Alejandro Garnacho - Welcome to Aston Villa - Loan

[Toronto Villa]

Rory Jennings is a proper bell end

He is almost without question the most arrogant, self assured wank stain of a 'pundit' I've ever heard. He epitomizes exactly why Chelsea are principally unlikeable as a club.

Do I need to know who Rory Jennings is or can I ignore his existence ?

If you’ve never listened to him consider your life enriched. He drips entitlement.

[Clampy]

A mate of mine concurred with Toronto, that he is indeed a proper bellend.

[olaftab]

A mate of mine concurred with Toronto, that he is indeed a proper bellend.

I find that shocking. Shocking that you have a mate😳

[Tuscans]

🚨🟣🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Aston Villa agree deal to sign Alejandro Garnacho from Chelsea, here we go!

Club to club agreement done on loan with buy clause to become mandatory under certain conditions.

Unai Emery wanted Garnacho. Medical also booked.

[SamTheMouse]

Garnacho might indeed be guilty of 'silly' and 'petulant' behaviour, but at only just 22, he's still a kid. Some take longer to mature. If and when he does, I reckon he'll be a tremendous player.

[villadelph]

Now we support the lad and make United/Chelsea regret their failings.

[Clark W Griswold]

Before he was linked, he would have a been way down on the list of  wingers we could go for. I hope the links are not true.

It's too late, he's on his way and you need to face reality.

Unless he fails the medical. Nothing serious of course but just something to scupper the deal.

[Clampy]

A mate of mine concurred with Toronto, that he is indeed a proper bellend.

I find that shocking. Shocking that you have a mate😳

I have 104 friends.

[Dogtanian]

A mate of mine concurred with Toronto, that he is indeed a proper bellend.

I find that shocking. Shocking that you have a mate😳

I have 104 friends.

That’s more than I have head of cattle!

[Tuscans]

🚨 Aston Villa agree deal sign Alejandro Garnacho from Chelsea. 22yo #CFC winger joins #AVFC on loan + conditional buy obligation. Medical done & Argentina int’l in Birmingham to complete. 4yr contract upon permanent switch - driven by Emery
@TheAthleticFC

How will UEFA look at this deal?

As detailed in the latest version of , signing players from Chelsea this window poses a quandary for Aston Villa. Any permanent signing would be deemed a ‘player exchange transaction’ by UEFA, and Villa’s sizeable profit on Morgan Rogers would be reduced in UEFA calculations to the net difference in fees paid for Rogers and, in this instance, Garnacho.

UEFA’s rule on deemed player exchanges covers a period of 45 days, and the Premier League transfer window has only 41 days left to run (as of Tuesday). Villa are in a settlement agreement with UEFA whereby they have little motivation to eat into that Rogers profit, so signing someone from Chelsea would do them no favours there.
One workaround is exactly the Garnacho deal now posited: a loan move that can conditionally – and conditional is the key word – turn permanent.

If Garnacho’s move were to turn permanent more than 45 days after the Rogers deal completes, Villa would retain the full profit on the latter; Chelsea, too, would bank whatever profit they make on Garnacho without the need for adjustment. They are in their own UEFA settlement agreement and badly need to generate large profits from player trading in 2026-27.

A conditional loan would therefore be beneficial for all parties, but UEFA is also wise to clubs finding loopholes. The governing body’s rulebook dictates that “if a condition is considered to be virtually certain”, the deal must be recognised as a permanent one at the point the loan begins. If, however, “the fulfilment of a condition cannot be assessed with sufficient certainty to trigger the permanent transfer from the inception of the loan”, then clubs can record a deal as a loan initially, then as a permanent transfer only once the relevant condition(s) is met.

Any such conditions are unknown at this stage, but it’s plainly in both Villa and Chelsea’s interests for any permanent transfer to take place later. If Garnacho does move to the Midlands, UEFA will cast a keen eye over matters. But the rules retain scope for manoeuvre, if clubs are savvy enough.

[Olneythelonely]

I guarantee you they will see this as an issue and we will be punished as such.

[Mellin]

I'm pleased. There's a lot to work with and I trust Emery to bring him on a level. Look at the state of the managers he's played for. Ten Haag, Amorim, Maresca and Rosenior? Apart from arguably Maresca, and the jury's out, that is a shit show.

22, pace and quality. Let's go.

[Clark W Griswold]

I guarantee you they will see this as an issue and we will be punished as such.

Surely we wouldn't be stupid enough to set it up so that is a certainty, thus being in breach of the rules. We'll want to at least have a good look at him in the first half of the season and a get out if he is indeed shite / an total bell end...

[villadelph]

I keep seeing this on socials and figure it's worth a post on here.. but Garnacho is younger than Duran and when Mo Salah was his age he was at Basel, de Bruyne was on loan at Werder Bremen, Hazard was still at Lille.

There's still time for Garnacho to come good.

[Mister E]

I guarantee you they will see this as an issue and we will be punished as such.

Surely we wouldn't be stupid enough to set it up so that is a certainty, thus being in breach of the rules. We'll want to at least have a good look at him in the first half of the season and a get out if he is indeed shite / an total bell end...

Well, we did bring Brian in somewhat precipitately ....