{"id":15940,"date":"2026-07-10T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15940"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:18:29","slug":"fabrizio-romano-man-utd-good-news-as-chelsea-star-can-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15940","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano: Man Utd good news as Chelsea star &#8216;can leave&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are ready to wave goodbye to one of their recent signings in a permanent sale, and why that\u2019s good news for Manchester United has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man Utd<\/strong> and <strong>Chelsea<\/strong> are about to preside over a \u00a350m transfer, with Andrey Santos swapping Stamford Bridge for Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Personal terms are fully agreed, as is the club-to-club deal, which is worth a total of \u00a350m (\u00a348m plus \u00a32m in add-ons).<\/p>\n<p>Santos was <strong>given permission to undergo a medical today<\/strong> (Thursday) and all being well, will become a Manchester United player in short order.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Brazilian isn\u2019t the only player with a United connection who could leave west London this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days, reports from far and wide have claimed Chelsea are willing to wave goodbye to <strong>Alejandro Garnacho<\/strong> after just one season on their books.<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho joined Chelsea for \u00a340m last summer, though failed to make any meaningful sort of impact last term, and it could be one and done at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest from transfer guru, Fabrizio Romano, Garnacho \u2018can leave\u2019 Chelsea this summer, and movements regarding his sale have already started.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ NEXT: <\/strong><\/em><strong>Chelsea make fresh bid for next signing with personal terms \u2018agreed\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea offloading Alejandro Garnacho after one season<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Romano wrote on X<\/em>:\u00a0\u2018Alejandro Garnacho can leave Chelsea this summer and he\u2019s not untouchable.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"1ffbae35d432d0d71911ca2a0b209fbb\" image-id=\"prsioW0j5b58\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018In case of good proposal on permanent deal, #CFC ready to open doors to exit with initial movements started in terms of clubs keen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Garnacho can leave after just one season at Chelsea.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Why this development is good news for Man Utd relates to the terms of the agreement they negotiated with Chelsea last year.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Garnacho sale will help Man Utd financially<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As part of the deal that sent Garnacho to the capital, Man Utd inserted a 10 percent sell-on clause.<\/p>\n<p>As such, they\u2019ll be due a 10 percent slice of the sale price, and our colleagues over on TEAMtalk have <strong>shed light on how big of a fee Chelsea are now demanding<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Their insider, Graeme Bailey, brought news of Chelsea remarkably valuing Garnacho at a gigantic \u00a390m.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the chances of any side bidding that sizeable sum are slim, and sources told Bailey the magic number that could get Chelsea\u2019s approval is actually \u00a360m.<\/p>\n<p>A sale on that scale would net Man Utd \u00a36m, and the Red Devils are also due to pocket another handy chunk of change if and when Marseille sell Mason Greenwood to Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>DON\u2019T MISS: <\/strong><\/em><strong>Man Utd target French midfielder if Ederson deal falls through \u2013 \u2018enquiries made\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding destinations, TEAMtalk reported on Napoli\u2019s interest, though Chelsea\u2019s best chance of collecting \u00a360m comes by way of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Interest from leading Saudi Pro League sides is growing, and perhaps crucially, Garnacho is NOT averse to making a move to the middle east at this important stage in his career.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are ready to wave goodbye to one of their recent signings in a permanent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15940","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\/15940","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=15940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}