A key Chelsea player, amid the recent controversy and the sanction handed down by Rosenior, would submit a transfer request in the coming days.
"Enzo did not understand the situation. When the coach told him, he accepted it because he is a very professional person, always committed to the fullest wherever he is, and he respects the decision, but we do not understand the punishment, because at no point does he mention any club or say that he wants to leave Chelsea.
Quite the opposite; he only names Madrid, the city, because they asked him in which European city he would like to live someday. We will see how things continue after the World Cup," explained Javier Pastore, Enzo Fernandez's agent, after being removed from Chelsea's first team by Liam Rosenior.
After that, the Chelsea coach decided to respond to Rosenior's agent: "I have nothing to say about another person's opinion. Enzo knows what I think of him. It was great to see him here, and now we move on. The conversations I have with my players individually stay in the locker room. And the locker room is sacred."
The point is that amid this tension, Enzo Fernandez would have had to make the toughest decision of all. According to information from The Sun, the Argentine would submit a transfer request, a formal request to declare himself available for transfer and to negotiate an exit in the short term.
A transfer request is a formal, written request a player submits to his club to express his desire to be sold to another team, a common practice in the Premier League. It is a pressure measure to force his exit, although it does not obligate the club to sell him.
Internally, Enzo wants to play for Real Madrid and would seek to force an exit, which initially seems complex. Chelsea wants nothing to do with selling him, and if they were to accept that step, they would demand around 140 million euros, a figure that exceeds Real Madrid's reach.
For Enzo Fernandez, the priority is to finish the season playing to arrive physically in the best shape for the 2026 World Cup with the Argentine national team. After that, the midfielder would begin working on his exit from Chelsea, and the contract renewal the club was considering has been completely frozen.
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