Joao Felix cost Chelsea £4m per goal and £750k per appearance during loan spell

Chelsea paid nearly £4 million for every goal Joao Felix scored during his loan spell at the club – and a whopping £750,000 per appearance.

New Blues boss Mauricio Pochettino has already decided not to sign Felix, who joined Atletico Madrid on loan from Atletico Madrid in January for an initial £9million, on a permanent contract following his appointment as head coach on Monday.

Reports also indicated that the West London club would pay all of its Atletico salaries at the time, which are said to be worth £250,000 a week.

However, Felix then got off to the worst start imaginable when he was sent off on his debut for a dangerous tackle on Fulham’s Kenny Tete.

The straight red card saw him miss their next three games, marking an immediate financial blow to Chelsea after their significant spending on a six-month transfer.

New Blues boss Mauricio Pochettino has turned down the chance to sign Felix permanently

The Portuguese star struggled for consistency and end product in his time at Stamford Bridge

On his return, the Portuguese striker opened his Blues account with a cool finish away at West Ham, but he scored just three more goals in a further 14 appearances, while not registering an assist.

Felix struggled for consistency and final product in the second half of the season, squandered some golden opportunities in the final third, and when Potter was sacked as head coach in early April, he subsequently fell out of favor under caretaker manager Frank Lampard. .

Lampard gave the Atletico loanee just three starts in his 11 games in charge, although he marked two of his substitute appearances with goals against Bournemouth and Manchester United.

As he now prepares to return to Madrid after his short stint in London, Felix has cost Chelsea a total of £15 million in six months; amounting to £6 million in wages, as well as his £9 million loan.

Breaking that down even further, his disappointing four-goal return means Todd Boehly and Co effectively paid £3.75 million for every goal he scored and £750,000 for each of his 20 appearances.

The 23-year-old helped Chelsea win just four games, which also equates to £3.75 million per win. And in terms of minutes – Felix scored 1,187 in total – the Blues spent an incredible £12,000 for every 60 seconds he spent on the pitch.

But with Pochettino unwilling to include him in his squad next season, he now returns to parent club Atletico, where he is under contract until 2027.

Felix scored four goals for Chelsea, meaning the club spent around £4 million each

For every appearance he made (20 in all), the Blues earned an estimated £750,000

One dilemma Pochettino may have considered when weighing a possible deal for Felix is ​​his ambiguous playing position, something Lampard alluded to before a recent defeat at Arsenal.

While he can operate flexibly as a false nine, No. 10 or winger, it’s unclear which role best suits the Atletico star, leading Lampard to leave him out of his starting line-up on several occasions.

“There is no doubt he has tremendous talent,” the agent said of Felix on Sky Sports. “That is really visible in the daily training, in those moments when he shows what he can do in the neighborhood.

“I think I probably need to find a clear structure and a clear off-the-ball idea for how we work before coming, and that’s the challenge with Joao.

“I agree, and if you ask him, he’s not final either – he wants to play here, but he can also play here – which can be a plus sometimes, but if he’s not a nine for sure, I have need something similar to a nine, to me, for the way I want to play. Those are the things that Joao has to show, whether it’s here or wherever his future is, I don’t know.