Chelsea make a record €119million bid for Enzo Fernandes and hope to finalize his move from Benfica

Chelsea have made a €119m bid for Ben­fi­ca star Enzo Fernandes.

If the bid goes through, it would break the UK trans­fer record.

Accord­ing to The Tele­graph, the Blues are con­fi­dent that a deal will be reached.

Man­ag­er Gra­ham Pot­ter is report­ed­ly ful­ly back­ing the club to sign the 22-year-old.

Chelsea tried to sign him ear­li­er this month, but Ben­fi­ca ruled the €68m and €100m bids insuf­fi­cient and turned down the move.

Fer­nan­des has a €119m release clause that Chelsea want to pay.

How­ev­er, I would like to spread out the pay­ments by pay­ing a large amount up front and then send­ing small­er amounts of mon­ey to Por­tu­gal in five installments.

This leaves room for nego­ti­a­tions between the two clubs.

Fer­nan­des wants to move to Chelsea and needs the approval of Ben­fi­ca pres­i­dent Rui Cos­ta, but per­son­al terms are not con­sid­ered to be a prob­lem at this stage.

The Argen­tin­ian star, who won the Young Play­er of the Tour­na­ment award at the Qatar World Cup, has come to the atten­tion of Chelsea.

If the trans­fer does mate­ri­al­ize, it would exceed the €113million paid by Man­ches­ter City for Jack Gre­al­ish in the sum­mer of 2021.

He also breaks Chelsea’s trans­fer record by sur­pass­ing the €111m he spent on Romelu Lukaku.

Fer­nan­dez is the eighth play­er to sign in the Jan­u­ary trans­fer win­dow, fol­low­ing big play­ers such as Mihai­lo Madryc, Noni Madueque and Benoît Badiashile.

The club have spent €513m since Todd Boel­hy took over, and Fer­nan­des will make well over €569m.

Ever­ton have made a €51million bid for Conor Gal­lagher and the club have been able to recoup their money.

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