Sevilla FC and Manchester United FC have reached a agreement for the loan until the end of the season of the Brazilian left-back Alex Nicolao Telles (Caixas do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, December 15, 1992), once the footballer landed last night in Seville and this morning passed the pertinent medical examination and signed his contract. After training at the Esporte Clube Juventude in his hometown, at the age of 20 he took the first big leap in his career and signed for the Gremio de Porto Alegre for the 2012/13 season. In the gaúcho tricolor he plays 36 games in Serie A -one goal and three assists- and three in the Copa Libertadores, in which he provides another assist. Such is his impact on the elite of Brazilian football, that his jump to Europe was not long in coming.
Specifically, in the winter market of the 2013/14 season he lands in Istanbul to play at Galatasaray. Just a few days later, he made his Champions League debut, playing every minute of the round of 16 tie against Chelsea, in which the Turks lost 3-1 on aggregate. Telles closes the season with 15 appearances in the Süper Lig -one goal and two assists- and four in the Turkish Cup, whose trophy ends up being lifted after defeating Eskisehirspor in the final. The following year began with a defeat in the Super Cup against Fenerbahce, but his team won the league title and also reissued the cup. Telles contributes a total of 31 games in domestic competition -one goal and one assist- as well as five in the Champions League.
In 2015/16 he has time to win the Super Cup against Bursaspor and to play the first two days of the Süper Lig, but before the market closes signs his loan to Inter Milan, where he once again coincides with Roberto Mancini, the coach of his first six months in Turkey. With the interistas he plays 21 games in Serie A -one assist- and another in the Coppa Italia. And from there to Portugal, well In July 2016 his transfer to FC Porto was signed, in which he completed four seasons. In the first he becomes essential for Nuno Espirito Santo and plays 32 league games -one goal and eight assists-, four in both cups and nine in the Champions League, with two assists. The following year, with Sergio Conceição, he increased his league figures and also takes the title -30 games, three goals and 14 assists- and completes his figures with eight cup matches and four assists, as well as seven Champions League games -one goal and two assists-.
He has won leagues with Galatasaray and Porto, and will play in the Champions League for the eighth time in ten years
His third year with the dragones starts with the Super Cup title against Desportivo Aves, an exercise in which practically everything plays. 33 Liga NOS games -four goals and eight assists-, nine in both cups -one goal and one assist- and ten in the Champions League -goal and three assists- complete his service record in Portugal, which would end in the 2019/20 season, the one interrupted by the pandemic. In her Porto are league champions again, with no fewer than 31 appearances, eleven goals and eight assists from Alex Telles, who ends up being awarded as MVP of the tournament. He played two UCL qualifiers and eight UEL games that season, in which he reached the final of the League Cup -defeat against Braga- and the Portuguese Cup, which took his record with a decisive victory against the Benfica. He ends his last year in Porto with 49 official matches, 13 goals and 12 assists.
All this progression does not go unnoticed by the great referents of European football and In October 2020, his transfer to Manchester United is announced, a club he has defended for the last two seasons.. In 2020/21, in which he got to play three games with FC Porto in which he scored two goals and two assists, he played nine Premier League games -two assists-, three in the FA Cup -one assist-, one in the League Cup, four in the Champions League -and seven in the UEL-one more assist-. This last season he has expanded his numbers in the Premier, with 21 appearances and four assists. He also played four Champions League games -one goal- and one in the League Cup.
Regarding his international experience, Alex Telles accumulates six games with the canarinha. He debuted with the Brazilian team in March 2019 in a friendly against Panama, precisely in Porto. At the end of 2020, already as a United player, he participated in the first three qualifying days for Qatar 2022, while, recently, closed this same tournament in February and March with matches against Paraguay and Bolivia. Although he didn’t get minutes, he made Tite’s last roster so far, last June for friendlies against South Korea and Japan.