{"id":310262,"date":"2025-08-01T21:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310262\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:31:33","slug":"former-super-league-stars-son-signs-reported-six-year-deal-for-premier-league-club-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310262\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Super League star&#8217;s son signs reported six-year deal for Premier League club Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2400\" height=\"1627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AM50590.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>The son of a former Super League star has reportedly signed a long-term deal with World Club Cup champions Chelsea Football Club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are one of the sport\u2019s leading sides, as evidenced by the fact they won the inaugural 32-team Club World Cup which was held in the United States of America earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>They already have a rugby league connection with ex-Wigan Warriors forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/retired-wigan-warriors-star-makes-shock-switch-to-huge-premier-league-club-101356\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Willie Isa joining the club in an off-field role<\/a> after he announced his shock retirement on the eve of the current season.<\/p>\n<p>Isa has been appointed as a \u2018Player Support and Development Officer\u2019, working in and around the men\u2019s team in terms of operations and player welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The Club World Cup champions have now delved into rugby league once again but this time to sign a player with Isaac McGillvary, the son of legendary Huddersfield Giants star Jermaine, reportedly signing a deal with the club\u2019s academy system.<\/p>\n<p>Son of Super League legend Jermaine McGillvary signs for Chelsea<\/p>\n<p>Reports that Isaac McGillvary would sign with Chelsea were reported in early July by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/chelsea-man-city-isaac-mcgillvary-pep-guardiola-enzo-maresca-premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Football Insider<\/a>\u00a0with those reports claiming that the 14-year-old had been offered a six-year deal with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a month and leading football journalist Fabrizio Romano has reported that McGillvary has signed with Chelsea, though there is no mention of the contract length.<\/p>\n<p>Per Romano: \u201cChelsea have completed (a) deal for the Academy to sign talented attacking midfielder Isaac McGillvary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most promising talents in the UK at his age, Isaac joins the Chelsea project to further his development. CFC delighted with this important youth addition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGillvary had been part of Manchester City\u2019s academy set-up and he\u2019s also featured for his nation at under-14 level.<\/p>\n<p>His father, Jermaine, hung up the boots at the end of the 2024 season after finishing his career with a one-year deal at Wakefield where he helped guide them back to Super League.<\/p>\n<p>McGillvary had spent his career with Huddersfield Giants where he\u2019s rightly thought of as a club legend, however, he left at the end of 2023 after no new deal was offered.<\/p>\n<p>His son isn\u2019t the first with a talented rugby league father to follow a career in football with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/son-of-leeds-rhinos-legend-signs-contract-with-premier-league-side-84861\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kylie Leuluai\u2019s son Marley signing for Burnley in late 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 Chelsea have completed deal for the Academy to sign talented attacking midfielder Isaac McGillvary.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most promising talents in the UK at his age, Isaac joins the Chelsea project to further his development.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFC<\/a> delighted with this important youth addition. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CZJ9rjPh45\">pic.twitter.com\/CZJ9rjPh45<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1951231812782440528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/srl-logo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of a former Super League star has reportedly signed a long-term deal with World Club Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-310262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955648268717689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310262","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=310262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}