{"id":298103,"date":"2025-07-28T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298103\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:20:16","slug":"chelsea-close-in-on-deal-for-35m-defender-19-wanted-by-liverpool-and-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298103\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea &#8216;close in on deal for \u00a335m defender, 19,&#8217; wanted by Liverpool and Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-604\/zac-campbell.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZAC CAMPBELL<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  04:58 EDT, 28 July 2025   |  Updated:  05:20 EDT, 28 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/chelsea\/index.html\" id=\"mol-f8cfdc80-6b90-11f0-911e-a1376d3dbd1d\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> are nearing a deal to sign versatile Ajax defender Jorrel Hato for over \u00a335million as they continue their summer spending spree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Blues have already spent heavily this summer by bringing in Joao Pedro, Liam Delap, Jamie Gittens, Dario Essugo and Estevao for a combined sum of over \u00a3200m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, they do not appear to be done yet, as <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6512846\/2025\/07\/28\/jorrel-hato-chelsea-transfer\/\">The Athletic<\/a>\u00a0reports that Enzo Maresca&#8217;s side are nearing a comprise with Ajax over a transfer for the player.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Hato, 19, has been capped six times by the Netherlands at senior level having come up through the ranks as a youngster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He joined\u00a0Ajax in 2018 from Sparta Rotterdam and has been a regular member of their first team since making his first appearance in January 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Dutchman has played 111 times for Ajax and already captained them, while being deployed at both left-back and centre-back.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d7bb786acc159e00\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100691157-0-image-a-6_1753693006295.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Chelsea are nearing a deal to sign versatile Ajax defender Jorrel Hato\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Chelsea are nearing a deal to sign versatile Ajax defender Jorrel Hato<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Reports in the Netherlands claim that Hato asked to be omitted from the Dutch giants&#8217; pre-season match against Como on Sunday as he looks to complete a move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">MORE TO FOLLOW&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DailyMailSport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Chelsea &#8216;close in on deal for \u00a335m defender, 19,&#8217; wanted by Liverpool and Arsenal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ZAC CAMPBELL Published: 04:58 EDT, 28 July 2025 | Updated: 05:20 EDT, 28 July 2025 Chelsea are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[161,748,885,92,393,94,4884,179,93,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-chelsea","11":"tag-dailymail","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-liverpool","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-transfer-news","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114930124380988579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298103","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=298103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}