{"id":64063,"date":"2025-08-07T02:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64063\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:38:11","slug":"lesley-ugochukwu-departs-chelsea-news-official-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64063\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesley Ugochukwu departs Chelsea | News | Official Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"news-article-page__summary\">&#13;<br \/>\n                Midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu has completed a permanent transfer to fellow Premier League club Burnley.&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Lesley arrived at Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2023, joining from Rennes in his native France.<\/p>\n<p>Ugochukwu made 15 appearances for the Blues in his first season and finished it by representing his country at the Olympic Games in Paris. <\/p>\n<p>He subsequently joined Southampton on loan for the 2024\/25 campaign, featuring 31 times in all competitions for the Saints and scoring once. <\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank Lesley for his contributions at Chelsea and wish him the best of luck for the next stage of his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu has completed a permanent transfer to fellow Premier League club Burnley.&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-64063","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\/64063","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=64063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}