Andrey Santos: Man United make tempting switch supply for Chelsea’s Samba star


After weeks of hypothesis, Chelsea lastly made a transfer for Alejandro Garnacho this week.

Reviews recommend Garnacho has been holding out for a swap to Stamford Bridge.

Eager to hyperlink up with compatriot Enzo Fernandez, the 21-year-old reportedly turned down gives from prime European golf equipment to make the transfer.

Regardless of the deal showing simple, with the participant eager on the transfer and United open to a sale, it has not performed out that manner.

Gross sales first, then contact

Chelsea had been initially understood to prioritise participant gross sales earlier than launching a transfer for Garnacho.

However earlier this week, information broke that they’d lastly made contact with United over the deal.

From these preliminary discussions, a sticking level shortly emerged: the switch price.

United are holding out for £50 million, whereas Chelsea insist they’ll solely pay £30 million.

That distinction in valuation has stalled progress, however United, eager to assist Chelsea land their man, proposed a win-win swap deal.

Santos-Garnacho swap floated

In keeping with Ben Jacobs by way of The United Stand, “Andrey Santos was introduced up in discussions for Alejandro Garnacho. Chelsea don’t need to promote.”

INEOS will need to have discovered it baffling that Chelsea flatly refused to entertain a Santos-Garnacho swap deal.

It’s all the extra intriguing contemplating Chelsea have actively sought to dump gamers to land Garnacho.

They reportedly even provided Nicolas Jackson, Christopher Nkunku, Axel Disasi and Renato Veiga as a part of a possible swap deal.

So why reject a Santos deal, particularly when he has struggled to interrupt into their beginning XI?

Signed in 2023 from Vasco da Gama, the Samba star has spent 18 months on mortgage at Strasbourg.

Whereas he impressed in Ligue 1 and have become an everyday of their midfield, he has but to persuade Enzo Maresca.

He performed a peripheral position on the FIFA Membership World Cup, and with Moises Caicedo and Fernandez clicking, he’s unlikely to displace both from the beginning line-up.

Why United need Santos

United are actively searching for an athletic central midfielder, somebody to enrich Bruno Fernandes, and Santos matches the invoice.

His Ligue 1 spell showcased him as a singular midfielder who carries the ball with ease, good for development, strikes the ball cleanly with out breaking stride, pings passes with precision, and competes fiercely in each aerial and floor duels. No surprise Chelsea are reluctant to let him go.

Certainly at United, he would have injected the chew that Ruben Amorim thinks his midfield nonetheless lacks.

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