{"id":9731,"date":"2022-07-28T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T22:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2022-07-28T22:51:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T22:51:36","slug":"barcelona-sign-chelsea-target-kounde-from-sevilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9731","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Sign Chelsea Target Kound\u00e9 From Sevilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Spanish giants Barcelona confirmed on Thursday an \u201cagreement in principle\u201d with Sevilla for the signing of 23-year-old French center-back Jules Kound\u00e9 on a permanent transfer, pending a medical to make the deal official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kound\u00e9\u2019s signing comes after a long bidding war between Bar\u00e7a and Chelsea, who last Thursday reached an agreement with Sevilla on a deal worth over \u20ac60 million but were never given the green light to make the transfer official.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kound\u00e9\u2019s priority was always Bar\u00e7a, and the Catalans finally acted over the last few days and presented a formal offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Things moved pretty quickly from there, and now the transfer is official.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to several reports, the deal has been closed for 50 million euros with an additional 10 million to come in performance bonuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The French international offers a giant upgrade to Bar\u00e7a\u2019s defense and should form a formidable center-back pairing alongside Ronald Araujo, and the Blaugrana continue to add major depth to Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s squad ahead of what could be a great season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish giants Barcelona confirmed on Thursday an \u201cagreement in principle\u201d with Sevilla for the signing of 23-year-old French center-back Jules Kound\u00e9 on a permanent transfer, pending a medical to make the deal official. Kound\u00e9\u2019s signing comes after a long bidding war between Bar\u00e7a and Chelsea, who last Thursday reached an agreement with Sevilla on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[588,1373,5525,1444],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-chelsea","tag-jules-kounde","tag-sevilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9733,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions\/9733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}