Chelsea are apparently on the verge of making their next signing of the current transfer summer.<\/p>\n
According to information from Fabrizio Romano, the London club have signed another player, left-back Pep Chavarria from Rayo Vallecano.<\/p>\n
All parties have already reached an agreement. Chavarria is on his way to England to undergo the obligatory medical on site.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Spaniard will reportedly cost a base fee of around \u20ac19 million, with the total package potentially rising to \u20ac21 million including bonus payments. Chelsea are getting Chavarria a little more cheaply than the \u20ac25 million release clause in the left-back’s contract.<\/p>\n
Xabi Alonso in particular is said to have pushed strongly for Chavarria’s signing. The Spanish coach is evidently planning to use his compatriot as a first-choice option on the left side of defence. Alongside Chelsea, Bayer 04 Leverkusen were also said to be interested in a transfer.<\/p>\n
Getty ImagesChelsea’s spending spree continues<\/p>\n
At the Blues, Chavarria would already be the seventh signing of the current transfer window after Morgan Rogers (for \u20ac138 million from Aston Villa), Marco Palestra (for \u20ac57 million from Atalanta Bergamo), Geovany Quenda (for \u20ac50 million from Sporting Lisbon), Emanuel Emegha (for \u20ac25 million from Racing Strasbourg), Danny Welbeck (for \u20ac6 million from Brighton & Hove Albion), Jordan Henderson (on a free transfer) and Dastan Satpaev (for \u20ac2.4 million from Qairat Almaty). Added to that are countless returning loanees.<\/p>\n
Against that, only Andrey Santos (for \u20ac56 million to Manchester United), Marc Cucurella (for \u20ac55 million to Real Madrid) and Tyrique George (for \u20ac21 million to Everton) have been sold. In total, Alonso’s squad currently contains 39 players, and at least some of them still have to be sold before the end of the transfer window.<\/p>\n
Chelsea’s new Premier League season begins with an away game at Fulham on 24 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea are apparently on the verge of making their next signing of the current transfer summer. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[219,59,693,241472,221,241471,101,568,56,54,55,198771],"class_list":["post-730576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-gb","tag-laliga","tag-p-chavarria","tag-premier-league","tag-rayo-vallecano","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-x-alonso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730576","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=730576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}