{"id":30466,"date":"2024-08-11T15:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30466"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:27:36","slug":"chelsea-signs-portuguese-international-winger-neto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/11\/chelsea-signs-portuguese-international-winger-neto\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Signs Portuguese International Winger Neto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea continued its recent series of signings by acquiring Portuguese international winger Pedro Neto from Wolverhampton on Sunday in a deal worth \u00a354 million ($69 million) and a seven-year contract. Neto (24 years old) becomes the ninth player to join the London team during the winter transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea has spent around \u00a3185 million in recent months, mostly on young players who are expected to be key to the club\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Neto is expected to be a key element in the lineup of new Italian coach Enzo Maresca, whose team will face a baptism of fire in the new season\u2019s opener as they host four-time Premier League champions Manchester City next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The club\u2019s official website quoted Neto as saying, &#8220;I\u2019m really grateful to join this club.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I\u2019ve worked hard in my career to be here, and I\u2019m looking forward to defending the colors of this team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neto was officially presented to Chelsea fans at the end of the first half of their friendly match against Inter Milan at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Neto joined Wolverhampton in 2019 from Lazio and scored 14 goals in 135 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Wolverhampton\u2019s sporting director Matt Hobbs, after the club parted ways with the player for a record fee, said, &#8220;Pedro is a world-class winger, and he\u2019s been unlucky with injuries, so we\u2019ll obviously miss him on the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, &#8220;The deal suits us and Pedro, but that doesn\u2019t make it any easier at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Chelsea continued its recent series of signings by acquiring Portuguese international winger Pedro Neto from Wolverhampton on Sunday in a deal worth \u00a354 million ($69 million) and a seven-year contract. Neto (24 years old) becomes the ninth player to join the London team during the winter transfer window. Chelsea has spent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30467,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30466\/revisions\/30467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}