Enzo Fernández’s signal after Chelsea’s impressive offer

These are decisive hours for the future of Enzo Fernández. The transfer market in Europe closes this Tuesday and Chelsea should make one last attempt to keep the world champion Argentine midfielder. At the moment there is no agreement, but the former River has played his cards to put pressure and it will not be tonight in the match against Arouca for the Portuguese championship. Out the door?

Furthermore, Enzo did not train alongside his team-mates in Monday’s training session, in which he only made a few movements in the gym, before speaking face to face with coach Roger Schmidt, to whom he allegedly communicated his intention to leave Benfica in this transit market. The DT didn’t even include it on the concentrate list for this Tuesday.

“We have to be prepared for everything when the market closes, especially if things are not in our hands. We know there’s a problem with Enzo. There is a release clause, if he wants to leave and the club pays that amount, we can’t avoid it. We have to be prepared, find solutions.” Schmidt assured in his last press conference.

In any case, the trainer does not consider the operation concluded, far from it. “He is our player, there was no agreement. He has our full support, he is a great person, an extraordinary player. I have already said everything on this matter. With the open market, anything can happen. There were several conversations at the beginning of January, he focused on Benfica, he played great games and that shows his quality. I will be very happy when the market closes and we can focus on the matches we have” he said.

Chelsea’s latest offer

After several weeks of talks between the clubs, they have relaunched the offer from London in the last few hours and on Monday the British media declared that the deal was almost closed. Hand. While Chelsea are willing to shell out more than the €120m needed to execute Enzo’s release clause, They intend to do it in several installments and Benfica seem inflexible on this point: to get him out in this market, the tickets have to be there now.

The Eagles obviously do not want to part with Enzo, whom they value as one of the most important players of the team which is first in the league and with a great campaign in the Champions League. That’s why they are very aware of what goes on with the 22-year-old midfielder and President Rui Costa has even canceled his commitments in recent days to follow everything closely.

Meanwhile, from London they will play their last card this Tuesday, on the siren of the passbook. The British media ensure that Christopher Vivell, a man of weight in the Blues, he will meet in Lisbon with the management of Benfica to try to unblock his departure.

In River they wait carefully

If Enzo’s deal with Chelsea goes through, it would be the most expensive Argentine in history, leaving behind the transfers of Pipita Higuaín, from Napoli to Juve, for 90 million euros, in 2016, and that of Ángel Di María, from Real Madrid to United, for 75 clubs, in 2014 (the world record is held from PSG, who bought Ney for 222 million). It would also be the most expensive payout in English football history.

And in Núñez they celebrate: it is that river, which sold it last year, He keeps 25% of the player’s economic rights, so with this sale he would collect 32.5 million euros. And there’s more: he still has to receive two bonuses of two million euros each for objectives to be achieved guaranteed by the contract. And 3.5% should be added for the solidarity mechanism, which would reach 4,585,000 euros. The total sum Enzo would leave from the club would exceed 41 million.