{"id":381315,"date":"2025-08-29T00:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381315\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:44:17","slug":"manchester-united-chelsea-agree-40m-alejandro-garnacho-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381315\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United, Chelsea agree \u00a340M Alejandro Garnacho deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United<\/a> and Chelsea<\/a> have agreed a deal for winger Alejandro Garnacho<\/a>, sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old is set to move to Stamford Bridge for a fixed fee of \u00a340 million. United will also receive 10% of any future transfer.<\/p>\n

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Garnacho will undergo a medical in London on Friday before signing a contract until 2032.<\/p>\n

United sources have told ESPN that Chelsea’s initial offer for the Argentina<\/a> international was \u00a325 million. United have been able to negotiate a higher fee, although it falls below their valuation of \u00a350m.<\/p>\n

Garnacho was axed from Ruben Amorim’s first team squad this summer and missed the preseason tour of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was critical of the Portuguese coach after being left on the bench for the Europa League final against Tottenham in May.<\/p>\n

The forward has been training away from the main group at Carrington alongside other members of the so-called “bomb squad” Jadon Sancho<\/a>, Antony<\/a> and Tyrell Malacia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Garnacho leaves Old Trafford having come through the club’s academy to make 144 senior appearances. He scored 26 goals including in the 2024 FA Cup final against Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was part of United’s FA Youth Cup winning team in 2022 and was named the club’s young player of the year in the same season.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s James Olley contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United and Chelsea have agreed a deal for winger Alejandro Garnacho, sources have told ESPN. The 21-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-381315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115109289305456237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381315","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=381315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}