The excellent season made by Andrey Santos with RC Strasbourg allows him to deserve a luxury place in the Chelsea workforce. However, several parameters are currently slowing such an operation.
Purchased by Chelsea in 2023, Andrey Santos has never had the chance to evolve in the training of blues. Only loaned to the Vasco Da Gama after a first failure to obtain his work permit, he was then loaned to Nottingham Forest during the 2023-2024 season. But after six months completely failed, he left the Premier League and joined the RC Strasbourg, another club in the Galaxy Blueco. His performances being much better, he is again loaned to the Alsatian club for the 2024-2025 season.
A successful bet since the Brazilian is one of the strong men in Ligue 1. under the tutelage of Liam Rosenior, Andrey Santos scored 10 goals and delivered 5 assists. Statistics that it is rare to have when playing in its position. Inevitably, at the end of this story, there are the leaders of Chelsea who rub their hands. Except that the fact that the two teams can play in the same European competition next season generates great concern at Blueco.
Andrey Santos, Strasbourg ou chelsea?
Until now, everything brought to believe that Andey Santos was going to start from Strasbourg with the aim of gleaning his holder’s place in Chelsea for next season. However, we moved away from this certainty. As the Daily Mail indicates, the two Blueco teams agreed to wait for the end of the season before seeing what would be done for Andrey Santos. Above all, American billionaires at the head of the two clubs, who recently gathered in Strasbourg, want to wait to know in which European competitions they will evolve next season. Because UEFA rules are strict about clubs belonging to the same owner.
As recently indicated in UEFA referent, two clubs belonging to the same owner and evolving in the same European competition have no right to make transfers or loans from players between them. Clearly, Blueco would shoot himself in the foot by making his two clubs residents of the same European Cup. And if Strasbourg qualifies for the same competition as his parent club, then Andrey Santos will not definitively return to Alsace.
