{"id":621583,"date":"2023-01-28T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=621583"},"modified":"2023-01-28T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T20:11:36","slug":"lyon-malo-gusto-completes-chelsea-medical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/28\/lyon-malo-gusto-completes-chelsea-medical\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Completed: Fabrizio Romano Issues Exciting Chelsea Transfer Update for \u00a36,900-Per-Week Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have been working on the signing of Lyon right-back Malo Gusto for the majority of the transfer window, and the Blues have moved one step closer to securing the Frenchman&#8217;s signature.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer Guru Fabrizio Romano <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1619403779874656257\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> that: &#8220;Malo Gusto has completed medical tests as new Chelsea player, after landing in London early morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Romano also confirmed that Chelsea will pay close to \u00a326 million for the 19-year-old, with the defender remaining at Lyon for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Malo Gusto Completes Chelsea Medical<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Understand Malo Gusto has completed medical tests as new Chelsea player, after landing in London early morning \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35\ud83e\ude7a <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>Contract until June 2029 \u2014 Chelsea will pay fee close to \u20ac30m but Malo Gusto will only join Chelsea in July, staying at OL until end of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6KeTmQUymI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6KeTmQUymI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1619403779874656257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>One Step Closer<\/h3>\n<p>Negotiations have been difficult, but it appears as though Gusto will get his wish of a move to Chelsea before the window closes.<\/p>\n<p>Although, at one stage, it didn&#8217;t seem as though that would be the case. Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/24\/chelsea-contact-lyon-for-malo-gusto\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">agreeing on personal terms<\/a> with the player early on, discussions with Lyon proved to be more complicated. The French club rejected the Blues&#8217; opening bid, and at first, Chelsea were not keen on allowing Gusto to stay with Lyon until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/28\/tottenham-hotspur-harry-kane-contract-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u2018No Chance:\u2019 Journalist Issues Surprise Tottenham Transfer Update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Todd Boehly and co eventually weakened their stance, which allowed talks between the two clubs to progress much more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it is more a case of when, not if, Chelsea confirm the signing of the highly-rated defender.<\/p>\n<h3>Shrewd Business<\/h3>\n<p>This move represents smart business by Chelsea, something which has been astonishingly rare during Boehly&#8217;s time at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, Graham Potter&#8217;s side are incredibly short on numbers in the right-back position. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11668\/12775712\/reece-james-chelsea-confirm-defender-is-out-for-up-to-a-month-after-knee-injury-against-bournemouth#:~:text=Chelsea%20defender%20Reece%20James%20is,stadium%20wearing%20a%20knee%20brace.\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reece James out injured<\/a>, and Cesar Azpilicueta past his best, Potter has opted to use Trevoh Chalobah as a makeshift right-back. Gusto will solve that issue, albeit not until the start of next season.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, and perhaps most impressively, the agreed-upon fee is more than reasonable for a young player with such high potential, especially in the January transfer window. His wage will also likely be more than affordable, with the Frenchman <a href=\"https:\/\/salarysport.com\/football\/ligue-1\/olympique-lyonnais\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> earning a modest \u00a36,900-a-week at his current club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/28\/arsenal-chelsea-moises-caicedo-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal and Chelsea Fight Over \u2018World-Class\u2019 Player\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea may have made some questionable signings in the last six months, but this certainly isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"FZbbXzA8TQ9kh7jQSrNcbQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1239982076\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'FZbbXzA8TQ9kh7jQSrNcbQ',sig:'pahH4LPBQMFngt9bc8K4oJFHsFdBo3HUK5CZ9YkLYnY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1239982076',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have been working on the signing of Lyon right-back Malo Gusto for the majority of the transfer window, and the Blues have moved one step closer to securing the Frenchman&#8217;s signature. Transfer Guru Fabrizio Romano revealed that: &#8220;Malo Gusto has completed medical tests as new Chelsea player, after landing in London early morning.&#8221; Romano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4305,"featured_media":621585,"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":[11,7,3,7188],"tags":[8611,4259,976,9702],"class_list":["post-621583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-ligue-1","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-lyon","tag-malo-gusto"],"modified_by":"Harry Dowsett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621583","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\/4305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}