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Enzo Fernandez, England's most expensive signing 120 seconds from the gong

2023-02-02 22:45:32, Sport CNA

Enzo Fernandez refused to stay at Benfica until the end of the season, despite president Rui Costa fighting to convince him to stay in Lisbon until the end of the season. After several days of tedious negotiations, which intensified in the last two days of the market, Chelsea and Benfica finally reached an agreement for the transfer of the Argentine midfielder, who signed for 8.5 years at Stamford Bridge.

But everything was in danger of failing, as both sides firmly insisted on their positions. The Portuguese "Record" revealed that the contract was signed just 2 minutes before the gong fell, thanks also to the insistence of the best young player of the World Cup in Qatar, who wanted to transfer to "Stamford Bridge" this month.

Meanwhile, the other Portuguese newspaper, "A Bola", revealed that coach Roxher Shmid's position was not to keep a footballer against his will in the team. Chelsea were in danger of failing to land manager Graham Potter's top midfield target. When talks became difficult over the split of the 22-year-old's release clause, Chelsea briefly began to consider other options, including Brighton's Moises Kaisedo and Everton's Amadu Onana. But the personal intervention of the co-owner of Chelsea, Behdad Eghbali, who took the lead of the negotiations in the last 7 hours resolved the deadlock.

In the end, Benfica gave in and agreed that Chelsea will make the eighth shot in this market, which it will pay in 6 installments, but will pour into Benfica's coffers 40 million pounds immediately.

To make the purchase of Enzo the most expensive in the history of British football (it broke the record of the transfer of Jack Grealish from Aston Villa to Manchester City two years ago), 1 million euros more than the value of the termination of his contract were paid. Enzo Fernandez, who arrived in London only yesterday, also became the most expensive footballer in the world, replacing Cristiano Ronaldo in ninth place.