Neymar Santos to Chelsea

Chelsea is going to launch a �25 million bid for Santos wonder kid Neymar. His performance in the past 12 months has attracted the interest of Chelsea and other European clubs. In 2010, he scored a total of 27 goals in 29 matches. Neymar main achievement is helping Santos winning the Brazilian Paulista Championship. In addition, he won the best player award due to his brilliant performance and scoring 14 goals in 19 games.

Neymar full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Junior and he was born in Mogi das Cruzes of Brazil on the 5 February 1992. He made his debut with Santos against Oeste Futbol Clube at the age of 17 on the 7 March 2009. Santos won the game 2-1. A week later, he scored his first goal for the club on his next appearance against Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube. He is considered to be one of the most exciting young talents ever to come out of South America. Because of this, Santos has tied down Neymar with a contract until 2014 and has a release clause of �28.4 million. Any club that want the service of the Neymar will have to fork out the astonishing amount of money. However, Chelsea bid of �25 million might be sufficient enough to persuade Santos to accept the offer.

Chelsea has been following with the development of the teenager and did not make any move to sign the teenager until his 18th birthday. The Brazilian rules prohibited him from registering with a team outside Brazil. Lastly, he is 40% owned by a group of investors but to be able to play in England, the third party owners would have to be bought out entirely.