Nathan won't be in Chelsea's squad next season, reveals Mourinho

The young Brazilian joined the club in a reported £4.5 million deal earlier this week, but is not set to join the first-team picture and may instead join Vitesse on loan.Jose Mourinho says that new signing Nathan will not join Chelsea’s first-team squad next season, and is instead likely to go out on loan.The Blues announced on Thursday that they had secured the signing of the 19-year-old for a reported fee of £4.5 million.The midfielder will join up with his new team-mates in July, but Mourinho has confirmed that he is likely to depart the club on a short-term basis, with Nathan likely to tread the well-worn path to Vitesse, following in the footsteps of current loanees Wallace, Josh McEachran and Bertrand Traore.

Nathan will not be in Chelsea’s squad next year, simple as that,” Mourinho told reporters.You buy, in very good circumstances before the price goes to the moon. You develop the player. He belongs to you, is on loan, and in the right moment you bring him back.Chelsea have 26 players currently out on loan, and their academy system has been the subject of controversy in recent months.Mourinho, though, insists that the club’s philosophy works, and says that he always has the best interests of the players at heart.These kids trust us and know what we do is the best for them,” he added. They know the decisions for next season are the best decisions for them. Ruben (Loftus-Cheek) is going to stay as a member of the first-team squad.The others who have been here in the seniors for one year are ready for the next step: that’s not the first team but a loan to a good team, to a good league and then to come back.That would open space for kids who are now in the academy to be in the first-team squad next season. So imagine (Andreas) Christensen going on loan. If he does, he goes to a high-level market.It opens space for another defender in the academy now to become part of the first team. If his development in the first team is so strong, like Ruben’s, that allows him to stay in the first team for ever, then perfect. If not, he reaches another level and gets another loan. So, for example, maybe Ola Aina will be in our first-team squad next year.We have this system in place for them – and I know it brings results.