Renato Veiga left Chelsea for Villarreal, because their raised summer funds a total of £ 250 million hits, and the Portugal star is no stranger to an abrupt exit of a club
Chelsea has now collected more than £ 250 million from the summer sales, while Renato Veiga joins the Spanish side Villarreal. His annual spell at Stamford Bridge is not the first time that his stay in a club has been demolished.
The blues brought Veiga to West -Londs from Swiss Side Basel in July 2024 for a fee of £ 12 million, and he hardly played under Enzo Maresca. He debuted in a 2-0 loss for Manchester City last August, although he never had much meaningful playing time.
Veiga signed for Juventus on loan in January and played 15 times for them before he returned to his parent club. He now leaves Chelsea for £ 25 million, more than double what Todd Boehly paid for the 22-year-old just over 12 months ago. While his time in the English capital was short and sweet, he once caused a commotion with a loan movement during his sporting CP days.
The side of Maresca has so far sold 11 players in the first team, with people like Noni Madueke, Joao Felix and Kiernan Dewsbury Hall under their most important departure. These outputs have helped to finance movements for Joao Pedro, who was signed for £ 60 million from Brighton in July, and to recruit Jamie Gittens from Borussia Dortmund and Liam Delap from the city of Ipswich.
Veiga adds £ 25 million to the total transfer income of the club for this summer. But it was for his boys' club that once made the headlines for a loan movement that was inexplicably cut short.
The 22-year-old was born in Lisbon and joined the Sporting Academy when he was only seven years old. After departure in 2013, he played for a series of various academies, but returned five years later and made rapid progress through their youth ranks.
At the age of 19, after he had made a handful of performances for the B-Team of Sporting, Veiga was given the opportunity to get loan at the German Outfit Augsburg in January 2023. This temporary step would last until the end of December 2023, and everything went well.
He debuted in February and was given a lot of playing time and appeared in 13 Bundesliga matches. In August, after only six months in Germany, his loan was terminated.
This caused some confusion at the time, because Veiga could often be seen before Augsburg, and although he had not set the world on fire, he had just played the full 90 minutes of their last two games. Rumors about disciplinary issues started to swirl.
Such speculation was never confirmed, but anyway, Veiga was clearly not the right fit for the German side and quickly returned to the sport. “After analyzing the first six months of his loan saying, we came up with a mutual decision with Renato Veiga to end his loan contract,” said Stefan Reuter, director of Augsburg for Sport in 2023.
“We want to thank him for his dedication to the club and wish him the very best for his future.” Veiga was not long at sporty and permanently moved to Basel less than two weeks after his Loing from Augsburg came to a premature end.
The versatile defensive player played for the Swiss giants, earned their goal of the seasonal prize and therefore earned his move to Stamford Bridge. He will now play in La Liga, with Chelsea who makes a statement about his exit that read: “We thank Renato for his efforts during his time at Chelsea and wish him well because he starts a new chapter in his career.”