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Chelsea have officially announced the signing of Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa for a club-record \u00a3117million.<\/strong><\/p>\n The England international has signed a seven-year contract which will keep him at Stamford Bridge until 2033. Rogers becomes Xabi Alonso\u2019s fourth summer addition after Marco Palestra, Emmanuel Emegha and Geovany Quenda.<\/p>\n In their official announcement, Chelsea confirmed the arrival of one of the Premier League\u2019s leading young attackers.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, Chelsea are the biggest club in London and a club I\u2019ve always admired since I was a kid,\u201d Rogers said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really excited about the project with the new manager, the players we\u2019ve got and where the club is heading.\u201d<\/p>\n Arsenal had also held talks over signing Rogers and initially appeared well placed to complete a deal. However, Chelsea moved quickly after identifying him as one of Alonso\u2019s priority targets.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old later confirmed that Alonso\u2019s ideas played a major part in his decision. The pair held several conversations about Chelsea\u2019s playing style and the freedom Rogers would receive within the new system.<\/p>\n ReadChelsea previously examined how Alonso could use Rogers alongside Cole Palmer. The England forward is expected to begin from the left, allowing Palmer to retain his preferred central role.<\/p>\n Rogers contributed 40 Premier League goals and assists during his Villa career. He also helped Unai Emery\u2019s side finish in the top four and win the Europa League last season.<\/p>\n Chelsea have now completed one of the most significant transfers of the BlueCo era. Alonso convinced an established England international to reject Arsenal and join his rebuild at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea have officially announced the signing of Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa for a club-record…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20270","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\/20270","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=20270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Xabi Alonso convinced Rogers to join Chelsea<\/h2>\n