{"id":4620,"date":"2022-01-03T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/03\/chelsea-boost-as-star-defender-pens-new-contract\/"},"modified":"2022-01-03T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:06:04","slug":"chelsea-boost-as-star-defender-pens-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/03\/chelsea-boost-as-star-defender-pens-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea boost as star defender pens new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Premier League giants Chelsea have, on Monday evening, confirmed that a key member of the club\u2019s backline has put pen to paper on a new contract.<\/p>\n<h2>Blues\u2019 concerns<\/h2>\n<p>The situation at the heart of the club\u2019s defence has of course proven a major concern for Chelsea of late.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with no fewer than four of the club\u2019s defenders, until today, having been poised to depart Stamford Bridge upon the expiration of their respective contracts next summer.<\/p>\n<p>The players in question? Antonio Rudiger, Andreas Christensen, Cesar Azpilicueta and Thiago Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Losing one, or potentially several of this quartet would of course mark a hammer blow for Thomas Tuchel and co., who, just last year, confirmed their tag as the continent\u2019s finest courtesy of a triumph over Pep Guardiola\u2019s Manchester City in the Champions League final.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1515055\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1515055\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1515055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233174900-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea win Champions League title\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233174900-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233174900-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233174900-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233174900-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233174900-1-910x607.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1515055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PORTO, PORTUGAL \u2013 MAY 29: Players of Chelsea celebrate with the trophy at the end of the UEFA Champions League final match against Manchester City at Dragao Stadium on May 29, 2021 in Porto, Portugal. Chelsea won the 2021 Champions League title after beating Manchester City 1-0 in the final on Saturday. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein \u2013 UEFA\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Silva staying put<\/h2>\n<p>As alluded to above, though, on Monday evening, at long last, those of a Chelsea persuasion have been afforded some positive news when it comes to the future of the club\u2019s defensive stars.<\/p>\n<p>This comes in the form of confirmation that one such player, in the form of Thiago Silva, has put pen to paper on fresh terms.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran Brazilian, amid another stellar campaign to date, has signed on the dotted line through the summer of 2023, to keep him in west London for the next season-and-a-half:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He\u2019s staying! ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tsilva3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tsilva3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1478056424685113346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/concerning-trevoh-chalobah-injury-update-emerges-ahead-of-chelseas-clash-with-tottenham\/\">Concerning Trevoh Chalobah injury update emerges ahead of Chelsea\u2019s clash with Tottenham<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/thomas-tuchel-on-the-chances-of-romelu-lukaku-returning-to-the-chelsea-fold-vs-tottenham\/\">Thomas Tuchel on the chances of Romelu Lukaku returning to the Chelsea fold vs Tottenham<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Premier League giants Chelsea have, on Monday evening, confirmed that a key member of the club\u2019s backline has put pen to paper on a new contract. Blues\u2019 concerns The situation at the heart of the club\u2019s defence has of course proven a major concern for Chelsea of late. This comes with no fewer than [&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-4620","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\/4620","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=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}