{"id":671921,"date":"2026-07-03T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=671921"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:18:23","slug":"homegrown-chelsea-defender-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/03\/homegrown-chelsea-defender-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Homegrown Chelsea Defender &#8216;Wants&#8217; To Play Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transfer market is almost in full swing despite the FIFA World Cup taking centre stage for many fans. Chelsea FC are in the midst of a retooling after finishing tenth in the league, Xabi Alonso has been appointed to take them back up the table but there will have to be incomings and outgoings to morph the squad into one that is ideal for him. Reports are that one Cobham graduate is eyeing a summer exit with suitors coming from his preferred league.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/24\/chelsea-reportedly-200-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Reportedly Set To Get \u00a3200 Million Transfer Boon<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Homegrown Chelsea Defender Wants To Play In Another League<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"a61405551f80e72f675225f083759bb9\" image-id=\"fwuQl2nq72Nk\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 4096px; aspect-ratio: 4096\/2730;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h3>Latest Report<\/h3>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AbsoluteChelsea\/status\/2072978395097448905\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporting<\/a> that Trevoh Chalobah has representatives in Milan currently. Talks are said to be underway with Inter Milan to discuss a move with Como also noted to have interest in signing the Englishman. An important addition from Romano is that the Cobham graduate &#8220;wants to play in Italy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/30\/xabi-alonso-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Xabi Alonso To Welcome \u2018Once-In-A-Generation Talent\u2019 During Chelsea Pre-Season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That new wrinkle adds some substance to the transfer rumours and makes it more likely that the 26-year-old will exit in the summer.<\/p>\n<h3>Is This a Good Move<\/h3>\n<p>Whether it is Inter or Como, they will be getting a proven, experienced defender who has always managed to make his way into the manager&#8217;s plans. He has featured in a back four, a back three, and even as a right back as a testament to his versatility and mental fortitude when on the field. He&#8217;s been cast off on loans and been brought back to the Blues to play regularly, one thing is for certain, he doesn&#8217;t quit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/29\/projected-chelsea-squad-2627-june-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Projected Chelsea Squad for 26\/27 as of June 29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the Serie A having a reputation as a highly defensive league, he could fit in like a glove to any top team, particualrly as it is a less physically demanding league where Chalobah&#8217;s strengths stand out, with his pace in particular likely to be an asset in Italy. The big question would be what fee he eventually goes for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Sportimage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transfer market is almost in full swing despite the FIFA World Cup taking centre stage for many fans. Chelsea FC are in the midst of a retooling after finishing tenth in the league, Xabi Alonso has been appointed to take them back up the table but there will have to be incomings and outgoings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":657062,"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":[11,30,7188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-news","category-rumours"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671921","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671923,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671921\/revisions\/671923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}