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    Benfica coach calls out Chelsea for handling of Enzo Fernandez transfer | ESPN FC



    The ESPN FC crew discusses Chelsea signing centre-back Benoit Badiashile as well the situation with Enzo Fernandez at Benfica.

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    2. World Peace on

      Enzo should stay this season and focus on winning the champions league with Benfica ( there is realistic chance ) and take his market value to 180 – 200 millions dollar .

    5. yellow hill on

      I think the FIFA and the FA are punishing chelsea for there former Russian managers 🤔 just look at every players we are link with always get sabotage by the league or the media 🤔 ..its clear to see.

    6. Chad on

      It's interesting how the team needs strikers but we keep buying defenders. I understand we have an aging back 4, but we have ZERO strikers…

    7. Blues on

      These guys are confused, and Frank is only half right. Chelsea's problem has been their horrendous midfield and nonexistent attack. These people keep singing Kova's praises when they clearly don't watch the game. He passes backwards the whole game and the trio of Kova, Cucarella, and Koulibaly couldnt get the ball up the darn pitch the whole start of the 2nd half.
      Zakaria was the best mid we had all game, Gallagher was the only one who understood we were only down 1 goal at home, and Hall did more than Cucarella has done most of this season in 15 minutes of play. This team is in shambles and Potter has no presence in the lockeroom or ability to spark a flame under any of these players. Several of these players need to be let go because they are not hungry to win and the years have proven that there isn't a manager that they are going to bust their butts off for

    10. Acarna66 on

      I feel like Chelsea need another 2 defenders & 3 midfielders & 3 strikers…. Another £300million is needed to spend. It’s not like their youth team is any good 😉

    15. Eric Nana on

      I am not sure what is going on with my team, Chelsea 🤔. It looks like the problems were not coming from the coach Tuchel after all. The new coach still can not win games after all the money spent 😒 🙄

    16. Tom Golab on

      One look at the EPL current table and such guys as Enzo, Mudryk etc are likely to laugh instead join. Money at CFC these days will not make them happy nor successful. Patiently waiting the outcome on some of these.

    17. Boubacar Bah on

      Chelsea literally spent 100 million on a striker two summers ago who was starved of service because the midfield behind the striker is poor, but Frank thinks Chelsea midfield is fine 😂

    18. U G on

      Chelsea should be happy that Enzo even considered the club considering it’s state today. This fee will be too much pressure for him, someone pockets it but he will be the one carrying the load to justify.

    23. Dastan on

      It is way better for Chelsea to try to negotiate and get Citie's Forward Julián Álvarez. He has to play more, but the competition with Holland is tough. Chelsea can give him this opportunity longterm.

    24. Jim shelley on

      How much more players does Chelsea need to spend.? They've wasted so much money on the likes of Sterling and the left back they bought from Brighton.

    25. JC Moran on

      Sorry , But you are wrong , Benfica doesn't have nothing to do with what Chelsea has and wants to pay , for starting they told that in this transfer window they would sell for the release clause only no discussion here when Chelsea or any club advances to buy a player that they know has a specific price tag that is unmovable , Benfica if Chelsea took the player and payed the clause would had to go to the Market to buy another player to that spot , you are only seeing the Chelsea side that was very unprofessional in this Exchange of Enzo so far , Benfica told everyone after the World Cup that would only sell Enzo for its clause or wouldn't sell bellow this clause … Benfica is in first in its own league , its in the Champions , and Portuguese Cup, and Enzo was always Benfica priority in the first team , and important player that above all got recon on the World Cup with is Country and now you want to make it like Its Benfica fault of Enzo being unhappy , its not it was Chelsea way of doing this , making the player a kid 21 years old think about money and rebel , when you knew from minute zero Benfica wouldn't sell below its clause .. This is not Fair for Benfica and for the player ..

    29. John Farley on

      CHELSEA
      BOEHLY
      This follows a trend by Chelsea Owner Todd Boehly that appears often repeated
      BOEHLY agrees a player and buy out clause with both player and club.
      THEN
      Boehly angers club and player by not agreeing to pay the pay out clause.
      This "unsettling" am certain has been repeated time and again as a tactic.
      BOEHLY then keeps the first player on ice and pursues a lesser category player in buying courtship.
      This destabilising tactic is plain and obvious.
      Probably because BOEHLY has a scatter gun and undisciplined aporoach creats intense havic whilst bathing in the spotlight as the big I am owner.
      My opinion but feel am not far from the mark.

    32. KK on

      Chelsea were shitty, so were Benfica management. Their greed unsettled a promising youngster as much as Chelsea's double-dealing. They even created a fake overblown social media attack on the player to turn Benfica fans against Enzo to push him towards leaving (thus making Benfica a massive profit after just six months investment). This nonsense could have derailed his career.

    33. Pedro Videira on

      As long as Chelsea don’t pay the release clause of Roger Schmidt i am happy….we will replace Enzo in the middle of the park , as Frank would say, but replace Schmidt is a huge problem

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