Paul Merson’s take on Enzo Fernandez transfer lines up perfectly with ours | OneFootball

Enzo Fernandez has flirted with a potential departure from Chelsea, and Paul Merson has now given his thoughts on it.

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Paul Merson’s piece for Sky Sports today was largely about Liam Rosenior and his antics over the last week. But the former Arsenal man also touched on another major Blues story – Enzo Fernandez hinting that he might be leaving this summer.

“He’ll have to stay, they paid £100m for him and they’re not getting that £100m back if they sell him this summer, unless he has an unbelievable World Cup,” Merson pointed out quite reasonably.

“With Financial Fair Play rules and everything, they can’t afford to let him go for a huge loss, unless they sell an academy player for huge money – and they’re not selling Reece James who has just signed a new contract. So I can’t see Enzo Fernandez going anywhere.”

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It’s true, and it lines up with what we said – we’re not so much worried about Enzo leaving as we are about what him openly saying he wants to leave signals about the faith that all our key players have in this project.

We can’t see anyone paying what he want for him – but the fact that players bought as cornerstones of the XI are openly considering their future is so damaging.

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