{"id":20733,"date":"2026-07-24T00:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=20733"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:12:06","slug":"chelsea-hand-morgan-rogers-shirt-worn-by-eden-hazard-read-chelsea-f-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=20733","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea hand Morgan Rogers shirt worn by Eden Hazard &#8211; Read Chelsea F.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chelsea have confirmed that Morgan Rogers will wear the No.17 shirt following his \u00a3117million arrival from Aston Villa. The England international has taken the same number he wore during this summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club announced Rogers\u2019 squad number as he prepares to join Xabi Alonso\u2019s first-team group. He signed a seven-year contract until 2033 after Chelsea won the race for one of the Premier League\u2019s leading young attackers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chelsea\u2019s official announcement also highlighted several notable former owners of the shirt. Eden Hazard initially wore No.17 at Stamford Bridge before switching to No.10, while Pedro and Mateo Kovacic later took the number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rogers wore No.27 at Aston Villa but used No.17 while representing England at the World Cup. He helped Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side finish third before completing his British-record move to west London.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Morgan Rogers will wear the No.17 shirt for the Blues! \ud83d\udd35<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) July 22, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Morgan Rogers could make Chelsea debut in Australia<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rogers could make his first Chelsea appearance when Alonso\u2019s side face Western Sydney Wanderers on Tuesday, 28 July. The Blues then play Tottenham in Sydney before travelling to Hong Kong for a friendly against Juventus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His involvement may depend on how Alonso manages his workload following the World Cup. Rogers only recently returned from international duty and may require additional recovery time before featuring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ReadChelsea covered Chelsea\u2019s official \u00a3117million announcement after the attacker chose Stamford Bridge ahead of Arsenal. Alonso\u2019s plan to use him from the left reportedly played an important role in that decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rogers can also play centrally or behind the striker. However, his initial role should allow Cole Palmer to continue operating as Chelsea\u2019s main central creator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The No.17 shirt comes with notable Chelsea history. Rogers will now look to create his own after becoming Alonso\u2019s most expensive summer signing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have confirmed that Morgan Rogers will wear the No.17 shirt following his \u00a3117million arrival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20733","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\/20733","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=20733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}