{"id":556542,"date":"2026-07-18T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:39:10","slug":"aston-villa-accept-117m-morgan-rogers-bid-from-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556542\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa accept \u00a3117m Morgan Rogers bid from Chelsea &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa have reportedly accepted a \u00a3117m bid for Morgan Rogers from Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers, who is currently with the England squad in Miami for their World Cup third\/fourth play-off with France, is set for a medical on Monday ahead of signing a six-year contract at Stamford Bridge, with the option of a further year.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has enjoyed a rapid rise at Villa Park following his move from Middlesbrough in January 2024 and helped fire Villa to a top-four finish and the Europa League last season.<\/p>\n<p>Villa, who also sold Youri Tielemans to Manchester United for \u00a335m earlier in the week, feel the fee represents a good deal.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of the FIFA 2026 World Cup live on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player with highlights on RT\u00c9 Sport digital platforms and live blogs on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa have reportedly accepted a \u00a3117m bid for Morgan Rogers from Chelsea. Rogers, who is currently with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-556542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556542","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=556542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}