Chelsea are close to finalising the transfer of Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix to Saudi club Al Nassr, a move that could see the Premier League side make a notable profit on the Portuguese forward. Despite ongoing speculation about a return to Benfica, F\u00e9lix’s boyhood club, where he himself stated, \u201cBenfica is my home. One day I will return,\u201d recent developments point firmly towards a Saudi adventure.<\/p>\n
Reports indicated that Benfica were negotiating to acquire 50% of F\u00e9lix\u2019s rights for approximately \u20ac25 million (\u00a321.7 million, $29.3 million). However, the narrative shifted when Fabrizio Romano revealed that Al Nassr, where Cristiano Ronaldo also plays, were in the \u201cfinal stages\u201d of agreeing personal terms with F\u00e9lix. Sky Sports News later confirmed that Chelsea and Al Nassr were close to agreeing on a transfer fee around \u00a344 million ($59.1 million).<\/p>\n
F\u00e9lix joined Chelsea permanently from Atl\u00e9tico Madrid just a year ago for \u00a345 million ($60.5 million). Factoring in the \u00a35 million ($6.7 million) loan fee Chelsea received from AC Milan, who took F\u00e9lix on loan for the latter half of the 2024\u201325 season, the club\u2019s aggressive transfer strategy has yielded a rare positive outcome.<\/p>\n
The departure of F\u00e9lix is reported to expedite Chelsea’s pursuit of Xavi Simons from RB Leipzig, reflecting the club\u2019s ongoing strategy in the transfer market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix is poised to join Al Nassr, with Chelsea securing a surprising profit from the transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[59,304],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","tag-featured","tag-joao-felix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}