{"id":1966,"date":"2026-08-07T13:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:09:20","slug":"chelsea-reach-agreement-to-sign-rayo-vallecanos-pep-chavarria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/chelsea-reach-agreement-to-sign-rayo-vallecanos-pep-chavarria\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea reach agreement to sign Rayo Vallecano&#8217;s Pep Chavarria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-8-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blues ramp up their transfer activity as they close in on a deal for the Spanish defender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chelsea have reached an agreement to sign 28-year-old left-back Pep Chavarria following a string of impressive displays for Rayo Vallecano, according to reports from journalist Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal has been structured around a fixed fee of 19 million euros, with a further two million euros in performance-related add-ons included in the final package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Romano, Chavarria is scheduled to travel in the coming hours to undergo his medical examinations before putting pen to paper on his contract with the Premier League side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final paperwork between Chelsea and Rayo Vallecano is expected to be completed tonight, officially sanctioning the Spanish defender&#8217;s move to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blues ramp up their transfer activity as they close in on a deal for the Spanish defender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}