{"id":108162,"date":"2025-07-31T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108162\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:03:15","slug":"official-rc-strasbourg-sign-kendry-paez-on-loan-from-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108162\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: RC Strasbourg sign Kendry P\u00e1ez on loan from Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"rHwYsN\">Chelsea agreed to sign Kendry P\u00e1ez from Independiene del Valle in Ecuador two years ago when he was just 16, at which time he already looked destined for the first-team.  Due to FIFA regulations, the young midfielder couldn\u2019t join until he turned 18 of course, by which time those plans had changed \u2014 if only a little bit.<\/p>\n<p id=\"PpLQ3c\">Player development is of course never linear, but Kendry has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/kendry-paez-joins-strasbourg-on-loan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now<\/a> gone on loan to RC Strasbourg instead, where he completes our maximum allowed three loanees (after Mamadou Sarr and Mike Penders).  He had come along to the States for the Club World Cup, but strictly as an observer (and to train with the team).<\/p>\n<p id=\"Kjn81a\">Kendry had been a mainstay of Independiente these last two seasons, making 70 appearances all told, and chipping in with 13 goals.  Once referred to as the \u201cEcuadorian Messi\u201d, his play and his positioning has evolved a bit, dropping a bit deeper and more central in midfield.  For the national team, where he\u2019s been capped 18 times already, he\u2019s even partnered Mois\u00e9s Caicedo on occasion.  So we\u2019ll see how his development evolves from here.<\/p>\n<p id=\"kVrAiL\">Good luck, Kendry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea agreed to sign Kendry P\u00e1ez from Independiene del Valle in Ecuador two years ago when he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[468,461,66066,49339,35224,69061,1075,204,470,472,69060,54716,67447,471,1408,5824,25021,67443,1409,221,62,67444,469,35222,67,132,68,467],"class_list":{"0":"post-108162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ain","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news","11":"tag-chelsea-transfer-news-rumours","12":"tag-english-premier-league-transfers-news-rumors","13":"tag-ez","14":"tag-from","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-got","17":"tag-history","18":"tag-kendry","19":"tag-loan","20":"tag-multi-club","21":"tag-no","22":"tag-official","23":"tag-on","24":"tag-p","25":"tag-rc","26":"tag-sign","27":"tag-soccer","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-strasbourg","30":"tag-t","31":"tag-transfer-rumors","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-us","35":"tag-we"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114949167740755226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108162","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=108162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}