Chelsea have completed the club-record \u00a3117m signing of England attacker Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa.<\/strong><\/p>\n The 23-year-old has signed a six-year contract at Stamford Bridge, which includes an option for a further year.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m joining the biggest club in London,\u201d he said in his announcement video.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way the club wants to go and how it wants to move forward is something I want to be a part of. I think it was just perfect for me. I just can\u2019t wait to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n The transfer makes Rogers the most expensive signing in Chelsea\u2019s history, eclipsing the \u00a3107m paid for Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez in 2023.<\/p>\n It also represents a new transfer record for an English player, surpassing the \u00a3116m fee Manchester City agreed with Nottingham Forest for midfielder Elliot Anderson earlier this summer.<\/p>\n The move provides a significant addition to the squad for new Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso as he shapes his team ahead of the upcoming Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n Rogers scored 21 goals in 85 league appearances during his time at Villa and is regarded as one of England\u2019s standout emerging players.<\/p>\n Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea have completed the club-record \u00a3117m signing of England attacker Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20669","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\/20669","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=20669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WhatsApp\"\/](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\")
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