Premier League giant 'annoyed' with Sporting over Rui Borges | OneFootball

Chelsea is not at all pleased with the way Rui Borges is managing Geovany Quenda. Our newspaper reveals, in this Leonino Exclusive, that the English club is closely monitoring the performances of the young winger trained at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy, who was bought by the Blues from Sporting halfway through last season.

Geovany Quenda was introduced by Ruben Amorim at the start of last season and quickly earned a starting spot at the Alvalade club. His impressive first half of the 2024/25 season caught Chelsea’s attention, who decided to spend more than 50 million on the player developed at Sporting.

Despite having signed 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 accumulating 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 to lose his place in the starting eleven, and the arrival of the 2025/26 season made the situation 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’s management happy at all, as the Blues fear that the reduction in minutes could 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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