Benfica supervisor Roger Schmidt says the membership are able to “restart from zero” with Enzo Fernandez after Chelsea’s botched transfer to signal the midfielder.The Lisbon giants are sad with the Blues’ pursuit of the 21-year-old, who helped Argentina win the World Cup in Qatar final month.Customary Sport understands Chelsea had been seeking to pay Fernandez’s big launch clause of £112m over a collection of instalments as they bid to remain in step with UEFA’s Monetary Honest Play (FFP) laws.Benfica, nonetheless, are keen to maintain the participant within the Portuguese capital till the top of the season, having solely signed him from River Plate in August.Fernandez is believed to have broadly agreed private phrases with Chelsea nevertheless it stays unclear as as to whether or not talks may be salvaged.READ MORESchmidt has ceaselessly expressed his need to carry onto Fernandez and has vowed to reintegrate him again into the squad.“Now we restart from zero with Enzo,” he mentioned.“He will likely be again right now, we rely on him – he’s our participant, we want Enzo.”
Fernandez saga over as Benfica ‘restart from zero’ after failed Chelsea bid
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