{"id":16626,"date":"2026-07-12T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16626"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:45:08","slug":"summer-transfers-2026-all-chelsea-ins-outs-and-new-contracts-read-chelsea-f-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16626","title":{"rendered":"Summer transfers 2026: All Chelsea ins, outs and new contracts &#8211; Read Chelsea F.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chelsea have confirmed their summer transfer business so far, with Marco Palestra and Geovany Quenda listed as the club\u2019s two senior arrivals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club\u2019s official transfer tracker names Palestra as Chelsea\u2019s first signing of the summer after his permanent move from Atalanta. The Italian has signed a contract through to 2033.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quenda\u2019s move from Sporting has also formally gone through after first being agreed in March 2025. The Portuguese winger has signed until 2034, adding another long-term attacking piece for Xabi Alonso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chelsea have also confirmed new deals for Jesse Derry, Charlie Holland, Justin Osagie and Dante Waite. Derry has since joined Sporting on loan for the 2026\/27 season, while Harrison Murray-Campbell will spend the campaign with Belgian side KV Kortrijk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ReadChelsea recently looked at Quenda\u2019s long route to Chelsea and his hidden Cobham visits, with the 19-year-old now officially part of Alonso\u2019s squad picture.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u203c\ufe0f Chelsea are also working on the departures of Gaga Slonina (sale), David Datro Fofana (sale), Kendry Paez (loan), Deivid Washington (loan), Caleb Wiley (loan) and Shumaira Mheuka (loan).<\/p>\n<p>~ @TheAthleticFC<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vince\u2122 (@Blue_Footy) July 7, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chelsea Exits Show Scale Of Alonso Reset<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The departures list carries more senior weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marc Cucurella has left for Real Madrid after four years at Stamford Bridge, while Tyrique George\u2019s move to Everton has also become permanent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Academy exits include Brodi Hughes, Jimmy-Jay Morgan, Richard Olise, Sam Rak-Sakyi, Jimi Tauriainen and Joseph Wheeler-Henry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list shows Chelsea are moving on two fronts. Alonso has fresh senior talent arriving, but the club are also clearing academy pathways and making firm decisions on players needing regular football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Palestra and Quenda will draw most attention because of their contract lengths and first-team potential. The wider picture, though, points to another busy Chelsea summer shaped by youth, sales and long-term squad control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have confirmed their summer transfer business so far, with Marco Palestra and Geovany Quenda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16626","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\/16626","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=16626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}