{"id":3032,"date":"2026-05-02T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:52:37","slug":"chelsea-watch-perfect-enzo-replacement-who-could-be-relegated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=3032","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea watch perfect Enzo replacement who could be relegated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Matheus Fernandes looks a real talent, and Premier League teams are hovering to see if his club would sell him.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoy Chelsea News coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are always a couple of relegated players who are poached by the big boys, and this could be a bumper year.<\/p>\n<p>The teams that are relegated are going to be of a much higher standard (in terms of their playing staff) than usual, with Spurs and West Ham both at risk.<\/p>\n<h2>West Ham talent being lined up for major summer move<\/h2>\n<p>One player we really like at the latter is Mateus Fernandes, and should the Hammers go down it\u2019s certain he will be poached by someone.<\/p>\n<p>TeamTalk name a number of teams interested in the Portugal international, previously at Southampton. He\u2019s been at the heart of everything good at West Ham since Lucas Paqueta left in January.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham paid more than \u00a340m for the 21 year old, and we can only imagine how massive a fee they would want to sell him. Still, his quality is obvious, and we know we\u2019d love to see Chelsea make a move for him.<\/p>\n<p>If Enzo Fernandez leaves, we could get Fernandes for similar money, and he would bring an extra level of physicality to this team.<\/p>\n<h2>In other news\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>Alejandro Garnacho is simply not developing at Chelsea, and Joe Cole has been speaking about his fears for the winger.<\/p>\n<p>Top German football insider Christian Falk has been speaking about the potential move of Nicolas Jackson across the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CHELSEA NEWS APP FOR ALL THE LATEST UPDATES \u2013 STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON THE APP STORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the latest edition of Simon Phillips\u2019 SPTC podcast here:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPTC Podcast: Leeds fan Jack Durkin joins Jai Mcintosh to preview the FA Cup Semi Final!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/td3C9ns6uiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matheus Fernandes looks a real talent, and Premier League teams are hovering to see if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3032","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\/3032","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=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}