{"id":21099,"date":"2026-07-24T22:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21099"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:29:14","slug":"garnacho-joins-villa-on-loan-from-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21099","title":{"rendered":"Garnacho joins Villa on loan from Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea winger Alejandro Garnacho has joined Aston Villa on loan for the 2026-27 season, with a view to a permanent move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The deal for the 22-year-old Argentine includes a clause that will trigger a permanent transfer next summer if certain conditions, including appearance targets, are met.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea expect those criteria to be reached, which would net them their \u00a343m valuation for the player.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United are set to receive 10% of any eventual transfer fee as part of the deal that brought him to Stamford Bridge last September for \u00a340m.<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho struggled to make an impact during his time with the Blues, scoring just once in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>His departure follows Chelsea\u2019s \u00a3117m signing of forward Morgan Rogers from Villa earlier this week, alongside the arrival of winger Geovany Quenda from Sporting Lisbon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #1b4f9c; color: white; border-radius: 12px; padding: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); flex-wrap: nowrap;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.commentwrap --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/themify_builder_content --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea winger Alejandro Garnacho has joined Aston Villa on loan for the 2026-27 season, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21099","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\/21099","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=21099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}