{"id":29285,"date":"2025-08-28T14:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ac-milan-signs-nkunku-chelsea-agrees-to-transfer-for-e42m\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:43:23","slug":"ac-milan-signs-nkunku-chelsea-agrees-to-transfer-for-e42m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/ac-milan-signs-nkunku-chelsea-agrees-to-transfer-for-e42m\/","title":{"rendered":"AC Milan signs Nkunku: Chelsea agrees to transfer for \u20ac42M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AC Milan secures Christopher Nkunku from Chelsea<\/h2>\n\n\nAC Milan have reached an agreement to sign Chelsea striker Christopher Nkunku for 42 million euros ($49 million), according to sources close to the negotiation.\n\nThe agreement also includes a percentage for Chelsea on any future transfer of the player.\n\nThe 27-year-old footballer, who is no longer in the plans of the Stamford Bridge team, still has to pass the medical tests and agree on personal terms.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Possible transfers:<\/strong> Spurs are close to signing Xavi Simons from Leipzig.<\/li><li><strong>In the spotlight:<\/strong> Chelsea close to closing a deal for Garnacho for 40 million pounds.<\/li><li><strong>Chelsea Champions League draw:<\/strong> Barcelona, Bayern Munich and more.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nThis move to Serie A ends two frustrating years for the player, following his arrival at Chelsea from RB Leipzig in 2023 for \u00a352 million ($70 million). Injuries affected his first season, and then he struggled to break into the team under Enzo Maresca.\n\nNkunku has not been called up for Chelsea&#8217;s first two Premier League matches, as Maresca has made it clear that he is not part of his plans.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0828%2Fr1537998_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Nkunku\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Christopher Nkunku ha perdido protagonismo en el Chelsea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nInitially signed to solve the lack of a proven goalscorer, Nkunku suffered a serious knee injury during a pre-season match against Borussia Dortmund, shortly after joining the club. In his first season, he only played 11 matches in the Premier League.\n\nLast season, under Maresca&#8217;s management, he had few opportunities to start in the league, and most of his appearances were in cup competitions and in the club&#8217;s successful Conference League campaign.\n\nOnce the handover is complete, Chelsea will have more room to finalize other deals before the summer transfer window closes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan secures Christopher Nkunku from Chelsea AC Milan have reached an agreement to sign Chelsea striker Christopher Nkunku for 42 million euros ($49 million), according to sources close to the negotiation. The agreement also includes a percentage for Chelsea on any future transfer of the player. The 27-year-old footballer, who is no longer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3114,220,7993,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-29285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ac-milan","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-nkunku","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}