{"id":652350,"date":"2025-03-02T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T09:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=652350"},"modified":"2025-03-02T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T09:52:12","slug":"chelsea-denner-evangelista-deal-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/02\/chelsea-denner-evangelista-deal-agreed\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Here We Go’: Chelsea Reach Agreement for New Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea are maintaining their push towards a top-4 finish as the 2024\/25 Premier League nears its final stages. However, the Blues are constantly working on improving their squad for the long term and have now ventured into the Brazilian market for youngster Denner Evangelista.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chelsea Agree Deal for Denner Evangelista Signing<\/span><\/h2>\n

How Much Will Denner Signing Cost Chelsea?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has reported that the London side have agreed on a deal for the 17-year-old to join from Corinthians for \u00a38.25 million plus \u00a32.06 million in add-ons and taxes. Romano further reveals that the contract will be until 2032, with the defender joining the Stamford Bridge club in 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The powers that be at Stamford Bridge have made it clear they have more than one eye on the future with the players they have signed since taking over at Stamford Bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who Is Denner?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Denner is yet to make his debut for Corinthians’ senior team, having only played at the youth level in the Brazilian football scene so far. The 17-year-old is a left-back, who has made 18 appearances for Corinthians’ under-20 team in his career, scoring four goals and providing one assist during that period. Chelsea have been fond of scouting the Brazilian football scene over the last few years, signing talents like Andrey Santos and\u00a0<\/span>Estavo Willian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Denner, meanwhile, has also been selected for the Brazil under-17 squad ahead of the upcoming South American Championship. The 17-year-old is also <\/span>reportedly<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the cousin of Arsenal centre-back Gabriel Magalhaes, who has impressed at the heart of the Gunners’ backline in recent years. Denner, however, will have to perform at a very high level to win over the Chelsea hierarchy and ensure that he’s considered a key first-team player once he joins up with the senior squad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea are maintaining their push towards a top-4 finish as the 2024\/25 Premier League nears its final stages. However, the Blues are constantly working on improving their squad for the long term and have now ventured into the Brazilian market for youngster Denner Evangelista. Chelsea Agree Deal for Denner Evangelista Signing How Much Will Denner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":647867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[8611,32222],"class_list":["post-652350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-denner-evangelista"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652350","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=652350"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652368,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652350\/revisions\/652368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}