{"id":1199590,"date":"2022-09-06T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/edouard-mendy-rejects-chelseas-opening-offer-of-a-new-contract\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:38:09","slug":"edouard-mendy-rejects-chelseas-opening-offer-of-a-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/edouard-mendy-rejects-chelseas-opening-offer-of-a-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Edouard Mendy &#8216;Rejects Chelsea&#8217;s Opening Offer of a New Contract&#8217; |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Edouard Mendy\u00a0has knocked back\u00a0Chelsea&#8217;s opening offer of a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese goalkeeper is one of the lowest-paid players in the Blues squad but rejected the first proposal because the terms were inferior to his understudy Kepa Arrizabalaga, who is on \u00a3190,000 a week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0Evening Standard, the club are keen to tie the stopper down to fresh terms despite recent mistakes against\u00a0Leeds\u00a0and\u00a0West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, homegrown defender Reece James committed to the club long-term, signing a bumper new six-year deal worth \u00a3250,000 a week and making him the highest-paid defender in Chelsea history.<\/p>\n<p>The west London side are also said to be opening contract talks with fellow academy star, midfielder Mason Mount, too as new owner Todd Boehly looks to secure the club&#8217;s top talent for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_home_topstory\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(17, 97, 142); font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\nRead Full Story &#8230;.<br \/>\nDailymail.co.uk >>><br \/>\n<\/span> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Dailymail.co.uk<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edouard Mendy\u00a0has knocked back\u00a0Chelsea&#8217;s opening offer of a new contract. The Senegalese goalkeeper is one of the lowest-paid players in the Blues squad but rejected the first proposal because the terms were inferior to his understudy Kepa Arrizabalaga, who is on \u00a3190,000 a week. According to the\u00a0Evening Standard, the club are keen to tie the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6218,338,25310,2139,6219,997,4105],"class_list":["post-1199590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelseas","tag-contract","tag-edouard","tag-mendy","tag-offer","tag-opening","tag-rejects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199590","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=1199590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}