{"id":16606,"date":"2026-07-12T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16606"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:12:00","slug":"chelseas-derry-joins-sporting-on-loan-after-signing-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16606","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s Derry joins Sporting on loan after signing new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea forward Jesse Derry has joined Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon on a season-long loan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old England youth international recently signed a new long-term contract at Stamford Bridge, keeping him with the Blues until 2032.<\/p>\n<p>Derry enjoyed a breakthrough campaign last year, making his senior debut as a substitute in an FA Cup victory against Hull City before being handed his first Premier League start against Nottingham Forest aged 18.<\/p>\n<p>However, his senior bow was marred by misfortune as Derry was stretchered off on his debut with a head injury.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager \u2013 son of former QPR midfielder Shaun Derry \u2013 will now continue his development in the Primeira Liga for the duration of the 2026\/27 campaign.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #1b4f9c; color: white; border-radius: 12px; padding: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); flex-wrap: nowrap;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.commentwrap --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/themify_builder_content --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea forward Jesse Derry has joined Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon on a season-long loan. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16606","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\/16606","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=16606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}