Veiga, 22, joins for a fee in the region of €30 million ($34.9m), sources have told ESPN. He only moved to Chelsea last summer in a deal worth around €14m from Basel and made just one Premier League start before spending the second half of the campaign on loan at Juventus.

Villarreal says it has signed Chelsea defender Renato Veiga to a seven-year contract. The reported fee of 24 million euros plus add-ons would make Veiga one of the most expensive signings in Villarreal’s history.