{"id":186895,"date":"2025-06-15T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186895\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:30:10","slug":"alejandro-garnacho-chooses-next-destination-with-exit-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186895\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro Garnacho chooses next destination with exit set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Garnacho is set to leave Manchester United and the winger\u2019s preference for where he plays next has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man Utd<\/a>\u00a0fully intend to offload\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/alejandro-garnacho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garnacho<\/a>\u00a0this summer. The Argentina international is among three other high profile forwards the club aim to sell to generate capital for new signings. The others are Marcus Rashford, Antony and Jadon Sancho.<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho\u2019s attitude came under the microscope during the last six months of the season. He described United\u2019s campaign as \u201cs***\u201d following the Europa League final defeat to Tottenham and a number of ill-advised social media posts from he and his entourage have not gone down well at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Garnacho was actually Man Utd\u2019s second most effective player from an offensive standpoint last term, behind only Bruno Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being just 20 years of age, Garnacho racked up 21 goal contributions (11 goals, 10 assists) across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, there is no shortage of interest in Garnacho, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\/man-utd-slap-affordable-new-price-alejandro-garnacho-three-premier-league-clubs-circle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napoli, AC Milan, Bayer Leverkusen and Atletico Madrid all circling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, transfer guru Fabrizio Romano has now revealed where Garnacho wants to play next season and it makes grim reading for the aforementioned sides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlejandro Garnacho\u2019s priority is to stay in Premier League while he\u2019s set to leave Man United this summer\u201d <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1934251868852531504\" target=\"_blank\">wrote Romano on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite Bayer Leverkusen interest and Ten Hag\u2019s appreciation, the deal looks complicated and Premier League is the player\u2019s first choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three options in Premier League<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea looked into a deal for Garnacho in January, though failure to shift Christopher Nkunku meant the Blues did not act.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are still firm admirers of the winger but are now prioritising a move for Borussia Dortmund\u2019s Jamie Gittens instead.<\/p>\n<p>Enzo Maresca\u2019s side bid \u20ac50m for the Englishman last week. Dortmund rejected the offer, though Chelsea intend to try again.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, journalist Gaston Edul \u2013 a highly respected source on Argentine players \u2013 recently claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/two-massive-man-utd-rivals-open-alejandro-garnacho-transfer-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal had enquired into signing Garnacho<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners are on the hunt for a new striker and left winger this summer, with Garnacho obviously ticking the latter category.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Aston Villa are understood to be weighing up another raid on Man Utd after experiencing success with their Marcus Rashford loan in the second half of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding cost, reports continue to differ on how much it will take to prise Garnacho out of Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Some have claimed a figure as low as \u00a350m can seal a deal, while others have pointed to a loftier \u00a370m valuation.<\/p>\n<p>Given Garnacho is classified as a homegrown player at Old Trafford, the proceeds from his sale will be logged as \u2018pure profit\u2019 on the books and greatly enhance United\u2019s spending power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest Man Utd news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\u26ab\ufe0f\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\/hugo-ekitike-man-utd-eintracht-frankfurt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man Utd \u2018optimistic\u2019 about signing \u2018perfect centre-forward\u2019 after \u2018positive contacts\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\u26ab\ufe0f\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\/ratcliffe-to-save-90m-pounds-with-four-huge-summer-exits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man Utd to save \u00a390m with FOUR huge exits in massive Ratcliffe boost<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\u26ab\ufe0f\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\/transfer-news-reject-swap-deal-for-antony-involving-former-aston-villa-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man Utd REJECT \u2018swap deal\u2019 for Antony involving former Aston Villa star<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\u26ab\ufe0f\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\/amorim-identifies-two-elite-mbeumo-alternatives-after-brutal-hijack-blow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amorim demands one of TWO elite Man Utd alternatives to Mbeumo after brutal hijack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUIZ: Think you know Alejandro Garnacho?\u00a0\u2b07\ufe0f<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alejandro Garnacho is set to leave Manchester United and the winger\u2019s preference for where he plays next has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[1682,160,161,102,885,162,94,163,98,79,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alejandro-garnacho","9":"tag-all-the-news","10":"tag-arsenal","11":"tag-aston-villa","12":"tag-chelsea","13":"tag-english-premier-league","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-manchester-united","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-transfer-news","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114688572089222074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}