Chelsea have agreed a \u00a340m fee to sign Manchester United forward Alejandro Garnacho.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Argentina international was told to find a new club by head coach Ruben Amorim at the end of last season.<\/p>\n
Sources from United say the initial Chelsea offer was \u00a325m, but Garnacho’s transfer – which includes a 10% sell-on clause – will now be the club’s fourth largest ever sale after Cristiano Ronaldo, Romelu Lukaku and Angel di Maria.<\/p>\n
Chelsea will have spent more than \u00a3500m, including add-on clauses, on wingers in just over three years since Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital bought the club. <\/p>\n
It will be more than \u00a3650m with strikers included – again with add-ons – but there have been significant player sales, with Chelsea likely to fully balance the books this summer on departures.<\/p>\n
Garnacho’s move comes as forward Christopher Nkunku, 27, closes in on a move from Chelsea to AC Milan.<\/p>\n
Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson is also in talks over an initial loan switch to Bayern Munich, which could include an obligation to buy the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n
Player sales are important to Chelsea this summer because of Uefa sanctions, which included a fine of 31m euros (\u00a326.7m), but also a requirement to maintain a “positive transfer balance” in this window to register new signings for the Champions League.<\/p>\n
The imminent transfer of Nkunku for an initial \u00a332m means the Blues will have banked at least \u00a3263.2m – minus add-ons and future fees – which is a Premier League record for player sales in a summer window.<\/p>\n
They had already surpassed their previous highest total of \u00a3215.9m, set in 2023, prior to the confirmation of the Frenchman’s departure.<\/p>\n
Garnacho held talks with Chelsea in January when his priority became a move to Stamford Bridge and United initially wanted \u00a360m for him.<\/p>\n
As a homegrown player, having joined United’s youth system from Atletico Madrid as a 16-year-old in 2020, the fee will also be important towards meeting the Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR). <\/p>\n
The Old Trafford club have already spent \u00a3200m on a new forward line of Benjamin Sesko, Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo. <\/p>\n
Garnacho’s last competitive game for United was May’s Europa League final – after which he questioned Amorim’s decision not to start him in 1-0 defeat by Tottenham.<\/p>\n
Although he did go on the club’s post-season tour of Asia, he was not selected for the three-match summer trip to the United States. <\/p>\n
Garnacho was ordered to train at different times to Amorim’s squad, along with fellow outcasts Tyrell Malacia, Jadon Sancho, Antony and Marcus Rashford, who subsequently joined Barcelona on loan.<\/p>\n
When asked about the player’s future in Chicago, boss Amorim said “sometimes things don’t work out”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have agreed a \u00a340m fee to sign Manchester United forward Alejandro Garnacho. The 21-year-old Argentina international was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-104017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}