{"id":1156567,"date":"2026-08-19T00:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1156567\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:33:19","slug":"watch-chelsea-fc-star-arrives-for-medical-as-next-transfer-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1156567\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Chelsea FC star arrives for medical as next transfer imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/newsletter_chelsea_embed_desktop.png\" alt=\"Chelsea Football Newsletter\" width=\"175\" height=\"192\" class=\"sc-bIaHMm clJOzG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Blues are set to receive a loan fee worth \u20ac3m (\u00a32.5m), while Napoli\u2019s buy option is thought to be worth \u20ac27m (\u00a323m).<\/p>\n<p>He has now been caught on camera arriving in Naples to undergo his medical and complete the move.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared by Sky Italy shows the defender in the back seat of a taxi leaving Naples airport.<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Benoit Badiashile arrives in Naples ahead of Chelsea exit<\/p>\n<p>He had previously been pictured on a private jet with his agent, Mounir Sidhoum.<\/p>\n<p>Badiashile has not featured for Chelsea since March, when he completed the full duration of Chelsea\u2019s FA Cup win at Wrexham, which required extra time.<\/p>\n<p>It has been another summer of considerable turnover for the Blues, who have added defensive might with the signings of Maxence Lacroix, Marcos Palestra and Pep Chavarria.<\/p>\n<p>He is not the first defender to depart, however, with Trevoh Chalobah completing a transfer to Napoli\u2019s Serie A rivals Como last week.<\/p>\n<p>Badiashile will hope to help Napoli close the gap to Serie A champions Inter Milan, to whom the Azzurri finished as runners-up last season. The clubs were separated by 11 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blues are set to receive a loan fee worth \u20ac3m (\u00a32.5m), while Napoli\u2019s buy option is thought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1156568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4100],"tags":[176267,94,6277,8634,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1156567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-benoit-badiashile","tag-football","tag-napoli","tag-serie-a","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117119366543685185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}