{"id":622128,"date":"2023-02-15T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=622128"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T18:04:07","slug":"chelsea-competing-for-kendry-paez-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/15\/chelsea-competing-for-kendry-paez-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano: Chelsea in Contact With \u2018Super Young Talent\u2019 Amid Competition From Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are now in a race to sign Ecuador U17 star Kendry Paez from Independiente del Valle in the summer, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1625505235996123136?s=20&amp;t=TJGGGuk8Lmu3Vqp4IChL2w\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. The Blues are aiming to continue their pursuit of signing quality young players and build on their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/06\/chelsea-vision-2030-project\/\" target=\"_self\">vision for the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea in Contact With Kendry Paez Over Potential Move<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chelsea are in the race with Man Utd and Bayer Leverkusen to sign Kendry Paez, 2007-born Ecuadorian talent \u2b50\ufe0f\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udde8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/transfers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#transfers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Independiente del Valle\u2019s midfielder, Kendry Paez is highly rated \u2014 decision to be made soon.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CmlarAfNTu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/CmlarAfNTu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MMl6sQJDzt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/MMl6sQJDzt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1625505235996123136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Facing Premier League Rivals Competition for Paez<\/h3>\n<p>Romano also adds that Manchester United are in the race to sign the 15-year-old midfielder after being impressed with his performances. Not just that, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=68RVmUtNJjI&amp;ab_channel=FabrizioRomano\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even Manchester City are monitoring Paez<\/a>\u00a0with Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen also interested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/13\/future-denis-zakaria-chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Yet to Make Final Decision on Denis Zakaria\u2019s Future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is added by Romano that Chelsea might be in the best possible place to sign him, as they are directly in contact with the midfielder&#8217;s representatives over the deal. The 15-year-old is said to be &#8216;highly rated&#8217;, but there is yet to be a final decision to be made for what lies in his future.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/young-forward-morgan-transfers-to-chelsea?utm_source=tw&amp;utm_medium=orgsoc&amp;utm_campaign=none\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed\u00a0young striker in Jimmy-Jay Morgan<\/a> from Southampton, as they aim to create a formidable core for the future that will help them stay among the top-competing sides in the Premier League for many years.<br \/>\n<a id=\"LqmTU6BnTcZYa1FUTTaUfA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242040737\" 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:'LqmTU6BnTcZYa1FUTTaUfA',sig:'90OA1Q5SrTnVw0jKAAMrO-PJGBD7v3lTEvg-YWXNhp8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242040737',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Who Is Kendry Paez?<\/h3>\n<p>A product of the Ecuador club Independiente del Valle&#8217;s youth academy, the 15-year-old midfielder is reportedly earning a lot of interest from some of Europe&#8217;s best clubs. Romano even terms him a &#8216;super young talent&#8217; and that it will also take him some time to be able to play in Europe because of his age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/09\/chelsea-ben-chilwell-manchester-city-interest\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City Eyeing Summer Move for Ben Chilwell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paez can play as a centre-midfielder as well as an attacking midfielder, thriving in the former role. He&#8217;s made five appearances for Ecuador&#8217;s U15 national team in his career and had three goal contributions, scoring one goal and registering two assists. Chelsea also signed young <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/01\/andrey-santos-chelsea-arrival\/\" target=\"_self\">Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos<\/a>\u00a0last month, but it appears they&#8217;re looking for more special South American talents to improve their squad for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are now in a race to sign Ecuador U17 star Kendry Paez from Independiente del Valle in the summer, reports Fabrizio Romano. The Blues are aiming to continue their pursuit of signing quality young players and build on their vision for the future. Chelsea in Contact With Kendry Paez Over Potential Move Chelsea are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":622158,"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":[3,11,7188],"tags":[9736],"class_list":["post-622128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-rumours","tag-kendry-paez"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622128","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}