{"id":16014,"date":"2026-07-10T08:50:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16014"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:50:54","slug":"romano-reveals-chelsea-are-ready-to-send-a-new-official-bid-as-blues-look-to-secure-6th-summer-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16014","title":{"rendered":"Romano Reveals Chelsea Are &#8220;Ready To Send A New Official Bid&#8221; As Blues Look To Secure 6th Summer Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Chelsea are set to table a fresh offer for Rayo Vallecano left-back Pep Chavarria, according to journalist Fabrizio Romano.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his YouTube channel, Romano said that the 28-year-old could well be the Blues\u2019 next addition during the summer transfer window:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPep Chavarria is ready to go to Chelsea, has an agreement on personal terms \u2013 the left-back from Rayo Vallecano \u2013 and Chelsea, from what I understand, are ready to send a new official bid in the next days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, Chelsea will return to the table with a new proposal for Chavarria and could be the next signing for Chelsea, in terms of full-backs after Marco Palestra on the right.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea have faced resistance from Chavarria\u2019s club<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Reports<\/strong> in Spain have claimed that Rayo Vallecano president Martin Presa threatened to contact FIFA as he was unhappy with the way the London club have gone about their pursuit of the defender.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>An opening bid for Chavarria is believed to have been rejected, but it appears Xabi Alonso\u2019s side are now confident they will get their man with a follow-up proposal, despite the difficulties they have faced in talks.<\/p>\n<h2>Chavarria would be the club\u2019s 6th summer signing<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"a61405551f80e72f675225f083759bb9\" v=\"f216f6d5d0b6ef819f6e02bf8357cefd\" image-id=\"fwuQHs7dAXjd\" theme=\"iy-theme\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; aspect-ratio: 1.5006765899864682; max-width: 2218px;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>The Blues agreed deals for Strasbourg\u2019s Emmanuel Emegha, Sporting Lisbon\u2019s Geovany Quenda, Corinthians\u2019 Denner and Kairat Almaty\u2019s Dastan Satpaev before the start of the transfer window, but they only officially made the switch to Stamford Bridge this month.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, Marco Palestra is the only one of the five that Alonso has had a hand in recruiting. Chavaria would be the Spaniard\u2019s second addition, but the club\u2019s sixth overall this summer.<\/p>\n<p>He is likely to be a backup option at left wingback, with Quenda more than likely going to be handed the starting berth, but we shall have to wait and see how Alonso sets up his team in pre-season.<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are set to table a fresh offer for Rayo Vallecano left-back Pep Chavarria, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16014","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\/16014","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=16014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}