{"id":2215,"date":"2026-08-12T21:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:09:05","slug":"chelsea-complete-signing-of-spanish-defender-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea complete signing of Spanish defender | Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chelsea have continued their summer of spending by completing the signing of full-back Pep Chavarria from Spanish side Rayo Vallecano.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Blues confirmed on Wednesday that they had finalised a move for the 28-year-old<\/a>, who impressed in La Liga last term.<\/p>\n

Chavarria has signed a long-term contract at Stamford Bridge that will run until the end of the 2030\/31 campaign, in-keeping with Chelsea\u2019s policy of tying players down to long-term deals that the club has adopted in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

Since Chelsea were taken over by their current American owners back in 2022, the west London side have also adopted a policy of primarily signing talented young players.<\/p>\n

This summer, however, the London outfit have also been adding experience to new manager Xabi Alonso\u2019s squad, and Chavarria\u2019s arrival will also add to that; the Blues have already signed 35-year-old Danny Welbeck and 36-year-old Jordan Henderson this summer.<\/p>\n

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Morgan Rogers is one of several players to have joined Chelsea so far this summer (Photo: PA Images\/Alamy)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Chavarria first announced himself at the top level in Spain during a spell with Zaragoza between 2020 and 2022, before joining Vallecano ahead of the 2o22\/23 campaign.<\/p>\n

During his time with Vallecano, the left-back made a total of 125 appearances in all competitions, scoring twice and providing eight assists.<\/p>\n

Chelsea have spent heavily so far this summer, with the likes of Morgan Rogers, Maxence Lacroix, Geovany Quenda and Marcos Palestra all having arrived at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

Welbeck and Henderson have also joined Alonso\u2019s squad, while Trevoh Chalobah and Alejandro Garnacho are among those to have departed SW6.<\/p>\n

Chavarria is set to compete with Jorrel Hato for a starting spot in Alonso\u2019s side, with the ex-Real Madrid boss expected to deploy a back three when the season starts.<\/p>\n

The Blues play Spanish side Real Sociedad in their final pre-season friendly of the summer on Saturday, but it isn\u2019t clear whether or not Chavarria will feature in the game.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea have continued their summer of spending by completing the signing of full-back Pep Chavarria from Spanish side Rayo Vallecano.\u00a0 The Blues confirmed on Wednesday that they had finalised a move for the 28-year-old, who impressed in La Liga last term. Chavarria has signed a long-term contract at Stamford Bridge that will run until the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[335,668,339,340,337,4172],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-chelsea","tag-complete","tag-defender","tag-shoot","tag-signing","tag-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}