{"id":20466,"date":"2026-07-23T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=20466"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:40:44","slug":"aston-villa-battle-as-roma-for-garnacho-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=20466","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa battle AS Roma for Garnacho signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Aston Villa are in negotiations to sign Alejandro Garnacho from Chelsea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unai Emery has made a move for Garnacho as Aston Villa target a left-sided forward, following Morgan Rogers\u2019 record \u00a3117m move to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers\u2019 arrival has further pushed Garnacho down the pecking order with Chelsea willing to sanction his sale for a fee of around \u00a342.7m.<\/p>\n<p>Villa\u2019s preference is a loan deal, though Chelsea want an obligatory purchase clause included to allow his exit.<\/p>\n<p>AS Roma have already had an offer turned down with the Italian side\u2019s permanent fee not enough to satisfy Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Garnacho joined Chelsea for \u00a340m from Manchester United last summer and scored eight goals in 43 games for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, he does not feature in Xabi Alonso\u2019s plans for the new season and has not returned for pre-season, as he weighs up his options. According to Sky Sports, Garnacho also has suitors in the Saudi Pro League.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa are also understood to be considering Chelsea teammate Nicolas Jackson in a separate deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Morgan Rogers \u2018really excited\u2019 as Chelsea beat Arsenal to record-breaking transfer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Napoli make loan approach to sign Chelsea centre-back<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa are in negotiations to sign Alejandro Garnacho from Chelsea. Unai Emery has made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20466","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\/20466","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=20466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}