{"id":334447,"date":"2025-08-11T00:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334447\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:34:15","slug":"revealed-alejandro-garnachos-stance-on-possible-chelsea-move-after-man-united-set-asking-price-for-bomb-squad-member-as-blues-consider-defensive-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334447\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Alejandro Garnacho&#8217;s stance on possible Chelsea move after Man United set asking price for &#8216;bomb squad&#8217; member &#8211; as Blues consider defensive signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By SIMON JONES and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-2961\/abdi-rashid.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABDI RASHID, SPORTS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  17:51 EDT, 10 August 2025   |  Updated:  17:51 EDT, 10 August 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/alejandro-garnacho\/index.html\" id=\"mol-26c05040-7634-11f0-8f09-870bf23487a3\" rel=\"noopener\">Alejandro Garnacho<\/a> has set his mind on a move to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/chelsea\/index.html\" id=\"mol-26ba35c0-7634-11f0-8f09-870bf23487a3\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> after Manchester United revealed their asking price.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Red Devils have been looking to offload Garnacho all summer, with the Argentine international one of the unwanted players placed into a &#8216;bomb squad&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Garnacho was told by<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/manchester-united\/index.html\" id=\"mol-20cc2840-6d05-11f0-879e-413cf26fd80a\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0United<\/a> boss <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/ruben-amorim\/index.html\" id=\"mol-20d465a0-6d05-11f0-879e-413cf26fd80a\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruben Amorim<\/a> to find a new club in May, after the winger was unhappy to start on the bench in the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/europa-league\/index.html\" id=\"mol-20d6af90-6d05-11f0-879e-413cf26fd80a\" rel=\"noopener\">Europa League<\/a>\u00a0final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Chelsea hold strong interest in the 20-year-old, who is believed to be valued at \u00a350million &#8211; significantly less than the \u00a370m that United initially wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Blues&#8217; hierarchy have no concerns over his character after doing their homework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In total Garnacho has played 144 games for United and has scored 26 goals, while he has provided 22 assists.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8983cb80ecba4ec2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101089789-0-image-m-21_1754860389287.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Alejandro Garnacho has set his mind on a move to Chelsea after Man United set their asking price\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Alejandro Garnacho has set his mind on a move to Chelsea after Man United set their asking price<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5611f557552a666f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101089919-0-image-a-22_1754860611878.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Chelsea's\u00a0hierarchy have no concerns over his character after doing their homework\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Chelsea&#8217;s\u00a0hierarchy have no concerns over his character after doing their homework<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He won the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/fa_cup\/index.html\" id=\"mol-f2822fc0-73ad-11f0-aeba-3b455d9b4853\" rel=\"noopener\">FA Cup<\/a> with United in the 2023-24 campaign and the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/efl-cup\/index.html\" id=\"mol-f281e1a0-73ad-11f0-aeba-3b455d9b4853\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">EFL Cup<\/a>\u00a0in the previous season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Stamford Bridge club are still assessing whether to add another centre back for Enzo Maresca but intend to sell before making more buys.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Nicolas Jackson remains an option for the likes of Newcastle while Christopher Nkunku is wanted by former club RB LEIPZIG as part of negotiations over Xavi Simons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Nkunku has a number of options but Chelsea would be open to reducing the fee for Simons by including the French forward in any deal. Leipzig are also keen on Chelsea&#8217;s Tyrique George.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DailyMailSport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Revealed: Alejandro Garnacho&#8217;s stance on possible Chelsea move after Man United set asking price for &#8216;bomb squad&#8217; member &#8211; as Blues consider defensive signing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By SIMON JONES and ABDI RASHID, SPORTS REPORTER Published: 17:51 EDT, 10 August 2025 | Updated: 17:51 EDT,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[1682,885,92,94,98,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alejandro-garnacho","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115007328692116664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334447","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=334447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}