{"id":16559,"date":"2026-07-12T00:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16559"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:39:05","slug":"chelsea-make-formal-contact-to-sign-eduardo-camavinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16559","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea make formal contact to sign Eduardo Camavinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-178302 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eduardo-camavinga123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eduardo-camavinga123.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eduardo-camavinga123-750x450.jpg 750w, https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eduardo-camavinga123-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eduardo-camavinga123-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/eduardo-camavinga123-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea have reportedly made formal contact with Real Madrid over a deal to sign Eduardo Camavinga, as per Spanish outlet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Transfers<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After becoming the Blues\u2019 new manager, Xabi Alonso has already signed Marco Palestra from Atalanta. Moreover, Geovany Quenda has joined from Sporting CP, although the deal was finalised last year.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Spanish boss is keen on revamping the midfield department at Stamford Bridge. Following Andrey Santos\u2019 move to Manchester United, the West London club currently have Mois\u00e9s Caicedo, Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez, Romeo Lavia and Dario Essugo as options to deploy in the deeper midfield positions.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lavia and Essugo struggled with fitness problems last campaign, while Fernandes has been linked with a move away, having expressed his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">desire<\/span> to take on a new challenge in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Chelsea <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">attempted<\/span> to sign Granit Xhaka, but Sunderland have managed to persuade him to stay, with his existing deal set to run until 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <em>Transfers<\/em> state that Alonso is prioritising revamping the midfield department at Stamford Bridge by signing Camavinga, and Chelsea have already started formal contact with Real Madrid to seal the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Los Blancos are open to cashing-in on the 23-year-old if they receive a concrete proposal worth around \u20ac80m(\u00a368m), with his existing deal set to run until 2029.<\/p>\n<h2>Camavinga to Chelsea<\/h2>\n<p>The report claim that Chelsea are looking for a player with exceptional dribbling skills, relentless pressing, and outstanding physical presence to upgrade the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>However, Camavinga has no intention of leaving, and the West London club are trying to convince him to join by offering him a leading role in Alonso\u2019s starting line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Camavinga is a technically gifted left-footed defensive midfielder but is also efficient in the box-to-box role. Furthermore, he can provide cover in the left-back position if needed.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman is a top-class talent but has struggled to find regular game time at Real Madrid. As a result, he failed to secure his place in France\u2019s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the Real Madrid star is still very young and could be a shrewd acquisition for Chelsea should they eventually manage to secure his services this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--mvp-post-tags--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--posts-nav-link--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mvp-org-wrap\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-logo\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-logo--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Football Talk | Premier League News\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-wrap-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have reportedly made formal contact with Real Madrid over a deal to sign Eduardo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16559","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\/16559","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=16559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}