{"id":1215679,"date":"2022-10-03T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/chelsea-beat-man-united-signed-a-pre-contract-with-rb-leipzig-star-christopher-nkunku\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:10:54","slug":"chelsea-beat-man-united-signed-a-pre-contract-with-rb-leipzig-star-christopher-nkunku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/chelsea-beat-man-united-signed-a-pre-contract-with-rb-leipzig-star-christopher-nkunku\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Beat Man United, Signed A Pre-Contract With RB Leipzig Star Christopher Nkunku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/484216dcb372443db6871731a83bea99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Nkunku, a star at RB Leipzig, has reportedly decided to join Chelsea despite interest from Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain, who sold him in 2019, is also rumored to be interested in the dynamic playmaker.<\/p>\n<p>The French forward reportedly signed a pre-contractual agreement with Chelsea after undergoing a secret medical examination with the Blues last month, as reported by Infoexpert24.<\/p>\n<p>While Nkunku is not scheduled to come until next summer, the Blues reportedly have a contract in place for him to join Stamford Bridge, with owner Todd Boehly willing to pay his full \u00a353 million release clause to gain an advantage over their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old scored 35 goals and assisted on 20 more in 52 appearances across all competitions for RB Leipzig during a remarkable season that led to him being voted Bundesliga player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>His performance was rewarded with a new two-year contract extension that will keep him at Leipzig until 2026. However, it contains a \u00a352.8 million release clause, which Chelsea has now exercised.<\/p>\n<p>Should Chelsea accept the agreement for Nkunku, it would continue the club&#8217;s extravagant spending under Boehly, who this year completed a \u00a34.2 billion takeover of the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Citinews_Hub (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\">\nChristopher Nkunku<br \/>\nFrench<br \/>\nInfoexpert24<br \/>\nManchester United<br \/>\nRB Leipzig<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Nkunku, a star at RB Leipzig, has reportedly decided to join Chelsea despite interest from Manchester United. Paris Saint-Germain, who sold him in 2019, is also rumored to be interested in the dynamic playmaker. The French forward reportedly signed a pre-contractual agreement with Chelsea after undergoing a secret medical examination with the Blues last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[193,58,8431,8432,697,8433,26802,4050,209,2822],"class_list":["post-1215679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-beat","tag-chelsea","tag-christopher","tag-leipzig","tag-man","tag-nkunku","tag-precontract","tag-signed","tag-star","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215679","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=1215679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}