{"id":438186,"date":"2023-06-20T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438186"},"modified":"2023-06-20T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:58:21","slug":"nkunku-is-officially-a-chelsea-player","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nkunku-is-officially-a-chelsea-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkunku is officially a Chelsea player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blues completed the signing of Christopher Nkunku as he will join Chelsea from the German RB Leipzig, the team shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Chelsea have officially confirmed the signing of Christopher Nkunku from RB Leipzig on a six-year contract! \ud83d\udcdd\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JzPXVSOAW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9JzPXVSOAW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1671088061747195906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The French inked a 6-year contract with the London team after spending 4 seasons in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m honored to become a Chelsea player,&#8221; the France international shared on the club&#8217;s site. &#8220;They did everything possible for me to be able to play at Stamford Bridge, and I can&#8217;t wait to join the training session as soon as possible and be with my teammates and manager. I&#8217;m also looking forward to the start of the new season to show the fans how I can play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Christopher Nkunku&#8217;s RB Leipzig career by numbers:<\/p>\n<p>\u25c9 172 games<br \/>\n\u25c9 70 goals<br \/>\n\u25c9 45 assists<br \/>\n\u25c9 2 trophies<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s a Blue. \ud83c\udf88 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O45ryK7Q5Q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/O45ryK7Q5Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1671089744422264833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blues completed the signing of Christopher Nkunku as he will join Chelsea from the German RB Leipzig, the team shared today. BREAKING: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438187,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,19983,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,19984,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The London club finalized the deal.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438186"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438186"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}