Mauricio Pochettino has been named the next head coach of Chelsea, the team revealed on Monday.
Enrique Cerezo, the president of the Spanish club, announced that Joao Felix is returning to Atletico Madrid after Chelsea decided not to sign the Portugal winger on a permanent basis following his loan agreement.
Felix, 23, joined Chelsea on loan in January for the balance of the 2022–23 season. He made 20 appearances for the Blues and scored four goals.
After a challenging season in which they placed a pitiful 12th in the Premier League, Chelsea announced on Monday that Mauricio Pochettino had been named as their new head coach.
Additionally, Cerezo reportedly told Felix: "The truth is that I can't tell you the plan with Joao," as quoted by Marca.
"It's the news that the new coach doesn't want him for Chelsea, as we learned yesterday. We don't yet have any plans because Joao is currently a player for Atletico.
In 2019, Atletico paid £113 million to Benfica to acquire Felix, who has a deal with them through 2027.
He scored 34 goals in 131 games for Diego Simeone's team, helping them win the LaLiga championship in 2020–21.
The 2022–23 season felt like the end of the world for Chelsea, with most other clubs finding it difficult to bounce back. Chelsea was all over the place on the field after the tumult and wild summer of spending that followed Todd Boehly's takeover in May. They somehow managed to shock us each week with performances that only kept getting worse under three different managers, Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter, and then Frank Lampard.
They finished the season an astonishing 30 points worse off than 2021-22, with their total of 44 their worst points total in any season since 1987-88 (42). Their final position of 12th is their worst Premier League finish since 1993-94, making it their worst in a 38-game season.
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