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Chelsea youngster Jesse Derry has explained why he believes Sporting is the right place for his development after making his first appearance for the Portuguese club.<\/strong><\/p>\n The 19-year-old, who joined Sporting on a season-long loan after signing a new Chelsea contract<\/strong>spoke to the club\u2019s media following his debut and outlined why the move appealed to him. His words were relayed by To Ball<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been fantastic. All the players welcomed me really well,\u201d<\/em> Derry said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been incredible and playing in front of the fans was a surreal moment. They were incredible and I can\u2019t wait for more games.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The winger believes Sporting\u2019s style of play suits his strengths and is looking forward to continuing his development in Portugal.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way Sporting play suits my style. The league is incredible. The supporters are incredible as well and I can\u2019t wait to play at the stadium,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n Derry has arrived from Chelsea after an impressive breakthrough campaign, with the Blues sending him to Sporting on loan after extending his contract in west London.<\/p>\n The England U19 international also revealed what wearing the No. 28 shirt means to him.<\/p>\n That was the number Cristiano Ronaldo wore when he first broke into Sporting\u2019s senior side before his move to Manchester United.<\/p>\n \u201cRonaldo is everyone\u2019s idol. Wearing his number is a privilege and I can\u2019t wait to wear it more often,\u201d<\/em> Derry explained.<\/p>\n The teenager also spoke warmly about former Sporting winger Geovany Quenda, who completed the opposite move to Chelsea this summer.<\/p>\n \u201cQuenda is an incredible guy. He\u2019ll do well,\u201d<\/em> Derry said, before also praising Sporting manager Rui Borges.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s an incredible coach. You saw how the team played against Celtic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Derry made his unofficial debut on Tuesday as Sporting thrashed Celtic 4-1 in a pre-season friendly. He came on after the break and played a part in the build-up to one of the goals. Looks like a good start for the Cobham gem.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea youngster Jesse Derry has explained why he believes Sporting is the right place for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Derry explains Sporting decision<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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