{"id":714142,"date":"2026-07-27T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714142\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:03:08","slug":"chelsea-news-welbeck-and-henderson-what-are-your-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714142\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea news: Welbeck and Henderson – what are your views?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many fans called for Chelsea to introduce experience into the club’s ranks and it seems the hierarchy at Stamford Bridge have been listening.<\/p>\n

In the summer where the Blues moved for Granit Xhaka, they are now in talks to sign both Danny Welbeck from Brighton<\/a> and Jordan Henderson from Brentford.<\/p>\n

So, is pursuing the pair – Welbeck is 35 and Henderson 36 – a wise move or are the Blues going from one extreme to another? Is there a better balance to be struck? Or do you think these older heads will offer plenty?<\/p>\n

Get in touch with your views here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many fans called for Chelsea to introduce experience into the club’s ranks and it seems the hierarchy at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-714142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}