The Enzo Fernandez Chelsea Problem

Was just talking about him i was saying why cant any manager play him as a deep lying playmaker like he does for arfentina

I am eagerly waiting Enzo Fernandez ban by FIFA for racially abusing black french national team football players. Chelsea is better team without him. The dude is most underwhelming player at Chelsea. The club should seriously attempt to move him on. He has needlessly been given the captaincy, his corner kicks are poor, lacks mobility, doesn’t track runners don’t do any pressing, and his passing accuracy is awfully error prone and erratic. The dude is just a younger version of Jorginho.

He's an integral player for Argentina

I’ve been having exactly the same concerns about Enzo Fernandez and his low levels of performance this year. He loses the ball frequently and that has generated dangerous counter attacks from the opposition in many occasions. If that happens against the likes of Liverpool or Arsenal we’ll be toast. I’d rather see Romeo Lavia instead of Fernandez. He’s a much better passer and is also excellent off the ball, something Fernandez sorely lacks. I hope Lavia can start against Liverpool together with Caicedo in midfield. I think Chelsea will be much better with those two players.

He is slow, sad and sloppy with the ball

The idea that Enzo is one of the best players at Chelsea is ridiculous. He has a fair bit of talent but he's not delivering on it. Contrast with players like Fabregas or Lampard. Players that absolutely were top shelf midfielders. Is Enzo even close to where they were at 23? I wouldn't say so. I would argue he's miles away from that level.

Our expectation for Enzo when we bought him was Jorgi's passing, good vision, and a combative and aggressive disposition. In other words, he was thought to be a serious ball player who wouldn't be a complete liability defensively. He'd be the forward pivot player in a midfield duo that could actually hack it in the Prem.

The reality is that such a pivot struggles to function because Enzo just doesn't deliver enough defensively, which means the other pivot player is given an impossible job. Enzo is a bit too slow to really be where he needs to be at the time where he needs to be there, and he's too weak in the tackle to not be a bit of a target.

So something else has to be done to make it work, but if that's done then someone with a role further forward will get a more defensive role, and what does Enzo then offer to compensate? Frank would score 20 goals a season, Cesc would hit those scary accurate passes time and time again, but what can Enzo do? He's been at the club for nearly two years at this point and he hasn't improved much either. If anything, he's declined a bit.

But he could have improved. He could have worked on his tackling game. Kante was a monster and had less physicality than Enzo. He could've worked on his overall strength, putting on a bit of muscle, making it harder to just shove him off the ball or out of the way. He could have worked on timing and pattern recognition. He could've worked on making his passing game sharper. He could have but he did not.

And now consider how much work we have to put into defining Enzo's optimal role in midfield. Should not be tasked with pressing, should not be tasked with intensive runs on or off the ball, should not be tasked with marking players, shouldn't be relied on as a ball-winner, and probably shouldn't be given any task further forward than the middle third. Basically a midfielder that neither defends nor attacks, but he can make nice passes every once in a while. Billy Gilmour with an Argie passport, then?

Yeah, I know. Kind of harsh on young Billy G, isn't it?

Chelsea should sign Paul Pogba. Thank me later…😊

If Madueke passed the ball to him in the past couple of matches when he got close to the box, Enzo Fernandez would have scored goals. Check the highlights, it's crazy.

45 mil player at max, overhyped, worldcup tax