Enzo Fernandez to Real Madrid: Agent confirms exit push as Los Blancos deny all interest
Javier Pastore has openly admitted Enzo Fernández is exploring options to leave Chelsea this summer, but Real Madrid have fired back with a blunt official statement, categorically denying they’ve made a single move for the Argentine.
The statement landed on Friday. Terse, pointed, and unusually direct even by Madrid’s standards. The club insisted they had not pursued Fernández directly or indirectly, and had no intention of doing so. That came hours after Pastore, the former PSG playmaker now acting as Fernández’s representative, handed Spanish outlet Marca what amounted to a full confirmation of the player’s desire to leave west London. “We are looking at possibilities to leave Chelsea,” Pastore said, before adding that nothing was firm or confirmed with any club. (Via ESPN)
Enzo Fernandez to Real Madrid: What the agent actually said
Pastore’s comments were careful in phrasing but unmistakable in intent. Asked directly whether Fernández could end up at the Bernabéu, the agent steered the conversation rather than closed it down. He pointed out that the player has close ties to Madrid, personal ones, too. “I’d like to live in Madrid. I really like it, it’s similar to Buenos Aires.” Pastore himself lives there. Julián Álvarez is there. The affinity is genuine, not manufactured.
Chelsea dropped Fernández for two matches last season after those comments surfaced during an international break. He made comments suggesting he wants to move to Madrid while playing under former head coach Liam Rosenior, which earned him a two-game ban. Pastore criticised that punishment at the time and hasn’t softened his position since.
Enzo Fernandez to Real Madrid: Chelsea’s asking price and the player’s 2025-26 form
The Blues don’t want to sell. That much is clear. Chelsea are expected to demand a fee in the region of £120 million if Fernández tries to force his way out of the club this summer. He’s contracted until 2032, earns £180,000 a week according to Capology, and spent the 2025-26 Premier League campaign proving exactly why the club rate him so highly.
Fernández scored 10 goals and registered four assists across 36 Premier League appearances, accumulating 3,121 minutes on the pitch, second in Chelsea’s top-scorers list for the season, per FootyStats. Across the 2024-25 and 2025-26 campaigns combined, only Bruno Fernandes and Mohamed Salah registered more assists in all competitions than him, with Fernández reaching 24 assists over that two-season stretch. Remarkable numbers for a box-to-box midfielder in a Chelsea side that finished 10th and missed European football entirely.
That lack of continental football complicates everything. The Blues failed to qualify for European football after finishing 10th in the Premier League, and the world’s best players rarely accept a move to a club not even competing in UEFA’s lowest competition. Xabi Alonso, who formally took charge on 1 July, faces an uphill task keeping hold of someone operating at Fernández’s level.
Madrid, meanwhile, need a world-class midfielder after two consecutive trophyless seasons, a vulnerability that has been apparent since the departures of Luka Modrić and Toni Kroos. Los Blancos have since ruled out a move, and Fernández now faces the prospect of being forced to remain at Chelsea despite his desire to leave. Arsenal and Manchester City are reportedly gathering information on the Argentine as they eye an ambitious summer move, per Italian journalist Gianluigi Longari.
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Argentina’s World Cup campaign continues in North America. Fernández, entirely focused on that for now, won’t have this resolved any time soon.
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