{"id":603964,"date":"2026-09-02T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/603964\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:30:11","slug":"chelsea-eye-shock-wijnaldum-swoop-blues-turn-to-free-agent-after-deadline-day-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/603964\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea eye shock Wijnaldum swoop! Blues turn to free agent after deadline day chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blues head coach Alonso is now looking into the free-agent market in a bid to bolster his options. Alonso views the former Newcastle midfielder as a pragmatic solution, with his 217 Premier League appearances across spells at St James&#8217; Park and Liverpool providing a plug-and-play profile that requires minimal adaptation time.<\/p>\n<p>Wijnaldum&#8217;s credentials at the highest level are well established, having cemented his status as a Liverpool icon by winning the Premier League, Champions League, Club World Cup, and Super Cup. However, his exit from Anfield still divides opinion; the Dutchman surprised Liverpool executives five years ago when he rejected a contract extension to join Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blues head coach Alonso is now looking into the free-agent market in a bid to bolster his options.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4027,272952,85,46,2619,105,9461],"class_list":["post-603964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-g-wijnaldum","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603964","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=603964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}