{"id":553082,"date":"2026-07-21T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/553082\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:18:09","slug":"second-most-expensive-deal-in-the-premier-league-chelsea-officially-announce-the-signing-of-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/553082\/","title":{"rendered":"Second most expensive deal in the Premier League.. Chelsea officially announce the signing of Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have completed the signing of England international Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa, the club confirmed on Tuesday evening, adding fresh firepower to the Blues&#8217; ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has put pen to paper on a deal running until 2033, Chelsea announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/morgan-rogers-signs-for-chelsea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">their official website<\/a>, and will link up with Xabi Alonso&#8217;s squad ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">He arrives at Stamford Bridge having made himself one of the Premier League&#8217;s brightest young attackers.<\/p>\n<p>At Villa, Rogers had a hand in 40 goals across 85 Premier League appearances, firing the club to a fourth-place finish before they lifted the Europa League trophy last season.<\/p>\n<p>Since his senior England debut in November 2024, he has grown into a mainstay for the Three Lions. Rogers has won 22 caps and featured at the 2026 World Cup, where England finished third.<\/p>\n<p>Several English media outlets put the fee at 117 million euros (138 million euros), making Rogers the second most expensive signing in Premier League history, behind only Alexander Isak&#8217;s 125 million pound switch from Newcastle to Liverpool last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal had led the chase for Rogers early in the summer window. Then Chelsea pounced, snatching the player from under the Gunners&#8217; noses.<\/p>\n<p>To announce the deal, Chelsea posted a video of Rogers on their official &#8220;X&#8221; page with the caption &#8220;chose Chelsea&#8221;, a nod to the tug-of-war with Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have completed the signing of England international Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa, the club confirmed on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4026,42659,4027,85,46,251078,105,9461],"class_list":["post-553082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-aston-villa","tag-chelsea","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-m-rogers","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}