{"id":8553,"date":"2017-07-22T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2017-07-22T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T13:05:08","slug":"chelsea-announce-signing-of-morata-on-a-5-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/07\/22\/chelsea-announce-signing-of-morata-on-a-5-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea announce signing of Morata on a 5-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have announced the signing of \u00c1lvaro Morata from Real Madrid on a five-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Spain striker is the Premier League champions\u2019 third major signing of the summer, following the arrival of Antonio R\u00fcdiger from Roma and Tiemou\u00e9 Bakayoko from Monaco and reportedly costs in the region of \u00a358m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy to be here. It\u2019s an incredible emotion to be part of this big club,\u201d said Morata, 24. \u201cI am looking to work hard, score as many goals as I can and to win as many trophies as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Morata is expected to be a direct replacement for his compatriot Diego Costa, who has been told by the manager, Antonio Conte, that he no longer has a future at the club and is expected shortly to join Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, from whom he moved to Chelsea in July 2014 for \u00a332m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have announced the signing of &Aacute;lvaro Morata from Real Madrid on a five-year contract. &nbsp; The Spain striker is the Premier League champions&rsquo; third major signing of the summer, following the arrival of Antonio R&uuml;diger from Roma and Tiemou&eacute; Bakayoko from Monaco and reportedly costs in the region of &pound;58m. &nbsp; &ldquo;I am so happy to be here. It&rsquo;s an incredible emotion to be part of this big club,&rdquo; said Morata, 24. &ldquo;I am looking to work hard, score as many goals as I can and to win as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8555,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions\/8555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}