{"id":21674,"date":"2026-03-26T03:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/alejandro-garnacho-former-man-utd-star-convicted-of-speeding-days-before-leaving-training-ground-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:17:20","slug":"alejandro-garnacho-former-man-utd-star-convicted-of-speeding-days-before-leaving-training-ground-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/alejandro-garnacho-former-man-utd-star-convicted-of-speeding-days-before-leaving-training-ground-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro Garnacho: Former Man Utd star convicted of speeding days before leaving training ground uk news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Former Manchester United footballer Alejandro Garnacho has been convicted of speeding away from the club&#8217;s training ground just days before leaving the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Argentinian was caught driving a powerful Audi at 50mph in a 40mph zone near his old side&#8217;s Carrington facility in Greater Manchester on August 26 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Four days later he left the Red Devils for Chelsea in a \u00a340m deal.<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho, through lawyers, pleaded guilty to speeding at Liverpool Magistrates Court and apologised.<\/p>\n<p>His representatives said he was &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; by the incident. A separate charge of failing to respond to a police letter regarding a speeding offense was dropped due to the guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho was fined \u00a3660. He was also ordered to pay \u00a3120 court costs and a \u00a3264 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>Three penalty points were issued on his licence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/>Meta and YouTube found liable<br \/>&#8216;I was threatened with a screwdriver&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court hearing, which took place behind closed doors, took place two months later <strong>Liam Rosenior, Garnacho&#8217;s manager at Chelsea, was also convicted of speeding.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Speeding makes up the majority of motoring offenses in England and Wales, <strong>which are at record highs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United footballer Alejandro Garnacho has been convicted of speeding away from the club&#8217;s training ground just days before leaving the club. The 21-year-old Argentinian was caught driving a powerful Audi at 50mph in a 40mph zone near his old side&#8217;s Carrington facility in Greater Manchester on August 26 last year. Four days later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[10105,3994,670,10107,605,1052,682,615,1067,2116,1698,10109],"class_list":{"0":"post-21674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-verse","8":"tag-alejandro","9":"tag-convicted","10":"tag-days","11":"tag-garnacho","12":"tag-ground","13":"tag-leaving","14":"tag-man","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-speeding","17":"tag-star","18":"tag-training","19":"tag-utd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21678,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions\/21678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}