{"id":69957,"date":"2025-07-08T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69957"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:50:27","slug":"joao-felix-hints-at-possible-return-to-benfica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/08\/joao-felix-hints-at-possible-return-to-benfica\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Felix Hints at Possible Return to Benfica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea forward Joao Felix has expressed a strong desire to return to his boyhood club, Benfica.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Portuguese star, who joined Chelsea permanently after a loan spell, struggled to make an impact and spent the second half of the 2024\/25 season on loan at AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>He was recently left out of Chelsea\u2019s squad for the ongoing FIFA Club World Cup in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenfica is my favourite team; it\u2019s my home,\u201d Felix said. \u201cOne day I\u2019ll return. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s now or in a few years, but I\u2019d be happy to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his interest, a return may be complicated by his high wages and potential transfer fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Chelsea forward Joao Felix has expressed a strong desire to return to his boyhood club, Benfica. The 25-year-old Portuguese star, who joined Chelsea permanently after a loan spell, struggled to make an impact and spent the second half of the 2024\/25 season on loan at AC Milan. He was recently left out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69960,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69957\/revisions\/69960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}