He can be an attacking midfielder and certainly looks most dangerous playing in an advanced role. Defensive or progressive, he’s just very good at almost everything. That said, it’s not like you can point to any one or two specific skills he has. You might think that Chelsea have 427 other players they could use in midfield but this is all part of Big Head Todd And The Monsters’ plan to rebuild the Blues as a young, thrusting, dynamic team, capable of playing exciting football, replacing the old stodgy team, which can’t. However with 11 goals and 11 assists from the former position, that’ll likely be where Graham Potter plays him. So what’s so good about him? He’s played 50 games as a progressive central midfielder and 48 as a defensive midfielder. Whether this will put the sort of existential pressure on him that we’ve seen curse many an expensive Chelsea transfer down the decades, remains to be seen. Throw in 10 international appearances and you’ve got a pretty inexperienced player and not one who is used to the limelight being on him as one of the world’s most expensive. To say the least, this is something of a gamble, but an exciting one.Įnzo Fernandez has only made 116 club appearances in his short career to date and has 18 goals and 19 assists. He was given a remarkably long eight-and-a-half-year contract to amortise the fee over as long a period as possible, to get around Financial Fair Play. ‘No problem,’ said Big Head Todd and the Monsters, a little flushed and sweating after a session on the quality port and custard tarts.Īnd the deal was done. However, Benfica played the role of the stern parent and sent them away with a flea in their ear, telling them that they could only snaffle Enzo if they met their ludicrously high €120m release clause. At which point, Chelsea stumbled into town with money spilling out of their pockets, wearing a hat at a jaunty, come-hither angle. In total he had only played 29 games for Benfica, scoring four times and making seven assists. At that point he was offski to The Evil World Cup, having only made his Argentina debut two months earlier. He hit the ground running, winning Primeira Liga Midfielder of the Month in August, October and again in November. The first cab off the rank was Benfica who threw €10m at River Plate on June 23 last year to take the boy to Portugal and give him Eusébio’s No.
He played 53 games, scored 12 times and assisted 10 goals, helping them to win the Argentine top flight in 2021 and was named the best active footballer in Argentina.Īt this point, lots of top European clubs got up on their hind legs and started to sniff the Enzo air. On returning to River Plate, manager Marcelo Gallardo put him into the first team and it was at this point that his career began to take off.
However, he was sent out on loan to Defensa y Justicia, playing 33 games for them and helping them win the 2020 Copa Sudamericana and the Recopa Sudamericana. He worked his way right through all of the development squads to be given his first-team debut in March 2020 in a Copa Libertadores game. It’s been a supersonic, meteoric rise for the young player, one which began at River Plate at the age of five. This was just seven months after Benfica had paid €10m for his signature and only a month or so since Enzo helped his country win the World Cup. Chelsea’s £600m gamble could be one hell of an amusing bin fire but it is not difficult to figure out what they see in young talent like Enzo Fernandez.Įnzo Jeremías Fernández is a 5ft 10ins, Buenos Aires-born, Argentinean midfielder who has just become the most expensive British transfer of all time after being bought for £107million by Chelsea.
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