‘I don’t know what they’re doing’ – Chelsea fans dismayed at transfer policy as Andrey Santos loaned to Nottingham Forest
Chelsea's decision to send Andrey Santos on loan has left Blues fans questioning their club's transfer policy.
The 19-year-old signed for Chelsea last season, joining from Brazilian club Vasco da Gama for a reported fee of £13million.
He went back out on loan to his boyhood club for the second half of last season, before returning to London for pre-season and even featured heavily for the Blues this summer.
Now, Chelsea have made the decision to send him out on loan to gain some Premier League experience, giving him to Nottingham Forest on a season-long loan.
But talkSPORT's Hawksbee and Jacobs co-host Andy Jacobs has been left baffled by Chelsea's handling of Santos' career path, questioning why the Blues have made it so difficult for the teenager to break into the first team squad.
«I'm going off what [talkSPORT's South American football correspondent] Tim Vickery said and I've seen him in pre-season. He looked very good,» he said on Friday's show.
«I just don't understand this, the whole recruitment at Chelsea, I don't get it. I don't get what they're doing. They sign this bloke who's a great, Under-20s player in the World Championships, he's a top prospect.
»Then they block his pathway by signing three other defensive midfielders. Why have they done that?"
After selling midfielders Mason Mount, Mateo Kovacic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and letting N'Golo Kante go on a free transfer, Chelsea signed record-breaking signing Moises Caicedo, Southampton's Romeo Lavia and Lesley Ugochukwu from Rennes.
But despite Todd Boehly and co splashing £197m on the trio, Jacobs is confused why they did so when they have a player of Santos' quality on their books.
When asked if it's because Chelsea feel that those three stars are more ready than him,
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