{"id":466095,"date":"2011-07-22T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/22\/chelsea-close-in-on-barcelona%e2%80%99s-oriol-romeu-report\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T11:02:00","slug":"chelsea-close-in-on-barcelonas-oriol-romeu-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/22\/chelsea-close-in-on-barcelonas-oriol-romeu-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea close in on Barcelona\u2019s Oriol Romeu &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"57.821587868\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2559\/rumours\/archive\/1\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> are set to swoop for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/125\/barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a> starlet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/34623\/oriol-romeu-vidal\">Oriol Romeu<\/a>, according to <em>The Independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span>The 19-year-old defensive midfielder can also play as a central defender, and is one of two youngsters at Camp Nou targeted by Andre Villas-Boas, the other being Thiago Alcantara, who signed a contract extension earlier this summer that will keep him at the club until 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Romeu, who Barcelona are prepared to sell for \u20ac5 million (\u00a34.35m), was given his debut at the start of last season before returning to the Barcelona B side, where he remained a permanent fixture throughout last year\u2019s campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Spain under-20 international recovered from a knee ligament injury earlier this year that kept him out of action for four months towards the end of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/22\/2585825\/chelsea-close-in-on-barcelonas-oriol-romeu-report\" title=\"Chelsea close in on Barcelona\u2019s Oriol Romeu - report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea close in on Barcelona\u2019s Oriol Romeu &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here . Chelsea are set to swoop for Barcelona starlet Oriol Romeu , according to The Independent . The 19-year-old defensive midfielder can also play as a central defender, and is one of two youngsters at Camp Nou targeted by Andre Villas-Boas, the other being Thiago Alcantara, who signed a contract extension earlier this summer that will keep him at the club until 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chelsea close in on Barcelona\u2019s Oriol Romeu - report - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/22\/chelsea-close-in-on-barcelonas-oriol-romeu-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chelsea close in on Barcelona\u2019s Oriol Romeu - report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here . 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