Exclusive says Chelsea will wait until summer to consider future of attacker they never looked like wanting | OneFootball

The rumours about Joao Felix being unhappy at Chelsea because of a lack of game time started a couple of weeks ago and haven’t eased off despite him getting a start on Monday night in the loss to Ipswich.

The Portugal international arrived in the summer but has so far only regularly seen action in the cup competitions as Enzo Maresca continues to prefer other options in the Premier League.

Felix took a wage cut to make the £42m move to Chelsea in the summer – although he’s apparently still on £170,000 a week.

That makes him hard to move on, even if we wanted to. For now, the attacking midfielder is probably just pretty happy to be out of his long-running nightmare at Atletico Madrid, and he will have no problem putting up with a season of struggling for first team minutes.

If he’s in the same position a year from now, we will start to take these concerns much more seriously.

Chelsea and Felix patient – but things trending in the wrong direction

Chelsea signed Joao Felix from Atletico Madrid. (Photo by Ryan Hiscott/Getty Images)

An exclusive from GiveMeSport today reported that Felix and Chelsea are in no rush to change things up – both will wait until the summer to assess how things are going.

But things are hardly going to get easier then. More attacking talent will arrive, and if Felix hasn’t found his place in the squad by then, a sale becomes much more likely.

We never thought that a move for Felix would work out, and we were surprised the club went for him, especially after having got to se

The transfer always felt it was more about handing over Atletico the cash so they could pay us for Conor Gallagher than it was about a real desire or need for Felix.