Enzo Fernández under fire: Chelsea dressing room fuming, legend blasts him | OneFootball

After playing the friendlies with the Argentina national team, Enzo Fernández returns to London, where a tense dressing room awaits him. The Telegraph reported that Chelsea players are unhappy with the Argentine midfielder, the team’s vice-captain, over his comments about his future at the club at the worst moment of the season.

The remark that set everything off came after the Champions League elimination against PSG: “I don’t know, there are eight games left and the FA Cup. There’s the World Cup and then we’ll see.” According to the British outlet, that response first angered the fans and then caused frustration inside the dressing room.

The context does not help. Liam Rosenior’s Blues have suffered four straight defeats in all competitions, including elimination against PSG by an 8-2 aggregate score in the Champions League.

In that atmosphere of crisis, Fernández’s open signals about a possible departure in the European summer transfer window, which coincide with rumors linking him to Real Madrid, went down very badly within the squad.

That was compounded by an incident The Telegraph itself detailed: during the match against PSG, Fernández confronted goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen after an error that ruined a possible comeback, even throwing the ball at him. The incident further strained the internal atmosphere in a dressing room where the Argentine is serving as vice-captain due to Reece James’s injury.

The comments fueling the rumors also came from outside the strictly sporting sphere. In an interview on Luzu TV before returning to London, Fernández said that Madrid would be his preferred city to live in in Europe.

“I always tell Valu (Cervantes, his partner) that if I have to choose a city to live in in Europe, I really like Madrid. It’s very similar to Buenos Aires.” In the current context, that remark did not go unnoticed.

The strongest criticism came from someone deeply tied to the club’s history. John Obi Mikel, a Chelsea great with 372 appearances, was direct on his Obi One podcast: “You were the captain in that game and you make those statements. If you’re already tired, put your hands up, leave, and we move on. No player is bigger than the club.”

And he finished mercilessly: “You can’t come out and say that, no matter what is going on. You are paid very well at this club and you should be grateful to be able to play here. When you come out and make that statement, it is very, very disrespectful to the club and to the fans.”

Beyond the noise, Enzo’s numbers in the 2025-26 season are hard to ignore. In 30 matches he scored eight goals, provided three assists, and was involved in 51 Chelsea chances. He was also a key figure in the Club World Cup triumph, where the team beat PSG in the final played in the United States.

Chelsea are sixth in the Premier League with 48 points, six behind Aston Villa, who occupy the last Champions League qualification spot. With eight matchdays remaining and the World Cup on the horizon, Fernández’s future at Stamford Bridge is the question no one at the club seems ready to answer just yet.

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