Chelsea midfielder Andrey Santos has returned to Ligue 1 club Strasbourg on a loan deal for the 2024-25 campaign.
The French club are owned by BlueCo, the multi-club ownership group which also controls Chelsea.
The Brazilian has been capped once by his country and returns to Strasbourg for a second spell having spent the second half of the 2023-24 season at the French side.
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Santos arrived at Stamford Bridge in January 2023 from Brazilian club Vasco da Gama in a deal worth £18million ($22.8m), with the 20-year-old then rejoining the club in March last year.
He spent the first half of last season on loan at Nottingham Forest but played just seven minutes of Premier League action for the club, as he featured in the 3-0 defeat at Liverpool in October 2023.
Chelsea recalled Santos from the City Ground in January before loaning him to Strasbourg, for whom he scored one goal in 11 appearances.
He returned to Chelsea this summer and had been a part of Enzo Maresca’s pre-season squad that is in the United States.
Strasbourg finished 13th in Ligue 1 last season and made a managerial change over the summer, with Patrick Vieira leaving by mutual consent and replaced by Liam Rosenior.
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