{"id":17835,"date":"2026-07-16T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17835"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:14:11","slug":"chelsea-star-receives-damning-verdict-as-alonso-looks-to-ship-out-player-who-didnt-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17835","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Star Receives Damning Verdict As Alonso Looks To Ship Out Player Who &#8220;Didn&#8217;t Do Anything&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong><em>Sky Sports<\/em> pundit Alan Smith says Alejandro Garnacho needs to get his career \u201cback on track\u201d after new Chelsea boss Xabi Alonso confirmed that the winger does not feature in his plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old is expected to be sold less than a year after his \u00a340m move from Manchester United. Speaking exclusively to <strong><em>Chelsea News<\/em><\/strong>  (courtesy of <em>Best Betting Sites UK<\/em>), Smith said Garnacho simply hasn\u2019t done enough:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t do anything really, did he? Flashes, but nothing. Surprised they bought him. Man United, I\u2019m sure, couldn\u2019t believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I don\u2019t know where his career is going. And I\u2019ll be hoping they can get him off the books. He\u2019s obviously on very good money, so that could be a problem. Talk about Roma being interested. But yeah, it just hasn\u2019t worked. He\u2019s got to have a good look at his career and see what he needs to do now to get it back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Where could Garnacho go?<\/h2>\n<p>As Smith mentions, Roma are one of the teams who have registered an interest in the Argentinian international, having proposed a loan with an obligation to buy if certain conditions are met.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, Chelsea are said to be seeking a permanent sale for \u20ac50m (\u00a343m), or at the very least, a loan with a mandatory purchase clause.<\/p>\n<h2>Will Chelsea replace him?<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"1ffbae35d432d0d71911ca2a0b209fbb\" v=\"f216f6d5d0b6ef819f6e02bf8357cefd\" image-id=\"prsiikuw56nP\" theme=\"iy-theme\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; aspect-ratio: 1.5; max-width: 5400px;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>There is no guarantee of a like-for-like replacement as Alonso doesn\u2019t generally deploy traditional wingers in his front three. He likes no.10s or no.9s who can play out wide.<\/p>\n<p>Some potential targets have been suggested, though, with West Ham\u2019s Crysencio Summerville, Bologna\u2019s Jonathan Rowe and Benfica\u2019s <strong>Andreas Schjelderup<\/strong> among the names under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are also big fans of Aston Villa\u2019s Morgan Rogers, but a switch to Stamford Bridge is said to be unlikely as the England international favours a move to Arsenal.<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Sports pundit Alan Smith says Alejandro Garnacho needs to get his career \u201cback on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17835","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\/17835","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=17835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}