Enzo Fernandez: Chelsea sign midfielder in £106.8m English record move bargain from Benfica Chelsea have marked midfielder Enzo Fernandez fr...
Enzo Fernandez: Chelsea sign midfielder in £106.8m English record move bargain from Benfica
Chelsea have marked midfielder Enzo Fernandez from Benfica for an English record £106.8m; bargain for Argentine outperforms the £100m Manchester City paid for Jack Grealish from Aston Manor year and a half prior; the 22-year-old has marked an eight-and-a-half-year bargain at Stamford Extension
13:48, UK, Wednesday 01 February 2023
Chelsea have marked midfielder Enzo Fernandez from Benfica for an English record £106.8m.
The arrangement for the Argentine outperforms the £100m Manchester City paid for Jack Grealish from Aston Estate year and a half back.
The 22-year-old, who actually joined Benfica the previous summer for around £10m, has marked an eight-and-a-half-year bargain at Stamford Extension to keep him at the club until the late spring of 2031.
Chelsea are yet to officially report Fernandez's marking, yet they posted a secret video on Twitter on Tuesday morning.
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The Chief Association's record purchases
Enzo Fernandez - Benfica to Chelsea, January 2023 - £106.8m
Jack Grealish - Aston Manor to Manchester City, summer 2021 - £100m
Romelu Lukaku - Bury Milan to Chelsea, summer 2021 - £97.5m
Romelu Lukaku - Everton to Manchester Joined together, summer 2017 - £90m
Paul Pogba - Juventus to Manchester Joined together, summer 2016 - £89m
Mykhailo Mudryk - Shakhtar Donetsk to Chelsea, January 2022 - £88.5m
Chelsea had been in converses with sign the World Cup victor all through January, however Benfica had wouldn't carry on with work except if the Blues paid his €120m discharge condition.
Sky Sports News boss journalist Kaveh Solhekol makes sense of how Chelsea got the marking of Enzo Fernandez from Benfica for an English record move charge
Be that as it may, Chelsea concurred an arrangement of €121m at 9.15pm on Cutoff time Day following 12 hours of talks drove by Chelsea's co-proprietor Behdad Eghbali from London.
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The Blues will pay a first portion of £30m with the remainder of the expense paid in five further portions.
Fernandez was avoided with regard to Benfica's crew for their game against Arouca on Tuesday night, with the 22-year-old going through a clinical in Portugal in front of his change to Stamford Extension.
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Fernandez is Chelsea's eighth marking of the January window
As indicated by Portuguese telecaster SIC, Fernandez will travel to the UK on Wednesday morning, with a personal luxury plane booked to leave Lisbon air terminal at 10.20am.
Fernandez will assist with supplanting Jorginho, who joined Chelsea's London rivals Weapons store on Cutoff time Day in a £12m bargain.
Examination: What Fernandez will bring to Chelsea
"Fernandez's ascribes clarify the way in which he can help. Still just partially through his most memorable season with Benfica, he has piled up the second-most aids the Primeira Liga, and made 30 opportunities for his colleagues - some of them especially attractive, and a shocking pinpoint set-up for Goncalo Ramos against Donning recently maybe the pick of the bundle.
"It is that sort of playmaking potential which had Manchester City and Genuine Madrid keen on getting him from childhood side Waterway Plate the previous summer before he chose a transition to Lisbon.
"Nobody in the Portuguese first class has made a greater number of passes than the Argentine, and in the event that he demonstrates to supplant Jorginho at Stamford Extension, he will likewise give a bonus in the last third where he beats out all competitors for passes as well.
"Should Chelsea need to play with a midfield two, he would offer a superior choice there as well.
Fernandez has previously assumed liability without the ball at Benfica, opening into a broadcaster job consistently as required.
He has been one of the association's top tacklers, and just 10 players across the division have won the ball back more in the center third in spite of his extensive result further up the pitch."
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What amount did Chelsea spend in January?
Following the appearance of Fernandez, Chelsea burned through £323.3m in January.
Here are the arrangements the Blues made:
Benoit Badiashile - Monaco, £35m
David Datro Fofana - Molde, undisclosed (detailed £10m bargain)
Andrey Santos - Vasco da Gama, undisclosed (detailed £18m bargain)
Joao Felix - Atletico Madrid, £9.7m advance
Mykhailo Mudryk - Shakhtar Donetsk, £88.5m
Noni Madueke - PSV Eindhoven, £29m
Malo Energy - Lyon, £26.3m
Enzo Fernandez - Benfica, £106.8m
£323m sprinkled in January: How Chelsea stay away from FFP sanctions
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Chelsea have sprinkled over £323m in this January move window subsequent to finishing an English record bargain for Benfica's Enzo Fernandez - so how are they ready to spend such tremendous aggregates and remain inside Monetary Fair Play rules?
The UEFA FFP guidelines are intended to restrict exorbitant spending and there are likewise Chief Association rules which set a limit for the misfortunes a club can experience more than a three-year time span.
Huge fines or focuses derivations can be doled out as discipline with clubs which don't comply to the standards.
However, with the Blues concurring a £106.8m move for Fernandez, new Chelsea co-proprietor Todd Boehly will have supervised a burn through £600m since the takeover in May 2022 - and they seem to have remained inside the rules.
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