{"id":656895,"date":"2025-07-13T06:59:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=656895"},"modified":"2025-07-13T06:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:59:49","slug":"alejandro-garnacho-transfer-al-nassr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/13\/alejandro-garnacho-transfer-al-nassr\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United &#8216;Starboy&#8217; Rejects Opportunity to Join Red Devils &#8216;Legend&#8217; in Permanent Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a terrible 2024\/25 season, Manchester United look ahead to the next campaign to try and bounce back. As they have already made a couple of transfers in this window and intend to spend a lot more, they need to sell some players, especially with the club&#8217;s current financial state. However, Alejandro Garnacho has reportedly rejected a move to Al Nassr in the Saudi Pro League.<\/p>\n<h2>Alejandro Garnacho Rejects Al Nassr Move Despite Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Pull<\/h2>\n<h3>European Transfer Prioritised<\/h3>\n<p>Mike McGrath, of The Telegraph, has <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mcgrathmike\/status\/1944293622158970920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> that Garnacho has &#8220;rejected [the] opportunity to pursue [a] move to Al Nassr&#8221;. A Saudi transfer would&#8217;ve brought great financial fruits for the player but also the club, as SPL bids are often huge in an attempt to attract Europe&#8217;s top talents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/12\/andre-onana-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Massive Blow\u2019 for Manchester United: Ruben Amorim Now \u2018Weighing Up\u2019 Big Transfer Following Injury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As per Fabrizio Romano previously, the Argentinian <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1941142956666503498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">informed<\/a> his club that he wanted to leave this summer, with an <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1941149902291206240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreement<\/a> reached between the two. However, Garnacho reportedly prioritises a European move, despite Manchester United <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/reds-in-their-40s-as-cristiano-ronaldo-signs-al-nassr-contract\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;legend&#8221;<\/a> Cristiano Ronaldo playing for Al Nassr. The <a  href=\"https:\/\/footballhorizon.co.uk\/alejandro-garnacho-the-new-starboy\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;starboy&#8221;<\/a> has unlimited potential, and to become one of the world&#8217;s best players, he will need to stay in Europe, playing for a Champions League side.<\/p>\n<h3>Does An Alejandro Garnacho Departure Hurt Manchester United&#8217;s Depth?<\/h3>\n<p>The wide positions were once a strength of Manchester United&#8217;s, though they now look slightly quiet. Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho are other players to have asked for a transfer this summer, whilst Antony may move on after a loan spell at Real Betis. Meanwhile, Amad Diallo struggled with injuries last season.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Ruben Amorim&#8217;s system includes wing-backs and slightly narrower support players rather than full-backs and wingers, the departure of Garnacho will still hurt. The 21-year-old worked well in this position, and United are really just left with Bruno Fernandes, Mason Mount, and newly signed Matheus Cunha (though striker Joshua Zirkzee could fill in).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/11\/everton-johan-bakayoko-nottingham-forest\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton and Nottingham Forest Both \u2018Call to Open Discussions\u2019 in Race for Player With High Demands<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, they must dip into the market again, with interest lying in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/27\/tottenham-hotspur-bryan-mbeumo-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Bryan Mbeumo<\/a>. With United selling one player and signing another, fans would be forgiven for questioning why this was necessary. Garnacho was a proven player with a lot more years left in his career than Mbeumo. Even keeping both would be a fine move, with their depth quite shallow. The Red Devils may regret not keeping their player happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a terrible 2024\/25 season, Manchester United look ahead to the next campaign to try and bounce back. As they have already made a couple of transfers in this window and intend to spend a lot more, they need to sell some players, especially with the club&#8217;s current financial state. However, Alejandro Garnacho has reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":648394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,18,3,7188],"tags":[9228,36],"class_list":["post-656895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-alejandro-garnacho","tag-manchester-united"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656900,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656895\/revisions\/656900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}