{"id":455416,"date":"2023-08-18T13:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T09:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455416"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T09:26:51","slug":"official-chelsea-signs-romeo-lavia-for-74-million","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/official-chelsea-signs-romeo-lavia-for-74-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Chelsea signs Romeo Lavia for $74 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea announced their eight summer signing &#8211; Romeo Lavia from Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues will pay $74 million for the 19-year old defensive midfielder. He comes at Stamford Bridge to be a competition to their other big summer signing &#8211; Moises Caicedo, who was bought from Brighton for $146 million.<\/p>\n<p>With Lavia&#8217;s deal Chelsea have now spent over $434 million this summer, after bringing in Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia, Christopher Nkunku, Axel Disasi, Nicolas Jackson, Lesley Ugochukwu, Robert Sanchez and Angelo Gabriel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Introducing a new Blue! \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vdHynMOMti\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vdHynMOMti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1692461454950383952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With their new signing, Chelsea&#8217; s midfield depth is looking the strongest in the Premier League, having Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo, Lesley Ugochukwu, Lavia, Andrey Santos, Conor Gallagher and Carney Chukwuemeka at their disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea announced their eight summer signing &#8211; Romeo Lavia from Southampton. The Blues will pay $74 million for the 19-year old defensive midfielder. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":455417,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,20722],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17902,20723],"acf":{"announce":"The London side has now spent over $434 million this summer","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\/455416"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455416"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455416"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}