{"id":214244,"date":"2025-12-28T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214244\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:21:07","slug":"james-mcatee-to-chelsea-blues-check-on-nottingham-forest-outcast-just-months-after-30m-switch-from-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214244\/","title":{"rendered":"James McAtee to Chelsea?! Blues &#8216;check&#8217; on Nottingham Forest outcast just months after \u00a330m switch from Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to build on a successful summer which saw him captain England U21s to their second successive European Championship in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/double-deal-nottingham-forest-man-city-james-mcatee-ipswich-omari-hutchinson\/blt91eec2f52c6baca4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McAtee joined Forest<\/a> in a deal worth up to \u00a330 million (\u20ac34m\/$40.5m) two months later, penning a five-year contract at the City Ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel ready for a new challenge and the Club had a great season last year so I want to help build on that and show what I can do,\u201d McAtee told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamforest.co.uk\/news\/2025\/august\/16\/forest-sign-james-mcatee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Forest\u2019s official club website<\/a> back in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy to be here and really looking forward to getting started with my new teammates and I know the ambition of everyone associated with the Club which is something I want to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McAtee enjoyed two successful seasons on loan at Sheffield United between 2022 and 2024, helping the Blades earn promotion to the Premier League in 2022-23. However, he found first-team minutes hard to come by at Pep Guardiola\u2019s City, making just 15 top-flight appearances last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking to build on a successful summer which saw him captain England U21s to their second successive European&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109746,6898,111329,61,60,111328,8579,9884,1102,112,49497],"class_list":{"0":"post-214244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-c-palmer","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-e-maresca","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-j-mcatee","14":"tag-manchester-city","15":"tag-nottingham-forest","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-transfers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}