{"id":22224,"date":"2026-07-28T04:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=22224"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:37:09","slug":"chelsea-interested-in-signing-henderson-from-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=22224","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea interested in signing Henderson from Brentford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea have expressed an interest in signing Jordan Henderson from Brentford.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former Liverpool midfielder, 36, was signed on a free transfer 12 months ago after leaving Ajax.<\/p>\n<p>He impressed last season and Chelsea believe his experience could be a useful option for them.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are also<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>  keen to snap up Brighton\u2019s veteran striker Danny Welbeck.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Henderson has a year remaining on his contract but Brentford seem willing to let him leave on a free transfer this summer.<\/p>\n<p>He made 32 Premier League appearances for the Bees last season and was part of England\u2019s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>He made one appearance at the tournament, as a substitute, before<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>  breaking his arm<\/strong><\/span>  falling over advertising hoardings while celebrating their last-16 win over Mexico.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #1b4f9c; color: white; border-radius: 12px; padding: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); flex-wrap: nowrap;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.commentwrap --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/themify_builder_content --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have expressed an interest in signing Jordan Henderson from Brentford. The former Liverpool midfielder,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22224","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\/22224","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=22224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}