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Premier League giant annoyed with Sporting over Rui Borges
Aug 31 2025 02:38 · By onefootball.com · 48 Reads
Leonino Exclusive – Rui Borges’ decisions at Sporting are leaving a Premier League club dissatisfied, as they have a special interest in the Lions.
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, who was developed at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy and purchased 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 excellent first half of the 2024/25 season caught Chelsea’s attention, who decided to spend over 50 million on the player developed at Sporting .
Although they 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, only 18 years old, to continue developing and gaining 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 began to lose his place in the starting eleven, and the arrival of the 2025/26 season made things 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 will hinder Geovany Quenda’s development, and that the player will 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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