Aston Villa confirm signing of Alejandro Garnacho with £43m Chelsea clause
Chelsea have sent Alejandro Garnacho to Aston Villa ahead of this coming Premier League season, less than 12 months after signing the Argentina international from Manchester United
Alejandro Garnacho will spent this coming season on loan at Aston Villa(Image: Getty Images)
Aston Villa have announced the signing of Alejandro Garnacho on a season-long loan from Chelsea. Their deal includes a £43million conditional obligation to buy clause based on how many appearances the Argentina international makes.
Garnacho, 22, moves on from the Blues less than 12 months after they spent £40million on signing him from Manchester United. They stand to benefit from a 10% sell-on clause should the move become permanent, with Chelsea believing that the conditions to do so are easily reachable.
The winger made 43 appearances for them last season. However, just over half of those were from the start.
Villa have form when it comes to these types of deals, with Harvey Elliott’s loan from Liverpool not becoming permanent last season. They had an obligation to sign the England international for £35million obligation if he made ten appearances across all competitions, and only played him nine times.
Chelsea, too, have previously avoided having to sign a loanee permanently. They paid United a £5 million penalty fee 12 months ago so that they did not have to keep Jadon Sancho.
The winger went on to join Villa on loan last season. Garnacho now effectively replaces his former team-mate in Birmingham.
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That succession of former United wingers joining Villa on loan goes back even further. Marcus Rashford spent the second half of the 2024/25 season under Unai Emery.
Garnacho will hope the move works out more like Rashford’s spell, rather than Sancho’s. Rashford managed to get a move to Barcelona off the back of his time at Villa Park.
Sancho, meanwhile, is still without a club after his United contract expired at the end of last season. There is no such end in sight for Chelsea if Garnacho does not stay at Villa, with six years still left on his deal.
Emery has said in Villa’s statement announcing the move: “We are delighted with Alejandro. He is so talented, young and he showed us his wish to help our project. We are really happy.”
Villa teased the move on social media by saying: “We already knew claret and blue looked good on him…” That appears to be a reference to when Garnacho wore a Villa shirt with Rashford’s name and number on the back last year.
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