🔝 Enzo Fernandez 'Best in Class' (Primeira Liga; 22/23):

💥 1270 short passes (1st)
💥 161 long passes (1st)
💥 184 passes into final third (1st)
💥 32 acc. corners (1st)
💥 27839 yards passing distance (1st)
💥 147 progressive passes (1st)
💥 5 assists (2nd)

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🚨 “I’ve worked out that signing Enzo Fernández over a 8 and a half year contract for €120m costs broadly £12.3m a year, if Chelsea waited till the summer and signed a €80m midfielder on a 5 year contract that works out at £14.1m a year”

“The flip side is Enzo will be on their books for a long time and they’re making bets on these players to not underperform”

(Liam Twomey)

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Want to make clear this is *extremely basic* layman’s amortisation maths that football finance experts would probably scoff at (and doesn’t factor in player wages), but it does give a broad idea of the accounting benefit of these ultra-long contracts

[Liam Twomey]

Enzo Fernández fit at Chelsea: “Often played as a left sided defensive midfielder in a 4-2-3-1, dictating the play and was often the start of Benfica’s attacks”

Graham Potter uses a 4-2-3-1. (The Athletic Football Podcast) #CFC

Probably the last time we wore the Club World Cup badge as the competition kicks off today. #ChampionsOfTheWorld!

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OFFICIAL: Enzo Fernandez will wear the no.5 shirt at Chelsea.

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Malo Gusto vs Stade Brestois:

• Clean Sheet
• 113 touches
• 90% pass accuracy
• 2 chances created
• 7/11 ground duels won
• 2/3 aerial duels won
• 4 fouls drawn (most)
• 3/3 dribbles completed (most)
• 10 recoveries

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For all our English-speaking Blues 🎶👇

"This is La T y La M for Enzo.

From Argentina to England, with the smile of someone that won the third title, a world champion, you already know who it is:

Enzo Fernandez, he's off to London"

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Once Fernandez had finished his game with River, La Recova would be tipped off & as parents Raul & Marta drove Enzo across the city, someone would flick a switch to turn out the floodlights to delay kick-off until their boy wonder had arrived.

[via Mail Sport]

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Enzo Fernández served his suspension in the Champions League on the final group game so isn’t at risk of missing either the 1st or 2nd leg. He has 3 yellows in 5 UCL matches.

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FireSide

Bottom Line- Us against the World

When Roman took over chelsea in 2003, he precedented over a culture of spending to buy talent like non that had ever been witnessed in the English Premier League.

The backlash that followed was outrageous bordering both cynicism and envy. "Dirty Oil Money", they called it. "buying success" others said..... but the tittle that followed thereafter prompted the pessmists to spend their money too. Not because they liked it, but because it was a choice between remaining competitive or go into oblivion.

But the greatest factor for success during that period was Jose Mourinho fostering the "us against the world" mentality and environment. The players believed, The fans believed and the owner believed and the end result was a serial winning machine cultivated from seeds of hate.

It'd be stupid to imagine that everyone would be happy of your success.

This time we are not different.

We will ride the wave.

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FireSide

#TechnicalReport via @goal.com

Champions league squad registration brief

With the confusion surrounding UEFA player registration, here is the criteria that is always used so that we can all understand why we may not be able to register everyone we signed

 • Club can present List A & B

LIST A
 • Not more than 25 players
 • 2/3 goalkeepers must
 • compulsory 8 home grown players. 4 Club trained & 4 Association trained or all Club trained

LIST B
 • Unlimited number
 • Must be born on Or after 1st Jan 2001
 • 2 yrs uninterrupted play in the team or one year loan in same association

JANUARY SIGNINGS
 • only 3 can be picked for list A. The rest must sit out

Training pictures?