{"id":7074,"date":"2017-08-31T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:25:14","slug":"chelsea-sign-davide-zappacosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2017\/08\/31\/chelsea-sign-davide-zappacosta\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Sign Davide Zappacosta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a> have completed the signing of Davide Zappacosta from Torino. The Italian right back joins in a surprise move on deadline day, with minimal media noise in the days previous. The Italian international joins for a fee in the region of\u00a0\u00a320 million. He jumps straight into training with Antonio Conte, after being left out of the Italian squad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Davide Zappacosta is a Blue! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeDavide?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeDavide<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c3C8TbLeZm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/c3C8TbLeZm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/903381493581524994\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Chelsea Sign Davide Zappacosta<\/h1>\n<p>Much like Marcos Alonso or David Luiz last season, the Zappacosta deal comes out of nowhere. Small rumblings early summer, nothing for most of the window, then a completed deal. The Italian adds much needed depth at right wingback for Victor Moses. A strong crosser of the ball and good contributor in the attacking phase, his touch of quality in the final ball is what Chelsea lack.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of Serie A&#8217;s best fullbacks last season. Sky&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/903245709499146240\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> says, &#8220;Born to Run. Typical Conte&#8217;s player.&#8221; However, it is unlikely he will slide immediately into a starting role. With competition on all fronts, it is an important deal for Chelsea to make. The squad is still thin, but signing Zappacosta goes a long way. He alleviates many of the fears over wingback depth.<\/p>\n<h2>Deadline Day Madness<\/h2>\n<p>In the final hours of the deadline, signing Zappacosta is a good deal, especially at the price. If he turns out half as well as Marcos Alonso (a moderately unknown Serie A wingback), Chelsea supporters are in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"pB-pDPlARy9KtBgfR9OiYA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/675753498\" 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:'pB-pDPlARy9KtBgfR9OiYA',sig:'MyQw__1q5REwhO6IbhilEqw5LYBO9ZH9KAYG1BliP4A=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'675753498',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Main Caption: TURIN, ITALY &#8211; APRIL 29: Davide Zappacosta of FC Torino in action during the Serie A match between FC Torino and UC Sampdoria at Stadio Olimpico di Torino on April 29, 2017 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Valerio Pennicino\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have completed the signing of Davide Zappacosta from Torino. The Italian right back joins in a surprise move on deadline day, with minimal media noise in the days previous. The Italian international joins for a fee in the region of\u00a0\u00a320 million. He jumps straight into training with Antonio Conte, after being left out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":7100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[11,30,3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","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\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}