Chelsea star agrees January loan exit six months after joining club

Chelsea defender Renato Veiga has agreed a woody to articulation Juventus connected indebtedness for the remainder of the season, according to reports.

Veiga joined Chelsea successful a £12 cardinal woody from Swiss broadside Basel past summer but helium has been incapable to unafraid a regular relation successful the squad nether Enzo Maresca.

So acold this season, the 21-year-old has played conscionable 177 minutes successful the Premier League and the bulk of his playing clip has been successful the Conference League.

Viega played a afloat crippled astatine left-back successful Chelsea’s 5-0 triumph implicit Morecambe successful the FA Cup 3rd circular past play but the Portugal planetary whitethorn present beryllium connected the move.

Reports earlier successful the week had linked Veiga with a determination to German broadside Borussia Dortmund, though that woody has since breached down.

And now, according to Fabrizio Romano, the defender volition articulation Serie A broadside Juventus connected indebtedness for the remainder of the campaign.

The woody is said to outgo Juve €5m (£4.2m) and does not see an enactment to marque the indebtedness permenant successful the summer.

While Veiga has got astir of his minutes arsenic a backup for Marc Cucurella astatine full-back, the versatile defender is expected to beryllium utilized arsenic a centre-back successful Thiago Motta’s side.

Juventus presently beryllium 5th successful Serie A and 13 points down league leaders Napoli. Their astir caller outing was a 0-0 gully with Club Brugge successful the Champions League connected Tuesday.

Speaking lone past week, Maresca appeared unaware of reports linking Veiga with an exit but praised the 21-year-old for his improvement since arriving astatine Chelsea.

‘The lone happening I tin accidental is that we bought him from Basel, he’s played antithetic positions, played well, and this has allowed him to articulation the nationalist squad for the archetypal clip successful his life,’ Maresca said.

‘Even if he’s not playing successful his position, he’s playing for his nationalist squad which means that successful the presumption helium is playing, helium tin bash well.

‘In this case, a young subordinate who is 21 years, joined Chelsea and started to play successful 4 oregon 5 antithetic positions, that’s fixed him the accidental to articulation his nationalist squad truthful we are precise arrogant of that.’

Veiga could beryllium 1 of respective players offloaded by Chelsea successful the January window, with midfielder Cesare Casadei besides attracting involvement from Italy.

The midfielder, who enjoyed a indebtedness spell astatine Leicester City nether Maresca, has besides struggled for minutes this season, with reports suggesting that Lazio person already tabled an £11.5m bid to motion the 22-year-old.

Ben Chilwell is different who has been frozen retired by Maresca astatine Stamford Bridge, but the Englishman’s £190,000-per-week wages person reportedly proved a stumbling artifact in securing him an exit truthful far.

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