{"id":9816,"date":"2026-05-17T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:49:49","slug":"morgan-rogers-transfer-news-chelsea-showing-interest-in-aston-villa-star-paper-talk-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9816","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Rogers transfer news: Chelsea showing interest in Aston Villa star &#8211; Paper Talk | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday&#8217;s newspapers&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>PREMIER LEAGUE<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Chelsea <\/strong>have an interest in <strong>Aston Villa<\/strong> star <strong>Morgan Rogers<\/strong> &#8211; <em>TalkSport<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea <\/strong>want a new goalkeeper this summer and are seriously considering a move for Sunderland&#8217;s <strong>Robin Roefs<\/strong> &#8211; Daily Mirror<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brentford<\/strong> have joined <strong>Brighton<\/strong> and <strong>Chelsea <\/strong>in showing an interest in Cologne&#8217;s 19-year-old German winger <strong>Said El Mala<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barcelona<\/strong> are reluctant to pay the 30m euros to turn Man Utd forward Marcus Rashford&#8217;s loan move into a permanent deal and they are aware Aston Villa are keen on the England international &#8211; <em>Sports World<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-custom-markup \" data-component-name=\"ui-article-custom-markup\" data-consent=\"pending\" data-vendor-name=\"captivate\" data-testid=\"article-custom-markup\">\n<section aria-label=\"Consent required\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock\" data-component-name=\"ui-consent-roadblock\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" style=\"--width: 7; --height:4;\">\n<div class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body\">\n        <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__title\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-title\">Captivate<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__description\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-description\"><\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__vendor-title\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-vendor-name-in-description\">Captivate<\/span>which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__vendor-title\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-vendor-name-in-description\">Captivate<\/span> cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the Privacy Options.<br \/>\n            <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__description\" data-show-on-fallback=\"true\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-description\"><\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__vendor-title\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-vendor-name-in-description\">Captivate<\/span> cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow <span class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__vendor-title\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-vendor-name-in-description\">Captivate<\/span> cookies for this session only.<br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link-group\">\n<p>                Enable Cookies<br \/>\n                Allow Cookies Once\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<h3>SCOTTISH FOOTBALL<\/h3>\n<p>The SPFL are set to seek talks with the Scottish Government over new measures to tackle pitch invasions and tailgating at football games &#8211; <em>The Herald<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Labour Lord has &#8220;escalated&#8221; his complaint involving Celtic to FIFA, following Neil Doncaster&#8217;s response to his claims of Celtic&#8217;s win being &#8220;predetermined&#8221; &#8211; <em>The Herald<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>WORLD CUP<\/h3>\n<p>A key figure within FIFA, <strong>Mattias Grafstrom<\/strong>has held constructive talks with Iran&#8217;s FA President <strong>Mehdi Taj<\/strong> and is confident they will appear at the World Cup. &#8211; <em>The Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>RUGBY UNION<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Borthwick is considering resting Maro Itoje, the England captain, for the Nations Championship this summer &#8211; <em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>MOTORSPORT<\/h3>\n<p>The Bahrain GP could return in October as F1 are considering a calendar reshuffle &#8211; <em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Marquez<\/strong>the brother of seven-time MotoGP champion Marc, suffered a broken neck after a horrifying crash during a chaotic Barcelona Grand Prix &#8211; <em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-factbox\" data-testid=\"article-factbox\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text-wrapper\">\n<p><h4 class=\"sdc-article-factbox__title\" data-testid=\"article-factbox-title\">Watch Back Pages on Sky Sports News<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\" data-testid=\"article-factbox-text\">Back Pages is a review of the sports headlines from the national newspapers, every Monday to Friday, live on Sky Sports News from 10.30pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>Missed the show? Catch up on the latest news with the Back Pages podcast. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday&#8217;s newspapers&#8230; PREMIER LEAGUE Chelsea have an interest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9816","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\/9816","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=9816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}