MADRID, 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The English Chelsea managed to get hold of the winter transfer market in the last hours with the signing of the Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernández, for whom they have broken the record in the Premier League by paying 121 million euros.
The London team had long been the best placed to win the promising 20-year-old player, world champion with Argentina last December and voted ‘Best Young Player’ at the World Cup in Qatar. The amount paid to his club of origin, the Portuguese Benfica, surpassing the 100 million that Manchester City paid Aston Villa in its day for Jack Grealish.
“SL Benfica informs that it has reached an agreement with Chelsea FC for the sale of all the rights of the player Enzo Fernández, for an amount of 121,000,000 euros. It is also reported that Chelsea FC will have the right to retain the solidarity mechanism of 3.78 percent for its subsequent distribution to the clubs that participated in the formation of the player,” said the Lisbon team in a statement on the website of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission.
In addition, Benfica will have to assume the charges “for intermediation services” and will also have to pay Argentine River Plate, the club that transferred Fernández to him in the summer of 2022, the amount corresponding “to 25 percent of the transfer value deducted of the solidarity amount and intermediation services”.
Chelsea has been the great protagonist of this winter market, in which it has disbursed more than 300 million euros, with more than 90 for the Ukrainian striker Mikhaylo Mudryk, and also for finally staying with the Moroccan winger Hakim Ziyech when it seemed that he was all agreed to go to the French PSG.
The left-footed player even passed a medical examination on Tuesday morning, but nevertheless, according to the sports newspaper ‘L’Equipe’, his transfer to the Parisian team could not be carried out because Chelsea sent “repeatedly the same incorrect document”. , so the motion could not be approved.
Also notable in the Premier League were the signings of Spanish winger Pedro Porro, who left Sporting de Portugal to join Tottenham Hotspur, while Manchester United signed Austrian midfielder Marcel Sabitzer from Bayern at the last minute. German Munich upon learning of the serious ankle injury of the Danish Christian Eriksen.