
Here, 90min A closer look at both players, which makes them special and why Chelsea Fans should be so excited by their immediate arrivals.
Midfielder Essugo was born and grown Sports. Growing up in Lisbon and joined the club at the age of nine, and his talent was obvious almost immediately. He was a regular compound at the Academy and quickly made his way through the ranks.
Just six days after his 16th birthday, and still plays for Sportins reserves, Essugo was handed his senior debut. He became the youngest player in the history of the club in March 2021, and after the last whistle, he broke in tears on the field after processing the event that had just changed his career.
“Nothing in me has changed,” he said Jornal Sporting After his debut. “What I have to do is do more, harder, and it’s harder to stay there. The hardest part is not getting there, but staying there. I will do it. What happened in the past is in the past. Now we have to look at new horizons and goals.”
Primarily a defensive midfielder who is compared to Moisees Caicedo because of his ability to recover possession, Essugo describes himself as “a player who loves to play the ball from the back and drive it forward.” You will see him push into the accessories, drive 40 meters and a slit through the smart passage everything in the blink of an eye.
Like Quenda, Essugo impressed his maturity. He decided to join Las Palmas on loan last summer and openly admitted his excitement when he saw his weaknesses exploiting a new football style. He wants to learn through experience and did so during the 2024/25 season.
However, what has longed for him from the rest is his excellent positional consciousness. Essugo is not just a gear in the machine, but is proud of playing an integral role in the lineup of his part, and this should help his transition to life in Chelsea. Enzo Maresca requires a lot of tactical intelligence of his players, and Essugo has shown that he is abundant.
Essugo can initially be expected to offer a small cover for Caicedo, but it’s a spare role only in the name. Chelsea has no one that can replicate Ecuadorian defense talents and look far weaker when Caicedo is strenuous or unavailable, so there should be regular minutes for both players to be fresh and ensure that Chelsea’s defense levels never fall.
Born in Guinea-Bissau 2007, Quena moved to Portugal as a young man and lost some time showing her potential. Those who are familiar with his appearance tell the story of an unknown child who appeared in a game in jeans and running circles around his opponents. The Lisbon clothing of Damaiense broke him without hesitation.
Both Benfica and Sporting soon made contact, and the former initially sealed Quen’s signature. The young winged player blinded the tournaments for two years and was supposed to extend his time with Benfica when the Portuguese side gave up the promise that he would place a 13-year-old Quenda at their academy. The doors were open to Sporting to grab a respected property from their fiercest rivals and they took it.
Quenda is full of natural talent. It brings everything you could wish for from a wing player – “has a great relationship with the goal and is very good compared to one,” said young Fabio Roque coach Sky Sports – But it will never be enough to break into a sporting under Ruben Amorim, which requires discipline and an immense rate of work from all his players.
His powerful mentality saw Quenda increasing to the challenge. The young man recognized the gift he had with the ball in front of his legs, but accepted the weakness from possession, so he had to make a gap in his game.
“One characteristic he didn’t have before, but now he’s perfect, defending,” said godfather Basaul Lemba offering. “Previously, he only played from the middle of the field, but now he can combine an attack with defense. He came from African land, where they only value the ball into their feet, so he had to get used to a slightly different system. More demanding.”
Quenda appreciates the ugly side of the game, perhaps at his detriment in his early career, because the breakthrough came as a winged back, not as a traditional wing player. Reports of Quena States wanted to return to its natural attacking position, Helping Chelsea to win Manchester United on his signature.
Compared to Arsenal’s star Bukayo Saka for her own approach, which dominates the lap, Quenda has already made a big impact on senior football. He is Sports’ youngest scorer of all time – on the eve of a certain Cristiano Ronaldo – a regular starter in the Champions League and was already part of the Portuguese senior team.
Sports fans were devastated to see Quenda committing his future elsewhere. He was widely greeted as one of the best footballers of his age group, along with the soon -to -be teammate Esteva Willian, and Chelsea fans are understandably thrown away because of the possibility of watching him realize his astronomical potential on Stamford Bridge.
The future is bright for Chelsea is Qundam and Essugom in the ranks, but it may be even more important, the present also looks quite exciting.
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