Chelsea transfer news LIVE: £34.3m Pedro Neto replacement, defender done deal, latest updates today

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Xabi Alonso's men are successful their last hours of mentation for Monday's Premier League West London derby against Fulham, anterior to which outgoings person dominated the Stamford Bridge transportation talk.

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Today's Chelsea transportation headlines

Why Joao Pedro signed caller woody arsenic 2034 hold confirmed

Chelsea contacted by Serie A clubs implicit attacking duo

Chelsea transportation quality today: What's happening connected August 23?

One of the astir pleasing pieces of Chelsea concern quality connected August 22 was Joao Pedro's declaration hold until June 2034, with the 24-year-old Brazilian citing his narration with the squad and Xabi Alonso's ambition arsenic the reasons for committing his semipermanent aboriginal to Stamford Bridge.

Pedro was Chelsea's Player of the Season successful 2025-26 aft scoring 23 goals and contributing 9 assists successful 53 appearances, including 15 Premier League goals, and helium is understood to person been rewarded with wages approaching the £200,000 per week earned by Wesley Fofana and Reece James, up from £125,000.

His declaration renewal makes Levi Colwill the adjacent precedence successful Chelsea's interior planning, with Fofana and Colwill some successful the 2029 expiry radical and the latter's value to Alonso's strategy making him the earthy adjacent focus.

Staying successful defence, Benoit Badiashile's departure was besides confirmed by the club, with the France centre-back joining Napoli connected loan, a determination that satisfies Chelsea's request to make accounting abstraction and springiness the 25-year-old first-team shot aft a peripheral year.

Further forward, Jamie Gittens and Marc Guiu are absorbing 2 Serie A giants, portion Nicolas Jackson and Liam Delap stay 2 different evident candidates for departure fixed some person been grooming distant from the first-team radical and are considered surplus to requirements.

Jackson's astir apt Premier League destination remains Aston Villa, wherever Unai Emery is simply a known admirer and wherever an Ollie Watkins departure to Saudi Arabia would make an opening for the Senegal planetary connected a imperishable basis.

Despite already bringing successful Morgan Rogers and Geovany Quenda, a drawstring of attacking exits - including that of Pedro Neto - could besides trigger a determination for Juventus' Francisco Conceicao, formerly linked with Liverpool and Manchester United.