{"id":257396,"date":"2026-08-12T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/chelsea-sign-chavarria-as-replacement-for-cucurella-thescore\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:28:38","slug":"chelsea-sign-chavarria-as-replacement-for-cucurella-thescore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/chelsea-sign-chavarria-as-replacement-for-cucurella-thescore\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea sign Chavarria as replacement for Cucurella | theScore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Article content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Chelsea signed Pep Chavarria from Rayo Vallecano on Wednesday as a replacement for left back Marc Cucurella.<\/p>\n<p>Cucurella joined Real Madrid at the start of the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea now has another Spaniard at left back, with Chavarria signing a deal until 2031. He helped Rayo reach the Conference League final last season and finish eighth in La Liga for the second straight year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a dream for me as Chelsea are one of the biggest clubs in the world,\u201d Chavarria said. \u201cIt is a big opportunity but I am prepared and will work hard to help the team achieve success.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Chelsea, Pep. \u2615\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oq1KPncIzs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oq1KPncIzs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/2087449317736866263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 12, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Under new manager Xavi Alonso, Chelsea has also signed defenders Maxence Lacroix, Marco Palestra and Geovany Quenda, midfielders Morgan Rogers, Jordan Henderson and Valentin Barco, and striker Danny Welbeck this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/epl\/news\/3578692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Chelsea signed Pep Chavarria from Rayo Vallecano on Wednesday as a replacement for left back Marc Cucurella. Cucurella joined Real Madrid at the start of the offseason. Chelsea now has another Spaniard at left back, with Chavarria signing a deal until 2031. He helped Rayo reach the Conference League final last season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}