{"id":2209,"date":"2026-04-29T10:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:39:25","slug":"chelsea-could-sell-30m-premier-league-star-after-difficult-first-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea could sell \u00a330m Premier League star after difficult first season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chelsea face big decisions over their strikers this summer. <\/p>\n<p>The Blues currently have Joao Pedro, Liam Delap and Marc Guiu in the squad, while Emmanuel Emegha will arrive from sister club Strasbourg this summer. <\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Jackson is also set to return after his loan at Bayern Munich ends. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Telegraph, Delap is determined to fight for his future at Stamford Bridge. <\/p>\n<p>However, Chelsea could sell the 23-year-old. Delap would not be short of suitors, and the club could sell him at a profit as he arrived for just \u00a330 million. <\/p>\n<p>The young striker has endured a difficult first season. He picked up an injury in August that kept him out for two months. <\/p>\n<p>He has started 11 times in the Premier League and scored just once. Delap still believes he can make his move a success. <\/p>\n<p>He is focused on finishing the campaign as positively as possible and returning to his club in the summer to prepare for next season. <\/p>\n<p>Delap\u2019s future may depend on who Chelsea appoint to replace Liam Rosenior, who was sacked last week. <\/p>\n<p>The Blues are considering Andoni Iraola, Marco Silva and Xabi Alonso to fill the vacancy at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stats from Transfermarkt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea face big decisions over their strikers this summer. The Blues currently have Joao Pedro,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","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\/2209","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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}