{"id":626630,"date":"2023-08-16T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=626630"},"modified":"2023-08-16T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:34:15","slug":"romeo-lavia-chelsea-romano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/16\/romeo-lavia-chelsea-romano\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano Confirms Target &#8216;Will Be Unveiled as Chelsea Player&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has issued a massive update on Chelsea&#8217;s interest in Southampton midfielder Romeo Lavia. Not only has the move been given his trademark &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1691545075619082240\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here we go<\/a>&#8221; but he has reported that the midfielder &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1691547649424388096\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will be unveiled as Chelsea player this week<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/chelsea&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; style=&#8221;fraction&#8221; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Near Deal for Romeo Lavia<\/h2>\n<h3>Fee Details<\/h3>\n<p>Including add-ons the reported fee is \u00a360 million for the teenager. Romano later clarified that the exact details are \u00a353 million fixed with roughly \u00a35 million in add-ons. With the fee out of the way it is expected that the player will be officially unveiled by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/14\/moises-caicedo-chelsea-brighton-liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Just Completed\u2019: Chelsea Now on the Verge of Star Signing After Latest Development<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The player has already said yes to the Blues and was just awaiting an agreement between the two parties for the move to proceed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch: <\/strong>Why Liverpool and Chelsea are DESTROYING the Transfer Market<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Liverpool and Chelsea are DESTROYING the Transfer Market\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQaiRguMTGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Here We Go<\/h3>\n<p>With his trademark &#8220;here we go&#8221; given, the move is all but official. The medicals are scheduled to take place this week and will be one of the final steps to confirming the move. An agreement has been reached between the two teams which means there are very few steps left in completing this signing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/15\/michael-olise-chelsea-release-clause\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">&#8216;Activated Release Clause&#8217;: Chelsea Now Set to Complete Signing of Player with &#8216;Enormous Talent&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Belgian is set to join new singing Moises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez in Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s midfield. The three young players could form the backbone of the club&#8217;s midfield for many years to come, especially with two being more defensive-oriented, allowing Fernandez to use his full array of passes.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have now made a slew of signings this summer including names like Robert Sanchez, Christopher Nlunku, Nicolas Jackson, and the aforementioned Caicedo. It has been a summer of spending for the side aiming to improve on a lower-half finish in the Premier League last term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_624394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-624394\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-624394 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Chelsea-FC-Stamford-Bridge-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Stamford Bridge - Moises Caicedo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Chelsea-FC-Stamford-Bridge-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Chelsea-FC-Stamford-Bridge-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Chelsea-FC-Stamford-Bridge-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Chelsea-FC-Stamford-Bridge-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/Chelsea-FC-Stamford-Bridge.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-624394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Pexels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has issued a massive update on Chelsea&#8217;s interest in Southampton midfielder Romeo Lavia. Not only has the move been given his trademark &#8220;here we go&#8221; but he has reported that the midfielder &#8220;will be unveiled as Chelsea player this week&#8221; [metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/chelsea&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; style=&#8221;fraction&#8221; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;] Chelsea Near Deal for Romeo Lavia Fee Details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4764,"featured_media":624394,"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":"1692079200","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Journalists Updates on Lavia","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,7188],"tags":[8611,9749],"class_list":["post-626630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-romeo-lavia"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626630","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\/4764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}