{"id":7140,"date":"2025-07-13T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7140\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:19:03","slug":"arsenal-confirm-3rd-signing-from-chelsea-on-top-of-madueke-kepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7140\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal confirm 3rd signing from Chelsea on top of Madueke &#038; Kepa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Arsenal have officially confirmed the signing of Marcell Washington from Chelsea, one of three planned additions from Chelsea this summer.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/arsenal-u21-draw-boreham_mh5wda9p-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Arsenal u21s playing against Boreham Wood (Photo via Arsenal.com)\" class=\"wp-image-332477\" title=\"Arsenal confirm 3rd signing from Chelsea on top of Madueke &amp; Kepa 2\" \/>Photo via Arsenal.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/marcell-washington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcell Washington<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/2025\/07\/arsenal-washington-chelsea-transfer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pictured in training<\/a> with the Arsenal academy last week, effectively confirming his transfer, and the Gunners finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/marcell-washington-signs-professional-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">officially announced<\/a> the move this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal reveal that Washington has now signed professional terms with the club, following his departure from Chelsea. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/kepa-arrizabalaga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/a> has already made the same move this summer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/noni-madueke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noni Madueke<\/a> is in the process of finalising his own transfer between the two clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/chelsea-2025-retained-and-released-players-confirmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">confirmed<\/a> Washington\u2019s exit in June, releasing him at the end of his scholarship contract on June 30th.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"799\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Z92_6435_AK2WrACw_do8z5pyf-1024x799.jpg\" alt=\"Marcell Washington in pre-season training with Arsenal (Photo via Arsenal.com)\" class=\"wp-image-331758\" title=\"Arsenal confirm 3rd signing from Chelsea on top of Madueke &amp; Kepa 3\" \/>Photo via Arsenal.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like just because I\u2019ve signed this contract doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that I\u2019ve made it,\u201d Washington said of the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ve got a lot to prove and I\u2019m looking forward to doing that. Hopefully, obviously, the coaching staff can see that through my game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very welcoming club. From day one when I came here, I felt really welcomed. That goes from the staff to the players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a really big club, obviously. The club are always striving to win trophies. I\u2019m just looking to be an addition to that and see what I can offer the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GjRdlRvXQAA7Qgf-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"Marcell Washington battling with Jurrien Timber for possession in training with Arsenal\" class=\"wp-image-325056\" title=\"Arsenal confirm 3rd signing from Chelsea on top of Madueke &amp; Kepa 4\" \/>Marcell Washington battling with Jurrien Timber for possession in training with Arsenal<\/p>\n<p>Washington has already been seen wearing 55 in training, so it looks like that will be his Arsenal squad number.<\/p>\n<p>The left-back actually made more appearances for the Arsenal academy than Chelsea\u2019s in 2024\/25, playing four times for the Blues and 10 times for the Arsenal u18s and u21s combined whilst on trial in north London.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the season, the defender was effectively the Arsenal u21s\u2019 starting left-back. He\u2019s continued in that same vein by starting the team\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/2025\/07\/arsenal-u21-boreham-wood-2025-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pre-season friendly<\/a> against Boreham Wood on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal have officially confirmed the signing of Marcell Washington from Chelsea, one of three planned additions from Chelsea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[7482,1216,7483,403,99],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal-youth","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-marcell-washington","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","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=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}