{"id":95352,"date":"2022-08-04T19:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cesar-azpilicueta-signs-new-two-year-chelsea-contract-to-end-barcelona-speculation"},"modified":"2022-08-04T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:20:20","slug":"cesar-azpilicueta-signs-new-two-year-chelsea-contract-to-end-barcelona-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cesar-azpilicueta-signs-new-two-year-chelsea-contract-to-end-barcelona-speculation","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Azpilicueta signs new two-year Chelsea contract to end Barcelona speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cesar Azpilicueta has committed his future to Chelsea by extending his Blues contract until 2024. The Chelsea captain has added another two years to his west London stay, thwarting Barcelona &#8217;s long-running pursuit of the 32-year-old. The Spain full-back joined Chelsea from Marseille in 2012 and has swept the board of major club trophies since, with the 2021 Champions League and 2022 Club World Cup completing the set. The long-serving defender automatically triggered a one-year addition to his Chelsea deal at the back-end of last term, but has now committed to a more lasting extension to his Stamford Bridge tenure. Boss Thomas Tuchel was understood to be determined to retain Azpilicueta in light of Toni Rudiger and Andreas Christensen&#8217;s departures, especially given the experienced Spaniard&#8217;s leadership and influence at the Blues. &#8220;I am really happy to extend my stay at Chelsea, my home,&#8221; said Azpilicueta. &#8220;It is almost 10 years since I first arrived and joined the club, so I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cesar Azpilicueta has committed his future to Chelsea by extending his Blues contract until 2024.The Chelsea captain has added another two years to his west London stay, thwarting Barcelona&#8217;s long-running<\/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":[142,139,138,58],"class_list":["post-95352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-champions-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95352","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=95352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}