{"id":22784,"date":"2022-08-31T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=22784"},"modified":"2022-08-31T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:35:33","slug":"chelsea-signed-21-year-old-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/chelsea-signed-21-year-old-defender\/premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Signed 21 Year Old Defender!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chelsea have been having a lot of defensive errors over the past few weeks in the Premier League. After only winning 2 out of 4 games and almost letting in a goal in each game, there was a massive mistake at the back that Chelsea needed to fill. This is where the new 21 year old defender comes into play! Signing for the club for \u00a370 million.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fofana has recently joined the club after completing the move from Leicester City. This is a great signing for the English club and could be the solution they needed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22785\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22785\" class=\"wp-image-22785 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1871306329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1871306329.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1871306329-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1871306329-128x85.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1871306329-32x21.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_1871306329-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a class=\"jss5075 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/vitalii-vitleo\">Vitalii Vitleo<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The centre back has made 37 appearances since being in the Premier League and has established himself as a great defender in the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The two last days have been really big for me and I&#8217;m very happy, I \u00a0trained this morning with the team and it&#8217;s a dream for me. I&#8217;m very excited to start playing games for the fans and the club. I&#8217;m here to win trophies &#8211; the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup, everything. I came here to win and the club is built to win trophies so I&#8217;m here to continue that.&#8221; he said during an interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fofona was apart of the starting XI that won the FA Cup for the first time against Chelsea in the 2021 final!<\/p>\n<p>Will this be a great signing for them?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss10260 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/charnsitr\">charnsitr<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have been having a lot of defensive errors over the past few weeks in the Premier League. After only winning 2 out of 4 games and almost letting in a goal in each game, there was a massive mistake at the back that Chelsea needed to fill. This is where the new 21 year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":22786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[909,2356,885],"class_list":["post-22784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","tag-football-news","tag-pl-news","tag-transfer-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22787,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions\/22787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}