{"id":615472,"date":"2022-07-31T05:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T09:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615472"},"modified":"2022-07-31T05:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T09:50:43","slug":"chelsea-real-madrid-gabriel-slonina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/31\/chelsea-real-madrid-gabriel-slonina\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Here We Go!&#8217; &#8211; Fabrizio Romano Reveals &#8216;Unbelievable&#8217; Player Is Coming to London to Complete Chelsea Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1553517047199457291\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/28\/thomas-tuchel-cesar-azpilicueta-barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> have reached an agreement with Chicago Fire for goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina, with the fee reported to be \u00a312.3 million, with add-ons included. The American U20 international and his agent are due to fly to London imminently to complete his medical and sign his contract, with the young goalkeeper staying in the MLS for the rest of their season and joining up with the West London club on January 1st.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Gabriel Slonina: Chelsea Win the Race for Promising Young Goalkeeper<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excl: Gaga Slonina to Chelsea, here we go! Agreement with Chicago Fire for $15m, add-ons included. Talented GK and his agent will fly to London on Sunday to complete medical and sign. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slonina will finish the season with Chicago before joining Chelsea on January 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g2l4Ksbsoj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/g2l4Ksbsoj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1553517047199457291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Gabriel Slonina Picks Chelsea as His Next Destination.<\/h3>\n<p>Slonina at 18 years old, has become the youngest starting goalkeeper in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/26\/gareth-bale-signs-for-lafc\/\" target=\"_self\">MLS<\/a> history, which has seen him make 34 starts since his debut on Aug. 4 2021. The American has excelled this season, which has resulted in attracting interest from a number of clubs including <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3463536\/2022\/07\/30\/chicago-fire-gabriel-slonina-chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Madrid<\/a>, but Chelsea have been relentless in their pursuit of the youngster.<\/p>\n<p>The Stamford Bridge hierarchy\u00a0had been in negotiations for Slonina for several months before <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/25\/uk-government-todd-boehly-chelsea-takeover\/\" target=\"_self\">Clearlake<\/a> completed their takeover of the club, with the sale of the team understandably pausing negotiations between the two clubs, and despite interest from Real Madrid, Chelsea were always firm favourites to win the race for the American.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/30\/chelsea-goalkeeper-napoli-interest\/\" target=\"_self\">Napoli Show Interest in Chelsea Goalkeeper<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Future for Slonina<\/h3>\n<p>Kepa Arrizabalaga has been linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge, with the Spaniard becoming a target for Serie A side <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/02\/napoli-season-review\/\" target=\"_self\">Napoli<\/a>. The form of Edouard Mendy was called into question at various points last season which has led to Chelsea identifying Slonina as a long-term solution to their goalkeeping woes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Chelsea Gabriel Slonina <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39Home of champions <br \/>\ud83d\udd39The best club in London and the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mm04uHRWMY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Mm04uHRWMY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; badboy (@badboy_jeremy1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/badboy_jeremy1\/status\/1553627899449729025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsbank.net\/football\/chelsea\/gaga-slonina-chicago-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;unbelievable&#8221;<\/a> talent will follow in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/31\/european-players-to-watch-2022-23\/\" target=\"_self\">Ricardo Pepi<\/a> and Kevin Paredes in moving to Europe from the MLS in the last year. Slonina showed his outstanding ability when breaking into the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/15\/gabriel-slonina-personal-terms-chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago Fire<\/a> first team where he kept an exceptional ten clean sheets in his first 23 matches this season. His excellent form saw him called up to the US Men\u2019s National Team, and despite not earning his first cap the young goalkeeper is\u00a0determined to make the squad for the World Cup in Qatar, fighting off the fierce competition from rivals such as Matt Turner and Ethan Horvath.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/every-premier-league-transfer-completed-in-summer-2022\/\" target=\"_self\">Every Premier League Transfer Completed in Summer 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0Fabrizio Romano, Chelsea have reached an agreement with Chicago Fire for goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina, with the fee reported to be \u00a312.3 million, with add-ons included. The American U20 international and his agent are due to fly to London imminently to complete his medical and sign his contract, with the young goalkeeper staying in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":615483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,3,1366,7188,2204],"tags":[8611,9225,9355],"class_list":["post-615472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","category-real-madrid","category-rumours","category-usmnt","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-gabriel-slonina","tag-real-madrid-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}