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Chelsea midfielder Julia Bartel is closing in on a summer move to Juventus after struggling to secure a regular first-team role.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Spain youth international joined Chelsea from Barcelona in 2024 on a deal until 2027. She arrived with a strong reputation after developing in one of Europe\u2019s best academy systems.<\/p>\n Bartel made only two Chelsea appearances before joining Atletico Madrid on loan, with both outings coming in the Women\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old had also spent the second half of the 2024\/25 campaign on loan at Liverpool. Her move to Atletico then gave her a more regular platform in Spain.<\/p>\n Bartel made 43 appearances during her spell in Madrid and scored six goals. She also started 15 Liga F matches.<\/p>\n Juventus are expected to finalise a deal in the coming days as they reshape their midfield.<\/p>\n The Italian club need a replacement after Lia Walti joined Brighton earlier this month. Bartel would give them a young technical option with Champions League and Liga F experience.<\/p>\n For Chelsea, the likely exit reflects the depth of the current squad. Sonia Bompastor has a strong midfield group, and Bartel\u2019s route to regular minutes has remained narrow.<\/p>\n ReadChelsea recently covered another development decision at Cobham after Dante Waite signed his first professional contract. Bartel\u2019s situation sits at the other end of the pathway, with a permanent move now looking more useful than another loan.<\/p>\n Chelsea signed Bartel as a high-upside midfielder. Juventus now look set to offer the minutes and status she could not secure in west London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea midfielder Julia Bartel is closing in on a summer move to Juventus after struggling…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Juventus Move Offers Clearer Route<\/h2>\n