Chelsea news: Stunning £106M transfer message sent as midfielder heading towards move
Pundit Greame Souness has come out and criticized Chelsea for their transfer policy, as there have been players like Enzo Fernandez that will never live upto the expectations that the club placed on his head when the star got signed for £106 million.
Fernandez began the season as a key player under the CHELSEA boss, captaining the side as he started six of their opening seven games, but he was named among the subs in against Liverpool and Newcastle United however with his only starts in recent weeks coming in the Europa Conference League and Carabao Cup.
Since returning from a hamstring injury, Romeo Lavia has been part of that, partnering Moises Caicedo in midfield and there has been alot of transfer speculation in the media that he is one player the club may look to sell in the upcoming windows.
What has been said about Fernandez?
Graeme Souness has now taken aim at Chelsea and Fernandez – told William Hill’s podcast, Three Up Front: “It’s still very early to pass any sort of judgement on Chelsea. With their current group of players, they have a chance of finishing in the top four, but they’re still some way off winning the Premier League or Champions League.
‘From the current squad, I think there’ll be an enormous wastage of players and a lot of them will never live up to the levels that people think they will. The most obvious one for me is someone who isn’t even in the team at the moment, Enzo Fernandez, on whom they spent £105 million. They’ve bought a load of players who won’t reach the level they would’ve hoped.”
Souness also criticised the club’s transfer policy: “I think there was a different way they could’ve done it. They just went out with a scattergun approach, buying everyone and anyone of a certain age that popped up.
‘They’re just storing up more problems for themselves further down the line. The case in point would be Raheem Sterling, who they’ve basically had to give away. They’re going to be confronted with that same situation at least another half-a-dozen times.
‘Players will not live up to the expectation, become surplus to requirements, be sat on seven-year contracts and not want to leave Chelsea unless they get offered a big golden handshake to walk out the door.
‘CHELSEA will get no value for them when they sell them because they’re deemed to be a failure, and they’ll have to pay them to leave. That’s not a sustainable business model.”
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