{"id":81868,"date":"2022-07-18T12:48:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/chelsea-report-blues-dealt-blow-as-barcelona-enter-race-for-key-target"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T12:48:52","slug":"chelsea-report-blues-dealt-blow-as-barcelona-enter-race-for-key-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/chelsea-report-blues-dealt-blow-as-barcelona-enter-race-for-key-target","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea report: Blues dealt blow as Barcelona enter race for key target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have been dealt a blow in their pursuit of Sevilla centre-back Jules Kounde, according to reports. The Blues wrapped up a deal to sign Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli over the weekend, but they still want to bring in more defenders before the transfer window closes at the beginning of September. Chelsea have lost Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen to Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively, with the pair opting to seek pastures new when their contracts at Stamford Bridge expired on June 30. Thiago Silva will turn 38 in December and is unlikely to be able to play twice a week in what is set to be a particularly hectic season. And Cesar Azpilicueta may yet leave west London, with Barcelona interested in Chelsea&#8217;s club captain. (Image credit: Getty) The same side are now threatening to derail Chelsea&#8217;s pursuit of Kounde, who is a long-term target for the west London outfit. Reports on Sunday stated that the Blues were set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea&#8217;s hopes of signing a La Liga defender have taken a hit in recent days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,138,58],"class_list":["post-81868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}