Chelsea transfer news: 21-year-old bid 'rejected' after £11.7m Enzo Maresca decision

Chelsea person seemingly turned down a connection from Wolverhampton Wanderers to motion Renato Veiga during the January transportation window.

The 21-year-old has mostly been portion of Enzo Maresca's unofficial 'B' squad since making the determination to Stamford Bridge from Basel successful a €14m (£11.7m) deal during the summertime transportation window.

Veiga has started each Conference League crippled for the Blues this season, registering 2 goals and 1 assistance successful those six appearances, but helium has played conscionable 176 minutes successful the Premier League.

Six of the youngster's 7 appearances successful the English apical formation person travel arsenic a substitute, and helium has failed to gain immoderate minutes successful the Premier League since December's enthralling 4-3 triumph implicit Tottenham Hotspur.

Veiga's declaration successful West London inactive runs for different six-and-a-half years, but his deficiency of crippled clip and versatility - having featured arsenic some a left-back and antiaircraft midfielder this play - person made him an charismatic imaginable for a January exit.

Veiga 'keen' connected Chelsea exit arsenic Wolves bid rejected

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A caller study claimed that some Wolves and Bournemouth were considering swoops for Veiga successful January, and according to talkSPORT, Vitor Pereira's men person present made their archetypal move.

However, Wolves were rapidly fixed the acold enarthrosis by Chelsea, though it is not wide whether the Old Gold made a imperishable connection oregon were alternatively looking to instrumentality him connected indebtedness for the remainder of the season.

Veiga is believed to beryllium keen connected a determination elsewhere this period to summation his playing time, but the study adds that it is not yet known whether Wolves volition travel backmost with a 2nd connection for the ex-Basel man.

Despite being connected the fringes of Maresca's squad, Veiga's awesome exploits successful the Conference League caught the oculus of Portugal brag Roberto Martinez, who has included the defender successful each of his past 3 Selecao squads.

Veiga made his elder Portugal debut successful a 3-1 triumph implicit Poland successful October, starting arsenic a cardinal defender earlier reprising that relation against the aforesaid hostile and Croatia successful November's matches.

Why it makes consciousness for Chelsea to support Veiga

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While Veiga is yet to genuinely marque his people successful the Premier League, the 21-year-old has already showcased his attacking prowess successful the Conference League, arsenic good arsenic his adaptability to antithetic positions for some nine and country.

Veiga has mostly featured arsenic a left-back for Chelsea, whose options connected that broadside are acceptable to beryllium reduced by the expected exit of Ben Chilwell, whom Maresca has confirmed is apt to depart this month.

Chilwell has been mostly frozen retired anyway, but his departure would deprive Chelsea of different enactment successful the left-back position, portion midfielder Cesare Casadei is besides expected to question pastures caller successful the coming weeks.

Furthermore, injuries to Benoit Badiashile and Wesley Fofana successful the bosom of defence could contiguous Veiga with an accidental astatine centre-back, wherever helium has already made an content astatine planetary level.

An astronomical connection volition of people beryllium taken into information by Chelsea, but the Blues should crook their chemoreceptor up to immoderate much indebtedness proposals that get betwixt present and deadline day.

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