{"id":659,"date":"2026-04-21T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=659"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:35:33","slug":"petit-says-6x-pl-winner-would-be-a-great-signing-for-chelsea-but-he-cant-see-it-happening-for-one-big-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Petit Says 6x PL Winner Would Be &#8220;A Great Signing For Chelsea&#8221; But He Can&#8217;t See It Happening For One Big Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Ex-Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Petit says Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva would be a \u201cgreat\u201d addition to the Blues\u2019 squad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a lack of experience in the club\u2019s first-team ranks, and while Petit thinks Silva\u2019s availability on a free transfer this summer would be a perfect opportunity to recruit a six-time Premier League winner, he can\u2019t see the player being interested in the move:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBernardo Silva would be a great signing, but if I\u2019m Silva, I\u2019m not going to Chelsea. No, I\u2019m definitely not going over there. Remember two years ago, I think Guardiola wanted Silva to leave the club. He was not even in the first team sometimes. And it changed everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, he\u2019s been such an amazing player for City and the Premier League. He\u2019s so intelligent. His movement, his tactics. And I really like him as a person, too. I think he\u2019s a very, very important player both on and off the pitch. He\u2019s an intelligent guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a question of money; he has so much money as well. If he goes to Chelsea, he will have nightmares. He will have trouble sleeping at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Silva is likely to move abroad<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1076371156\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>The 31-year-old has spoken out over the last month to say that he has never really liked living in England, citing the weather and the food as being \u201cvery different\u201d to his homeland, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed to be one of the main motivations for him leaving City this summer. While he has enjoyed his professional career in this country, he is looking for a change in his personal life. That means a switch to another Premier League club is very unlikely.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea are expected to target experience<\/h2>\n<p>While Silva may not be making the move to Stamford Bridge, there are several well-sourced stories suggesting that the club will change tack in the transfer market and add more <strong>seasoned pros<\/strong> to the squad.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen what that will mean in reality, but it appears Petit\u2019s recommendation of Silva is not way off the mark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the Chelsea First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Petit says Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva would be a \u201cgreat\u201d addition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}