{"id":15536,"date":"2026-07-08T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15536"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:17:48","slug":"chelsea-ready-to-sell-garnacho-after-underwhelming-debut-season-two-champions-league-clubs-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15536","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea ready to sell Garnacho after underwhelming debut season, two Champions League clubs circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-blocks\">\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Chelsea are willing to listen to offers for winger Alejandro Garnacho, amid interest from two unnamed Champions League clubs.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">The West Londoners are prepared to offload Garnacho just one year on from his \u00a340m move to the club from Manchester United.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Garnacho scored one Premier League goal and added four assists, with the 22-year-old afforded only 14 league starts. He was not included in Argentina&#8217;s 2026 World Cup squad after a disappointing debut campaign.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">As a result, Chelsea will entertain offers for the winger. The Athletic are reporting that Chelsea are aware of interest in the Argentine from two clubs set to compete in next season&#8217;s Champions League.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Napoli have previously expressed interest in signing Garnacho and have secured their place in Europe&#8217;s elite competition.<\/div>\n<p>Chelsea are only willing to allow Garnacho to leave on a permanent transfer and will not consider loan approaches. Manchester United will also be keeping an eye on the situation, having inserted a 10% sell-on clause in the deal that took Garnacho to London last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are hopeful that the club can, at least, recoup their \u00a340m investment last summer, as funds are sought to invest under new head coach Xabi Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard wants to sign a central midfielder and centre-back in the current window, while talks are ongoing for Rayo Vallecano left-back Pep Chavarria. Crystal Palace defender Maxence Lacroix and Como&#8217;s Jacobo Ramon have been named as centre-back targets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are willing to listen to offers for winger Alejandro Garnacho, amid interest from two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}