New Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso has refused to guarantee that Alejandro Garnacho will be at the club next season. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
Speaking on the player’s future, Alonso admitted discussions with the club’s hierarchy regarding a transfer for the Argentine forward are already at an advanced stage.
Xabi concluded by emphasising that the hard work begins immediately to erase the memories of a dire 2025-26 season.
His words, “The situation is we have spoken with the sports directors, and there’s an interest in him from other clubs. So let’s see how it develops, but hopefully it finishes in the best possible ways for all parties.
We are starting from zero. For sure, that’s a goal (returning to Europe). But to reach that goal, you need to do many right things and to be part of that process: how we want to play, how we want to to see ourselves, and how we want to approach a game wherever we go.
That’s my job. For sure we want to be there, and time will tell. But we are ambitious, and we just need to show us that energy, that ambition, and as well that hunger to want to have success.”
Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
