MU and Chelsea are considering swap between Alejandro Garnacho and Christopher Nkunku. But bringing in Nkunku is a very confusing transfer plan of the red shirt team to Manchester.
It is difficult to understand because, Nkunku is not the striker, the position that MU is in need. The French player is only used to the wing. And the most important thing is that Nkunku's performance was seriously decided by constant injury. In the 2024/25 season, the 27 -year -old striker played 22 matches in all competitions, but there were only 9 matches in the Premier League.
The influence of Nkunku at Chelsea has been greatly limited and becoming increasingly faint due to injury and not in the plan of coach Enzo Maresca. As a “No. 10” player or a backward striker, the French player felt he was stuck behind Cole Palmer at the Blues, where the Italian military leader wanted the home team to play with a single striker Nicolas Jackson before Liam Delap arrived this summer.
That is also the reason why Nkunku has not been summoned to France, taking a break for nearly 2 months due to injury. He had just had a rare main match against Esperance Tunis (3-0, the last match of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 group stage). Despite playing the entire match, but Nkunku's statistics are not really impressive. He only launched 1 shot in 90 minutes of competition, making 2 passes in the penalty area, successfully drying the ball in half of the situation.
Perhaps, when MU failed to compete with Chelsea to win Liam Delap, negotiate to buy Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford into a deadlock, so it had to consider the flag “hanging around and without this future”.
The only advantage for MU in this deal is that Nkunku really wants to leave Chelsea to save his career, and Garnacho also clearly defines the future not at Old Trafford. It is known that the duo represented by Garnacho, including Carlos Cambeiro and Enrique de Lucas, attended a Chelsea match in January when the champions of Europa Conference League consider making offer for this Argentine winger.
It should be emphasized that De Lucas played for Chelsea in the 2002/03 season, so Garnacho moved to the home team Stamford Bride for the Argentine winger would be much more convenient.
Garnacho is not a player for MU during the Ruben Amorim dynasty. But clearly pushing a winger away to get another winger, while the team needs a striker, is a very … MU (MU (likes to go into a vicious circle). Worse, although Garnacho played inefficiently, he was less injured and “fragile” more than a Nkunku possesses a very easy -to -injured body.
When signing a contract with Nkunku from Leipzig, those who love Chelsea once expected the home team will have a scary weapon in the attack. However, the French player was no longer himself. A burning, enthusiastic nkunku and becoming a “phenomenon” in the Bundesliga gradually disappeared and dramatically decided by constant injuries.
In the two seasons at Chelsea, Nkunku only played half of the Premier League matches, but most of them came from the bench. He has 6 goals and 2 tectonic times in the No. 1 tournament of the country of fog. The statistics are too small for a copy of the “blockbuster” at the time.
Obviously, pushing a Garnacho “harmless but at least no injury” to “procession” of a Nkunku has dropped dramatically because it is often sick, showing that MU's very confusing transfer policy. Amorim wants to buy names that match his style of playing, but the “selling bulls” (business does not know how to calculate) only makes the theater of dreams more disturbing, a jumble that is hard to control.
