{"id":455177,"date":"2023-08-14T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455177"},"modified":"2023-08-14T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:18:47","slug":"romeo-lavia-snubs-liverpool-for-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/romeo-lavia-snubs-liverpool-for-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo Lavia snubs Liverpool for Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romeo Lavia has reportedly declined Liverpool&#8217;s offer in order to join Chelsea in what is a second major blow for Jurgen Klopp team after the Blues managed to acquire Moises Caicedo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rom\u00e9o Lavia decides to join Chelsea as next club and step for his career. It has been communicated to Southampton \u2014 ready to close deal between clubs \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are prepared to pay \u00a350m fixed fee plus add-ons, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@David_Ornstein<\/a> reported.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFC<\/a> want it done by Tuesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w4kvQRWBOF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/w4kvQRWBOF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1691122429480046592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Belgian has been a top priority target for both clubs and it seemed the youngster was heading to Anfield after Liverpool were the first to agree terms with Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>However, in an incredible U-turn the 19-year-old seems to have rejected the Reds in favor of joining Stamford Bridge in a deal, that is estimated to be worth around \u00a350m.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool even made a bid of \u00a360m, which is \u00a310m more than the prize, required by Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>Lavia is set to make a swift return to the Premier League from the Championship as the deal is expected to go through easily, given the good relationship between the two clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romeo Lavia has reportedly declined Liverpool&#8217;s offer in order to join Chelsea in what is a second major blow for Jurgen Klopp team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":455179,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,16722,20722,17454],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,17887,20723,18674],"acf":{"announce":"The Reds sensationally dealt a second transfer blow from the Blues in a matter of days","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\/455177"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455177"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455177"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}