Enzo Fernandez despatched a message on to Chelsea followers slamming him for becoming a member of Man Metropolis in an official assertion.
The 2026/27 Premier League transfer window is formally shut following one of the energetic summers in latest historical past.
Twice this summer season the British switch report was damaged following Manchester City’s £116million spend on Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson and Chelsea’s £117m signing of Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa
In actual fact, within the ultimate hours of the window it was confirmed that Premier League golf equipment have damaged their all-time summer season switch report after spending reached £3.198bn.
Nevertheless, that determine would not even embody the most important switch of the summer season, as simply minutes earlier than the deadline handed, Manchester Metropolis confirmed a £125m deal to signal Chelsea midfielder Fernandez.
The World Cup winner had been pushing for the transfer all through the summer season, as he hoped to be reunited with former Chelsea supervisor and present Metropolis boss Enzo Maresca, resulting in backlash from some followers.
And in his first assertion for the reason that switch was confirmed, Fernandez determined to straight reply to this backlash, calling out how ‘passionate’ followers are.
He wrote: “Life is about making choices, and proper now I discover myself having to make a type of tough choices. I’ve mentioned it earlier than, however I wish to say it once more: I’ve grown extremely keen on this membership. Chelsea will at all times have a spot in my ideas and, above all, in my coronary heart.
“However I additionally perceive how soccer works. I understand how passionate you might be, as a result of I’m the identical. And if I had been in your place, I might most likely be considering the identical approach.”
Regardless of this, many Chelsea followers took to social media to name out their former participant for his assertion, with one writing: “Enzo Fernandez is a snake, good at faking feelings for a membership.”
With one other including: “Enzo Fernandez simply accepted that he made a egocentric resolution.”
In the meantime the snake emoji has flooded the feedback of Fernandez’s assertion on Instagram.
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Enzo Fernandez assertion in full:
“Expensive Chelsea,
“I need you to know that these haven’t been simple days for me. Writing this isn’t simple both. The reality is, I haven’t been in a very good place.
“Three years in the past, Cobham and Stamford Bridge grew to become residence for me and my household. I grew connected to the individuals, to the shirt, and to the badge of this unbelievable membership.
“Imagine me after I say that, from the second I arrived, I grew to become obsessive about successful and with bringing this membership each trophy that its historical past deserves. We suffered, we cried, I acquired indignant many instances, however we additionally celebrated titles and unforgettable victories. Collectively, by the great instances and the tough ones.
“I reside soccer the identical approach I reside my life: with ardour and with all my coronary heart. That’s the reason I need you to know that I perceive you. I actually perceive you, from the underside of my coronary heart.
“However life is about making choices, and proper now I discover myself having to make a type of tough choices. I’ve mentioned it earlier than, however I wish to say it once more: I’ve grown extremely keen on this membership. Chelsea will at all times have a spot in my ideas and, above all, in my coronary heart.
“However I additionally perceive how soccer works. I understand how passionate you might be, as a result of I’m the identical. And if I had been in your place, I might most likely be considering the identical approach.
“I wish to thank each single one in all you: the workers, the teaching workforce, the medical workforce, the physios, and everybody who works at Cobham and all through this nice establishment.
“To all my teammates over these years, thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for sharing so many moments with me. I used to be really blissful right here, and I want you nothing however the perfect for the longer term.
“Thanks for all of the love and assist you may have given me and my household all through these years. I’ll always remember it.
“This group gives you many extra causes to be blissful, and I shall be blissful for you too. By no means doubt that.
“You’ll at all times be in my coronary heart, Blues. I’ll at all times want you, at all times, nothing however the perfect.
“At all times Blue. Thanks, Chelsea. Enzo.”
Fernandez might make his Manchester Metropolis debut as quickly as Saturday as Coventry Metropolis journey to the Etihad Stadium for the third Premier League matchweek of the season.
