{"id":27525,"date":"2024-04-16T21:05:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-good-deal-glen-johnson-wants-chelsea-to-sign-man-utd-star\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:05:22","slug":"epl-good-deal-glen-johnson-wants-chelsea-to-sign-man-utd-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-good-deal-glen-johnson-wants-chelsea-to-sign-man-utd-star\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Good deal \u2013 Glen Johnson wants Chelsea to sign Man Utd star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Chelsea defender Glen Johnson has urged the Blues to sign Raphael Varane from Manchester United during the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Man United opted against triggering an extension in Varane\u2019s contract midway through the current season.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman, who joined the Red Devils from Real Madrid in 2024, could leave Old Trafford as a free agent in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Varane is currently sidelined through injury and has been linked with a summer return to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>However, Johnson wants Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s side to bring the 30-year-old to Stamford Bridge, insisting that it would be a good deal for the west London club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood players like that don\u2019t come around often and they certainly come around less often on a free transfer,\u201d Johnson told Betfred when speaking about whether Chelsea should sign Varane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he\u2019s not the Varane he was three or four years ago but he is still a bloody good player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cYes, he\u2019s had his injury problems but that is what outweighs the transfer fee \u2013 if you are buying him on a free and he is only playing 40 per cent of the games, then that is still a good deal to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have got a chance with Varane on a free transfer and he\u2019s only going to play 50 per cent of the games, I still think it\u2019s a good deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Good deal \u2013 Glen Johnson wants Chelsea to sign Man Utd star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea defender Glen Johnson has urged the Blues to sign Raphael Varane from Manchester United during the summer transfer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,194,2977,1305,15,160],"tags":[609,156,2979,2978,202,180,201,203],"class_list":["post-27525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-epl","category-glen-johnson","category-man-utd","category-news","category-sport","tag-chelsea","tag-epl","tag-glen","tag-johnson","tag-man","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-utd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}