{"id":11898,"date":"2023-01-10T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=270403"},"modified":"2023-01-10T06:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T00:42:12","slug":"chelsea-close-to-sign-joao-felix-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/chelsea-close-to-sign-joao-felix-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea close to sign Joao Felix on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League side is set to make their fourth signing of the January transfer window as they have made Joao Felix as their priority forward signing. However it won\u2019t be a permanent deal as per Fabrizio Romano but a loan deal until June 2023. Joao Felix will be in the English Premier League for 6 months and he has already given green light for this transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid wanted Joao Felix to stay at the club but the player wanted a move and the club decided to send him on loan instead of selling him permanently. Not just Chelsea FC but there were other clubs who were interested in the winger. Manchester United were also looking for the Portuguese forward as they are searching for a new striker after Ronaldo left the club before FIFA World Cup 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Joao Felix has now interested in joining Chelsea and personal terms are not an issue as reported by Fabrizio Romano on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChelsea are now expected to close in on Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix deal in 24\/48h \u2014 as final details of the agreement with Atletico Madrid are being finalised,\u201d tweeted Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea FC are in advanced talks with Atletico Madrid to sign Joao Felix on loan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":34349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2549,3472,249,3438],"class_list":["post-11898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-joao-felix","tag-manchester-united","tag-portugal-football-team"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}