{"id":337045,"date":"2017-07-17T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337045"},"modified":"2017-07-17T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:31:58","slug":"chelsea-completes-bakayoko-transfer-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337045","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea completes Bakayoko transfer [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have made their third signing of the summer in Tiemoue Bakayoko from Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old defensive midfielder has agreed a five-year contract with the Premier League champions, joining for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337046\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bakayoko-chelsea-signing-4.jpg\" alt=\"bakayoko-chelsea-signing-4\" width=\"898\" height=\"701\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bakayoko helped Monaco win the French Ligue 1 title last season as well as the UEFA Champions League semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337049\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bakayoko-chelsea-signing-1.jpg\" alt=\"bakayoko-chelsea-signing-1\" width=\"898\" height=\"701\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The France international will be aiming to make his Premier League debut on 12 August when Chelsea host Burnley at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337048\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bakayoko-chelsea-signing-6.jpg\" alt=\"bakayoko-chelsea-signing-6\" width=\"898\" height=\"701\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337047\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bakayoko-chelsea-signing-5.jpg\" alt=\"bakayoko-chelsea-signing-5\" width=\"898\" height=\"701\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337050\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bakayoko-chelsea-signing-2.jpg\" alt=\"bakayoko-chelsea-signing-2\" width=\"898\" height=\"701\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Credit: PremierLeague.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have made their third signing of the summer in Tiemoue Bakayoko from Monaco. The 22-year-old defensive midfielder has agreed a five-year contract with the Premier League champions, joining for an undisclosed fee. Bakayoko helped Monaco win the French Ligue 1 title last season as well as the UEFA Champions League semi-finals. The France international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[9372,851,9373,564],"class_list":["post-337045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-bakayoko","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-completes-bakayoko-transfer","tag-citi-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}