{"id":20709,"date":"2026-07-23T23:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=20709"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:19:01","slug":"chelsea-set-to-announce-barco-signing-imminently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=20709","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea set to announce Barco signing imminently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Chelsea are due to announce the signing of Valentin Barco from Strasbourg imminently.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea agreed a deal to sign the 22-year-old earlier this year with the versatile Argentina international due to be unveiled as a new signing shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Barco joined BlueCo owned Strasbourg from Brighton in 2025 and has impressed in Ligue 1. Having struggled to make an impact with Brighton, where he made only six Premier League appearances, Barco emerged as one of French football\u2019s best prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Argentine led all Ligue 1 midfielders for through passes, passes into the penalty box, and ranked fifth for forward passes and crosses. Barco can also operate at left-back or on the left side of midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano has reported that all documents have been signed for the player\u2019s move to Chelsea, with head coach Xabi Alonso ready to welcome Barco into his plans.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder was part of the Argentina squad that finished runners-up at this summer\u2019s World Cup and was involved in an altercation with Jude Bellingham, following the semi-final win over England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Ranking the ex-Man City academy players that Chelsea have signed after Rogers deal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Chelsea see \u00a364m bid for Alex Scott rejected by Bournemouth<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are due to announce the signing of Valentin Barco from Strasbourg imminently. Chelsea agreed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20709","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\/20709","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=20709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}