Manchester City continue to strengthen their midfield after the Ayoub Bouaddi deal<\/p>\n
Chelsea’s Argentine midfielder Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez has moved closer to a record-breaking transfer to Manchester City, according to Eduardo Burgos, a journalist at Spain’s “AS” <\/strong><\/b>on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n According to Burgos, the switch is now a matter of hours away after the English club agreed personal terms with the player.<\/p>\n Read also<\/p>\n Mourinho on his return to the Bernab\u00e9u: I have changed after all these years<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Official Egyptian celebration of the historic partnership with Barcelona<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Work is under way to finalise a deal worth a record sum, the same source added. Meanwhile, the London club agreed with manager Xabi Alonso to leave Fern\u00e1ndez out of the squad for the trip to Luton, a 2-0 Chelsea win on Thursday in the English Football League Cup.<\/p>\n Fern\u00e1ndez nears the exit door after three and a half seasons at Chelsea, who signed him from Portugal’s Benfica in January 2023 on the back of his outstanding displays with Argentina and his crowning as a 2022 World Cup winner in Qatar.<\/p>\n Chelsea had earlier priced the Argentina international at 120 million pounds sterling. That figure was the main obstacle facing Manchester City in the negotiations.<\/p>\n Talk of Fern\u00e1ndez’s future has swirled since late last season, when he hinted at a desire to join Real Madrid. The Spanish giants instead turned to Portugal international Bernardo Silva from Manchester City.<\/p>\n You can discuss topics and news in greater depth on the “Kooora” forums.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City continue to strengthen their midfield after the Ayoub Bouaddi deal Chelsea’s Argentine midfielder Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1173251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[21116,748,86223,885,318162,1925,318161,316469,393,4884,35556,2465,886,101,16,15],"class_list":["post-1173250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-brighton-hove-albion","tag-britain","tag-carabao-cup","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-vs-luton-town","tag-crystal-palace","tag-crystal-palace-vs-manchester-city","tag-e-fernandez","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-luton-town","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117170362474954689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}