Renato Veiga has agreed personal terms with Villarreal and Chelsea are negotiating a transfer reportedly structured as 24m plus add-ons aiming toward a 30m package. Veiga joined Chelsea last summer and spent the second half of the season on loan at Juventus. The 22-year-old can operate at centre-back, left-back or defensive midfield, offering positional versatility across a long campaign with four competitions. Chelsea appear willing to cash in, potentially to reinvest the fee or because of alternative options for those roles. The serious injury to Levi Colwill increases the club's need for additional defensive reinforcements.
Chelsea are reportedly in talks with Villarreal over selling Portuguese defender Renato Veiga for around 30m. The 22-year-old has agreed personal terms with Villarreal, according to Fabrizio Romano on his official page on X. Veiga only joined Chelsea last summer, but quickly left the Blues for a loan move to Juventus in January. Now it looks like we're edging closer to Veiga departing Stamford Bridge permanently, with negotiations ongoing with Villarreal, as per Romano's post below ??
Some Chelsea fans might be concerned about letting Veiga go so soon after he looked like a decent prospect when he first arrived. Capable of playing centre-back, left-back, or defensive midfield, one can easily imagine Veiga having some kind of a role to play in Enzo Maresca's squad over the course of a long season with four competitions to play in and compete for.
Still, it seems CFC would prefer to cash in on Veiga, so perhaps they've calculated that they have other options who can do that job, or else they'll reinvest the fee from his sale in more signings in that area of their squad. The recent serious injury suffered by Levi Colwill also surely means Chelsea could do with strengthening with more defensive signings, as
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