'More about accounting that football'

Joao Felix Chelsea"It's a chance for me to find a home," Joao Felix said when unveiled in his first Chelsea interview, adding: "After two loans, Chelsea and Barca, I needed to stay permanently in one place."

In the 2022-23 season, he started at Atletico Madrid but got a mid-season loan to Chelsea. The Blues didn't make his loan permanent, leading to a season on loan at Barcelona. Now, after six more months on a permanent deal at Chelsea, Felix has joined AC Milan on loan.

Lurching from superclub to superclub is a strange existence for a player who cost Atletico Madrid £113m and cost Chelsea £45m in the summer, when he was given a seven-year deal.

Simply, at Chelsea, he has not been good enough…