{"id":23138,"date":"2026-08-11T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=23138"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:31:15","slug":"keep-loan-or-sell-enzo-fernandez-nicolas-jackson-the-chelsea-players-whose-futures-xabi-alonso-must-resolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=23138","title":{"rendered":"Keep, loan or sell? Enzo Fernandez, Nicolas Jackson &#038; the Chelsea players whose futures Xabi Alonso must resolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"section body\">\n<div>\n<p><span>With just three weeks of the transfer window remaining, Chelsea have plenty of work to do. A flurry of incomings means an already bloated squad has swelled to a massive <\/span><i><em>41 senior players<\/em><\/i><span>, and now their focus must shift to outgoings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There are certain fringe figures whose departures are a foregone conclusion; Axel Disasi, Benoit Badiashile and Marc Guiu are all nailed-on to leave having been omitted from the Blues&#8217; squad for the pre-season tour to Australia and south-east Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, the west Londoners still need to get several others out the door because a so-called &#8216;bomb squad&#8217; of unwanted stars &#8211; something the club has leaned on heavily in recent years &#8211; is no longer an option after a FIFA rule change. They must also be conscious of the limited number of players they can send out on loan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There is uncertainty surrounding plenty of big names who have not been deemed &#8216;untouchable&#8217;, but how should Chelsea handle their respective futures?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just three weeks of the transfer window remaining, Chelsea have plenty of work to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138","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=23138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}