{"id":16918,"date":"2026-07-13T14:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16918"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:09:59","slug":"alonso-handpicks-uruguayan-star-to-replace-garnacho-as-blueco-close-to-agreeing-personal-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16918","title":{"rendered":"Alonso \u2018handpicks\u2019 Uruguayan star \u2018to replace Garnacho\u2019 as BlueCo \u2018close to agreeing personal terms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are on the verge of agreeing personal terms with Diego Daguerre, as new Blues manager Xabi Alonso gets involved in a deal to sign the Cerro Largo forward as a potential replacement for Alejandro Garnacho, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garnacho\u2019s days at Chelsea are numbered<\/strong>with the former Manchester United winger set to leave Stamford Bridge in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina international winger joined <strong>Chelsea<\/strong> from Man Utd in the summer of 2025, but he failed to make an impact at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho made 43 appearances in a Chelsea shirt, scoring just eight goals and providing only four assists.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer guru Fabrizio Romano reported last week that <strong>Chelsea have decided to sell Garnacho this summer<\/strong>with new manager Alonso backing the club\u2019s owners, BlueCo, in their stance.<\/p>\n<p>Romano posted on <em>X<\/em> at 12:37pm on July 11: \u201cUnderstand Chelsea value Garnacho at \u20ac50m for clubs abroad and \u00a345m for PL clubs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: Transfer rumour ranking: Man Utd to bag Tielemans bargain, Arsenal \u2018misled\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c#CFC ready to let him leave on permanent deal this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGarnacho is NOT training under Xabi Alonso as Chelsea work closely with his camp to find solution on exit, same as Andrey Santos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has now emerged that Alonso has already decided on a replacement for Garnacho.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea linked with Diego Daguerre<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to Alex Goldberg, <strong>Alonso<\/strong> wants Chelsea to sign Diego Daguerre in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"c78749ece7fd074ea5dc1889e7c53f0f\" image-id=\"esmeUKVMACWF\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are said to be close to agreeing personal terms with the 21-year-old Uruguayan forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: Spurs transfer frenzy threatens unbeatable Chelsea record with expensive steps down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daguerre\u2019s club, Cerro Largo, want \u00a33million for Daguerre, according to Goldberg, who has 48,000 followers on <em>X<\/em> and does a podcast with Troy Deeney and Asmir Begovic.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg posted on <em>X<\/em> at 12:35am on July 13: \u201cEXCL: Chelsea close to agreeing personal terms with Cerro Largo attacker, Diego Daguerre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c21yo handpicked by Xabi Alonso to replace Alejandro Garnacho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChelsea offered Garnacho in return but Uruguayan side have no interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWant \u00a33m instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: Xabi Alonso insists Chelsea sign \u20ac50m Spanish star after first offer rejected<\/strong><\/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 on the verge of agreeing personal terms with Diego Daguerre, as new Blues&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16918","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\/16918","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=16918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}