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Kendry Paez is a professional footballer who will be joining Chelsea in 2025 for a transfer fee of £17 million. The Blues have emphasised building for the future in recent years, with wonderkids such as Estevao Willian also signing the dotted line. Like Estevao, Paez was too young to move to London this summer, so he will have to wait until the 2025/26 season to make his Chelsea debut. That is not an issue, though, as the youngster is developing well in Ecuador, progressing from the under-17 team to the senior international side in the space of a year. Indeed, he played alongside Moises Caiced…