{"id":2823,"date":"2026-06-12T09:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:45:24","slug":"chelsea-should-ditch-enzo-fernandez-and-make-swap-deal-for-real-madrid-midfielder-says-former-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea should ditch Enzo Fernandez and make swap deal for Real Madrid midfielder, says former star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p><span>The underlying friction between Fernandez and the Chelsea hierarchy has intensified following the club&#8217;s disastrous campaign, which saw the Blues finish 10th in the final 2025-26 Premier League table and completely miss out on European qualification for next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Petit insisted that the current relationship between the club and the player has become entirely untenable, adding: &#8220;Enzo Fernandez should go, you cannot keep a player happy if he wants to leave. He did say that he wanted to leave and he was fined by the club. I know he&#8217;s probably been one of the best players for Chelsea for the last two years, but you cannot be the captain of the team and have this kind of communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Obviously he wants to leave the club, we are not stupid. I think he&#8217;s been fed up and tired with what&#8217;s going on at Chelsea. It&#8217;s been a mess this season. Obviously he is targeted by Real Madrid. Real Madrid desperately needs to get some strong and powerful midfield players. I won&#8217;t be surprised if he leaves the club and goes to Real Madrid or somewhere else.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The underlying friction between Fernandez and the Chelsea hierarchy has intensified following the club&#8217;s disastrous campaign, which saw the Blues&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}