{"id":47339,"date":"2024-08-16T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-ugochukwu-to-leave-chelsea-for-epl-rivals\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:00:07","slug":"transfer-ugochukwu-to-leave-chelsea-for-epl-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-ugochukwu-to-leave-chelsea-for-epl-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Ugochukwu to leave Chelsea for EPL rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chelsea midfielder, Lesley Ugochukwu, is set to go on loan to Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Athletic, it will be a season-long loan.<\/p>\n<p>With Enzo Maresca inheriting a bloated squad, Ugochukwu will be sent out to get more playing time.<\/p>\n<p>Ugochukwu signed for Chelsea last summer from Rennes for a \u00a323.5m fee.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old made 13 appearances under Mauricio Pochettino last season.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ugochukwu missed virtually the entire second half of the campaign with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>He did return for the final few games of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer: Ugochukwu to leave Chelsea for EPL rivals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea midfielder, Lesley Ugochukwu, is set to go on loan to Southampton. According to The Athletic, it will be a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,194,15,160,21509],"tags":[609,156,190,1817,180,1112,201,1695,12237],"class_list":["post-47339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-epl","category-news","category-sport","category-ugochukwu","tag-chelsea","tag-epl","tag-for","tag-leave","tag-news","tag-rivals","tag-sport","tag-transfer","tag-ugochukwu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47339","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=47339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}