{"id":18285,"date":"2026-07-17T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18285"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:23:20","slug":"who-should-chelsea-sign-we-take-a-look-at-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18285","title":{"rendered":"Who Should Chelsea Sign? We Take A Look At The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<p><strong>With Rayo Vallecano reportedly sticking to their \u20ac50m (\u00a342.5m) valuation of Pep Chavarria, Chelsea have a decision to make.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of Xabi Alonso\u2019s former players, Real Madrid\u2019s Alvaro Carreras, has also been <strong>linked<\/strong> with a switch to Stamford Bridge, and he could cost a similar amount.<\/p>\n<p>So, should the Blues pivot away from Chavarria and pursue Carreras instead?<\/p>\n<p>Press the next page as we compare the two players based on their league stats from last season.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Rayo Vallecano reportedly sticking to their \u20ac50m (\u00a342.5m) valuation of Pep Chavarria, Chelsea have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18285","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\/18285","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=18285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}