Chelsea condemned after unveiling Joao Felix signing in the WRONG language

Chelsea’s new signing Joao Felix did not exactly receive the welcome he would have expected at his new club, after the Blues greeted him in the wrong language on Wednesday. 

Upon the completion of his deal to join Chelsea until the end of the season, the team’s Twitter account welcomed him to Stamford Bridge in Spanish – despite the fact the Atletico Madrid loanee is a 28-time Portugal international. 

Felix spoke of his happiness at having joined Graham Potter’s side on Wednesday and wasted no time in joining in training with his new club, and supporters will hope the 23-year-old can end their trend of big-name flops up front. 

The 23-year-old has joined the West London club on loan for the rest of the 2022-23 season

Felix officially became a Chelsea player on January 11, after the club agreed to pay a £9million loan fee, as well as pay the entirety of his £5.3m wages for the duration of his stay in west London.

However, in their announcement of his arrival, the Chelsea accounted tweeted: ‘#HolaFelix,’ with ‘Hola’ being the Spanish word for hello, rather than the Portuguese ‘Ola’.

And although the club were quick to share several new snaps of their latest arrival, the customary hashtag was nowhere to be seen. 

Felix’s welcome message from the Blues’ Twitter account was in the wrong language

And fans were quick to pick up on the error, with one writing: ‘#HolaFelix’ lads you might wanna double check his nationality.’

Another added: ‘F*** sake, he’s not even Spanish… Why is the hashtag #HolaFélix trending? Only just realised.’ 

And a third said: ‘Don’t get upset with #HolaFelix . It’s normal that Irish teams don’t know the difference.’ 

Chelsea will cover the Portugal star’s £5.3m wages for the duration of his loan spell 

A fourth Twitter user claimed: ‘They think Spanish is spoken in Portugal. Considering it’s an English club, not surprising.’

But for one supporter, it was clearly an…