{"id":456026,"date":"2023-08-22T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456026"},"modified":"2023-08-22T13:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:30:47","slug":"chelsea-to-ink-mls-goalkeeper-petrovic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chelsea-to-ink-mls-goalkeeper-petrovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea to ink MLS goalkeeper Petrovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are very close to ink New England Revolution goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic for 18 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian goalkeeper is expected to fly to London for medical tests before the deal for 16 million dollars + 2 million dollars in add-ons is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>The London side expect the new goalkeeper to compete with Robert S\u00e1nchez for the place in the starting eleven after Kepa Arrizabalaga left to join Real Madrid on a season-long loan and Edouard Mendy was sold to the Saudi Arabian team Al Ahli.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8Chelsea will pay \u00a312.5million plus \u00a31.5m in add-ons after agreeing a fee with New England Revolution for goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic. \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HIfi5TKe30\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/HIfi5TKe30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nizaar Kinsella (@NizaarKinsella) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NizaarKinsella\/status\/1693872351115399647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djordje played 43 matches for New England as he replaced \u00a0Matt Turner, who was sold to Arsenal last year before joining \u00a0Nottingham Forest at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer of the Serbian goalkeeper will bring the Blues&#8217; spending to around 434 million dollars \u2013 already a record in a summer transfer window by any team in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are very close to ink New England Revolution goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic for 18 million dollars. The Serbian goalkeeper is expected to fly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456027,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,17751,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17902,21049,18193,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Blues are set to sign the goalkeeper.","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\/456026"}],"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=456026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456026"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456026"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}