{"id":9924,"date":"2013-08-23T10:51:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/willian-chelsea-set-to-sign-tottenham-target-for\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:51:06","slug":"willian-chelsea-set-to-sign-tottenham-target-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/willian-chelsea-set-to-sign-tottenham-target-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Willian: Chelsea set to sign Tottenham target for \u00a330m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Chelsea have agreed a \u00a330m deal to sign attacking midfielder Willian from Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala, subject to a work permit hearing.}}<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Brazilian was close to joining Tottenham after having a medical on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But it is understood Chelsea made their move at around 18:00 BST on Thursday, with a fee and personal terms agreed within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Willian will have a medical before his work permit hearing next week.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer was made possible after Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, whose fellow Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov owns Anzhi, intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Willian expected to join Tottenham, but when the Blues stepped in, he felt the chance to play Champions League football was too good to reject.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the player said Chelsea have made enquiries or offers for his services in every transfer window since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Willian will become the Stamford Bridge club&#8217;s third major summer acquisition following the arrivals of Germany forward Andre Schurrle and Netherlands midfielder Marco van Ginkel.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, Blues manager Jose Mourinho indicated that Willian would choose Chelsea over Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the Brazilian had chosen to join his club, Mourinho nodded.<br \/>\nThe Portuguese added: &#8220;I know what the player wants, so in this moment we cannot hide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3446 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sde.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Chelsea have agreed a \u00a330m deal to sign attacking midfielder Willian from Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala, subject to a work permit hearing.}} The 25-year-old Brazilian was close to joining Tottenham after having a medical on Wednesday. But it is understood Chelsea made their move at around 18:00 BST on Thursday, with a fee and personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}