Kenedy sent home from Chelsea tour over offensive Instagram posts to Chinese

Chelsea have sent Kenedy home from their pre-season tour of the Far East as a punishment for his offensive Instagram posts in China.

Standard Sport revealed yesterday that Chelsea were planning to take further action on top of the heavy fine that had already been imposed and the Brazilian is now facing an uncertain future at Stamford Bridge.

Kenedy's messages in Portuguese were written a day before Chelsea played Arsenal in Beijing on Saturday.

One roughly translated as "f*** China" and another included a picture of a sleeping security guard to which he said "wake up China, idiot".


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After coming under criticism from many followers on his page, the 21-year-old deleted what he wrote and apologised, but it was too late.

Kenedy was booed by the crowd in the Bird's Nest Stadium when he came on as a substitute against Arsenal.

Chelsea have taken a few days to decide whether he would remain with the squad or not.

They issued a long statement of apology themselves to China and their Chinese fanbase on Sunday, but have concluded that it was not enough and it would be wrong to keep Kenedy within the ranks.

Coach Antonio Conte was consulted about the decision and agreed that he should return to London.

It is understood that he left the club's base in Singapore early on Tuesday morning local time.