{"id":23138,"date":"2022-07-09T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/09\/chelsea-receive-major-boost-in-pursuit-of-serie-a-star\/"},"modified":"2022-07-09T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T13:00:28","slug":"chelsea-receive-major-boost-in-pursuit-of-serie-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/09\/chelsea-receive-major-boost-in-pursuit-of-serie-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea receive major boost in pursuit of Serie A star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Chelsea have been handed a major boost in their pursuit of defensive reinforcements, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are in desperate need of some fresh legs at centre-back now Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen have departed for Spain.<\/p>\n<p>And a whole host of names have already been tipped for a Stamford Bridge switch, including Sevilla\u2019s Jules Kounde, Matthijs de Ligt of Juventus and former Chelsea star, Nathan Ake.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Fabrizio Romano reported at the end of June that Napoli stopper Kalidou Koulibaly is also on the list of Chelsea targets, with it added that there have been conversations regarding the Senegalese star:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kalidou Koulibaly, one more name in the list for Chelsea as they keep searching for two centre backs. He\u2019s out of contract with Napoli in 2023. ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Been told there are conversations also on Koulibaly alongside de Ligt, Ak\u00e9, Kound\u00e9. Focus on Raphinha, and then centre backs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1541892383197077509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"gg101-at-label absolute\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item flex aic gg101__brandbox--item_no-border\" data-segment='{\"block_widget_id\":\"1706221\",\"block_widget_type\":\"cta-shortcode-button\",\"brand_id\":764778,\"brand_name\":\"William Hill\",\"offer_text\":\"Bet u00a310 &amp; Get u00a330 in Free Bets\"}'>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__image\">\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-json\/xm-link\/william-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__link\">\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/165x165_William-Hill.jpeg\" class=\"\" alt=\"William Hill Brand Logo\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-json\/xm-link\/william-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__link\">Bet \u00a310 &amp; Get \u00a330 in Free Bets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__get-wrapper\" style=\"background-color: #02204a\">\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-json\/xm-link\/william-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__get flex aic jcc mla\"><span class=\"cjbb__fraction only_fraction\" style=\"color:white;\">CLAIM NOW<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox-t-and-c\">18+. 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The Blues are in desperate need of some fresh legs at centre-back now Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen have departed for Spain. And a whole host of names have already been tipped for a Stamford Bridge switch, including Sevilla\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-23138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}