{"id":657344,"date":"2025-07-27T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=657344"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:59:51","slug":"xavi-simons-ig-post-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/27\/xavi-simons-ig-post-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Follow the Plan’ – Xavi Simons Drops Cryptic IG Hint Amid Chelsea Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2024\/25 season for Chelsea was <\/span>a real<\/span> mixed bag until the club finished strongly, qualifying for the Champions League and winning the Europa Conference League. Enzo Maresca’s men continued this impressive form, winning the Club World Cup. <\/span>Chelsea<\/span><\/a> have been active in the summer transfer window, and Dutch international Xavi Simons has been heavily linked with a move to Stamford Bridge. He’s now sparked fresh speculation after posting a cryptic message on his <\/span>Instagram Stories<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Xavi Simons Fuels Chelsea Speculation With Cryptic Post<\/h3>\n

After their strong finish to the season, Chelsea have looked to strengthen ahead of their return to the Champions League. The West London Club have so far signed Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, Joao Pedro, Liam Delap, Estevao, Dario Essugo, Mamadou Sarr and Kendry Paez. <\/span>A plethora of players have left, with <\/span>Joao Felix<\/span> the likely next player to <\/span>leave<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With <\/span>Felix leaving<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>it’s expected<\/span> to help accelerate the club’s pursuit of Simons. The Dutch international has fuelled speculation further, with a cryptic IG post that, when translated into English, reads: “Follow the plan. Never doubt the process.”<\/span><\/p>\n

What Xavi Simons Could Bring to Chelsea<\/h3>\n

Since failing to make his mark in Paris, the Dutchman moved to PSV where he showed his class, before impressing at his current club RB Leipzig. Simons is exceptional when taking on defenders and maintaining possession. He showed this against England when he robbed Declan Rice and fired an unstoppable shot past Jordan Pickford.<\/p>\n

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He possesses impressive vision when picking out teammates and is a clinical finisher, which will add another threat for Enzo Maresca. His composure on the ball means he will slot in effortlessly alongside players such as Cole Palmer and Enzo Fernandez.<\/p>\n

Chelsea will be eager to get this deal done, and their attack will have been completely transformed from last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2024\/25 season for Chelsea was a real mixed bag until the club finished strongly, qualifying for the Champions League and winning the Europa Conference League. Enzo Maresca’s men continued this impressive form, winning the Club World Cup. Chelsea have been active in the summer transfer window, and Dutch international Xavi Simons has been heavily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":649655,"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":[4,11,30,3,7188],"tags":[8611,9877],"class_list":["post-657344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-chelsea","category-news","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-xavi-simons"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657344","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=657344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657351,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657344\/revisions\/657351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}