Despite making his debut in January, the promising young right back was elevated to Sport Recife’s first team for the 2024 season.

In late 2023, Lima caught the interest of prominent teams after appearing in all five of Brazil’s U17s World Cup matches before their elimination by Argentina.

Following their recent success in acquiring young South American talent, Chelsea appears to have prevailed in their pursuit of Lima’s signature, continuing a trend started by co-owner Todd Boehly.The owners of Chelsea have paid a fixed cost of €7 million (£6 million) plus €3.5 million (£3 million) in add-ons, and the transfer will be finalized via BlueCo side Strasbourg.

Expert on player transfers Fabrizio Romano has said that Lima’s agency is preparing to fly to west London to finalize the deal.

Lima won the Campeonato Pernambucano in 2024 after moving up the leagues to second-tier Sport Recife from Meninos da Paraiba.Chelsea have acquired Andrey Santоs, Deivid Washingtоn, and Angelо, respectively, frоm Brazil and оther Sоuth American cоuntries, in their pursuit оf yоuthful talent during the past twо years.

This former superstar originally signed with Vasco do Gama but has since been loaned to both Nottingham Forest and Strasbourg.оn the оther hand, Washingtоn and Angelо were members оf Santоs when Chelsea signed them in 2023.

The signing of Chelsea wonderkid Kendry Paez from Independiente del Valle has generated a great deal of interest, and he is expected to make his west London debut in 2025.

After avoiding major consequences for his alleged attendance at a New York City strip club earlier this year, Paez is eager to join Enzo Fernandez at Chelsea.

This time around, Paez promised that it would be “something special” to “share things” with notable players like Enzo. “Wonderful,” she said.