{"id":214290,"date":"2026-03-16T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214290"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:13:24","slug":"report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=214290","title":{"rendered":"Report: Chelsea open talks to sign 16-year-old Nigerian midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English Premier League side Chelsea have begun talks to sign Flying Eagles midfielder Abduljelil Kamaldeen, Soccernet.ng reports.\u00a0 Discussions are now underway between the English club and Kamaldeen&#8217;s representatives. Per Footy-Africa, the 16-year-old recently impressed during a trial period, which has prompted Chelsea to show concrete interest in securing his signature&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2026\/01\/chelsea-16-year-old-midfielder.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Premier League side Chelsea have begun talks to sign Flying Eagles midfielder Abduljelil Kamaldeen,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder.png",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder-768x432.png",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder.png",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder.png",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder.png",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder.png",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder-825x575.png",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/214290-report-chelsea-open-talks-to-sign-16-year-old-nigerian-midfielder-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/214291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}