{"id":122939,"date":"2025-08-31T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/122939\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:51:16","slug":"chelsea-confirm-e42m-christopher-nkunku-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/122939\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea confirm \u20ac42m Christopher Nkunku sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea have confirmed the sale of Christopher Nkunku to AC Milan as the Blues continue their squad restructure as the window draws to a close.<\/p>\n

Nkunku moves on\"FabrizioFabrizio Romano confirms Christopher Nkunku\u2019s move to AC Milan.<\/p>\n

The sale was a long process, even if the Milan deal came together quite quickly. It has been clear since about January that Nkunku was keen to go, and since then there have been lots of rumours.<\/p>\n

Bayern Munich and a return to RB Leipzig were mentioned a lot this summer, but neither really made a concrete move, and in the end Milan have their man for an initial \u00a337m, with a potential \u20ac5m in add-ons taking it to \u20ac42m, according to Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n

His replacement Alejandro Garnacho was present at Stamford Bridge yesterday for the game against Fulham.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nkunku injury means his Chelsea career never got started<\/p>\n

Football often comes down to \u201csliding doors\u201d moments, where one small difference leads to a totally different outcome far down the line. There are few better examples than Nkunku. His first preseason saw him installed as the creative hub of the newly appointed Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

He looked great, as did the team. But a serious knee injury picked up in the final preseason game<\/a> ruled him out until Christmas. That derailed all our best laid plans, and the team took a while to get back together after that, seriously damaging Pochettino\u2019s chances of a successful season.<\/p>\n

It also created the space for Cole Palmer to emerge. Once Nkunku was back, the youngster had established himself, and the 18 months since Nkunku\u2019s return have just seen him struggling for minutes ahead of the team\u2019s talisman.<\/p>\n

A move to Milan makes sense for Nkunku, and while it leaves Chelsea a little short of attacking options in the short term, it\u2019s a move we\u2019ve expected for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have confirmed the sale of Christopher Nkunku to AC Milan as the Blues continue their squad restructure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-122939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}