{"id":1009870,"date":"2026-08-19T02:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1009870\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:13:18","slug":"watch-chelsea-fc-star-arrives-for-medical-as-next-transfer-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1009870\/","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\/us\/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":3,"featured_media":1009871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[173548,7759,7760,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1009870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-benoit-badiashile","tag-napoli","tag-serie-a","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}