{"id":15552,"date":"2026-07-08T21:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15552"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:14:49","slug":"well-see-what-happens-chelsea-star-refuses-to-commit-future-to-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15552","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens\u201d \u2013 Chelsea star refuses to commit future to Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea star Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez says he\u2019s not thinking about his future amid claims of interest from elsewhere. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Sport Witness relayed news of Manchester City and Arsenal making contact for the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City have appointed Enzo Maresca as their new manager, and he joined them after leaving Chelsea in January. His presence may give the Etihad club an edge over the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina international\u2019s agent, Javier Pastore, has confirmed he wants to leave the Blues and is working on finding solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Pastore also said Real Madrid are keen, while Los Blancos have confirmed they have no intention to pursue his signing.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea player happy with his goal<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, Argentina came from 2-0 down to beat Egypt 3-2 in the World Cup. Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez starred for La Albiceleste by scoring the late winner. The result also means the national team face Switzerland in the quarter final on Sunday (UK time).<\/p>\n<p>After the match, DAZN caught up with the Chelsea midfielder, who expressed his joy over Argentina\u2019s latest win and his role in it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI have an incredible mix of feelings. I\u2019m so grateful and privileged to be living these moments,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI knew Lautaro was going to take the lead, and I got into the box. He crossed it, and I went in hard. I\u2019m so happy to win, to help my teammates, my team, and to advance to the next round.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea star didn\u2019t defuse transfer links <\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_572513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-572513\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-572513\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/enzofernandez.jpg\" alt=\"Enzo Fernandez\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/enzofernandez.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/enzofernandez-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/enzofernandez-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/enzofernandez-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/enzofernandez-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/enzofernandez-681x454.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-572513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London, United Kingdom \u2013 09 30 2025: Enzo Fernandez seen during Champions League league phase game between Chelsea FC and SL Benfica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DAZN put it to Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez that there are claims linking him to Real Madrid and other top clubs. The La Liga giants were named despite publicly ruling out a move.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to that, Fern\u00e1ndez explained:<em> \u201cI\u2019m not thinking about my future right now. I\u2019m here living this incredible moment for me, and we\u2019ll see what happens after the World Cup.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has refused to close the door on a Chelsea exit, after his agent confirmed he wants to leave Xabi Alonso\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>If Argentina progress to the semi final, they will play one more match (third-place or final). In that case, the midfielder will be with the national team until the end of next week and then think about his Chelsea future.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n        <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea star Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez says he\u2019s not thinking about his future amid claims of interest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}