Enzo Fernandez: Chelsea's record-breaking €120m man
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
David Ornstein and Liam Twomey join Mark Chapman to analyse Chelsea's British Transfer Record deal to sign World Cup winning Enzo Fernandez.
The panel discuss how Chelsea managed to pull off the deal to sign the Argentine, the level of finance involved as well as taking a deeper look at the Blues' approach in the transfer market.
Also, having spent over £600m since Todd Boehly's takeover what pressure is there on Graham Potter to deliver immediate results?
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| 0:51.7 | The Athletic. So coming up today, it's all about Chelsea and their phenomenal spending in the January |
| 0:59.7 | transfer window. |
| 1:01.1 | Topped off as it closed with a British record deal for Enzo Fernandez. |
| 1:05.8 | Now, we had planned to do one show wrapping up everything that happened, but given the amount |
| 1:09.8 | of money spent, the story's created, we're going to do two pods on this. So one today and one tomorrow |
| 1:15.7 | focused on the biggest stories surrounding all of the drama. I'm Mark Chapman. This is the |
| 1:21.8 | athletic football podcast. The window. The window is done. |
| 1:29.2 | Enzo Fernandez to Chelsea is done. |
| 1:32.8 | Rolls it into Fernandez. |
| 1:34.3 | Open up his body and scores brilliantly. |
| 1:36.8 | Right at the beginning of the transfer window, he was the priority. |
| 1:39.5 | And it's taken, what, a month of negotiating. |
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