{"id":1160526,"date":"2022-07-27T21:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/chelsea-interested-in-signing-top-leicester-city-defender-reports\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T21:36:07","slug":"chelsea-interested-in-signing-top-leicester-city-defender-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/chelsea-interested-in-signing-top-leicester-city-defender-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Interested In Signing Top Leicester City Defender- Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Chelsea are now considering making a move for Leicester City top defender after missing out on Joules Kounde and likely to also miss out on Kinpembe after Paris Saint Germain raised his price. Chelsea Football Club are really desperate in bringing in a new defender after losing both Christensen and Antonio Rudiger at the back to Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively. Although Chelsea has signed Koulibaly from Napoli but Thomas Tuchel wants to bring in another defender.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e31eb307ef094168848373919e508663\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are now considering making a move for Leicester City centre-back Wesley Fofana, football.london understands, with contact to the defender&#8217;s entourage expected to be made this week. The Foxes defender recently signed an extension at the King Power Stadium \u2013 with his contract now due to expire in the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/765a2fc8e894431ab6ceaee05befe6bf\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Although he has about 5 years more to play for the foxes, Chelsea believes they can get his signature. Todd Boehly and Thomas Tuchel are reportedly showing great interest in the defender. Chelsea are trying every possible way to bring in new players to spice up the current team for the upcoming season ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Whistler (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nChelsea Football Club<br \/>\nKing Power Stadium<br \/>\nNapoli<br \/>\nThomas<br \/>\nThomas Tuchel<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are now considering making a move for Leicester City top defender after missing out on Joules Kounde and likely to also miss out on Kinpembe after Paris Saint Germain raised his price. Chelsea Football Club are really desperate in bringing in a new defender after losing both Christensen and Antonio Rudiger at the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[58,1761,397,3288,6148,5182,3290,121],"class_list":["post-1160526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-chelsea","tag-city","tag-defender","tag-interested","tag-leicester","tag-reports","tag-signing","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}