{"id":19941,"date":"2026-07-22T07:18:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19941"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:18:04","slug":"chelseas-new-full-back-newcastles-anthony-gordon-replacement-and-10-premier-league-transfers-you-may-have-missed-during-the-world-cup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19941","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s new full-back, Newcastle&#8217;s Anthony Gordon replacement and 10 Premier League transfers you may have missed during the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p><span>In terms of statement, big-name signings, Newcastle&#8217;s transfer window once again hasn&#8217;t exactly gone to plan. The Magpies have been pipped to a number of key targets for the second successive summer after their nightmare in 2025, including Victor Munoz, who joined Liverpool, and the aforementioned Manzambi, who has signed for Aston Villa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Tynesiders have, however, gone about adding a number of highly-rated youngsters to their squad, with the most significant outlay going on <\/span><span>Hoffenheim&#8217;s Ivorian winger Bazoumana Toure<\/span><span>. Newcastle coughed up a massive \u00a343m ($57m) to land the 20-year-old, who racked up 12 assists in Germany last season and formed part of an exciting Ivory Coast squad at the World Cup behind fellow breakout Bundesliga star Yan Diomande.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Toure was swiftly followed into St James&#8217; Park by 18-year-old Ajax midfielder Sean Steur, who cost \u00a323m ($31m) himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of statement, big-name signings, Newcastle&#8217;s transfer window once again hasn&#8217;t exactly gone to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941","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=19941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}