'Trust the players, trust the coach': Enzo Fernandez sends clear message to Chelsea fans

Enzo Fernandez has a message for Chelsea’s fans and even though he had to deliver it through a translator, it came across loud and clear.

“Trust the players, trust the backroom staff, trust the manager,” he said. “Never forget that we are representing you, that we are trying to win games, starting on Sunday. Then we can start to turn things around.”

Having won the World Cup with Argentina and become the most expensive player in British football history after Chelsea signed him from Benfica for just over £106million, Fernandez has landed at Stamford Bridge in the eye of a storm.

Despite some impressive personal performances, Fernandez is still yet to experience victory with Chelsea and, ahead of Sunday’s trip to Tottenham Hotspur, head coach Graham Potter is under fire from fans who booed the team off after last Saturday’s defeat to Southampton.

“I would encourage the fans to be patient,” said Fernandez, who has started English lessons but communicated through a translator in Spanish. “We have got a lot of new faces here and it is a restructuring of the club and the playing staff. Trust us.”

The assured way in which Fernandez, who only turned 22 this year, holds himself is striking and he was wholly believable when he insisted his enormous price tag will not weigh heavily. As one Chelsea insider put it: “The kid’s got spunk.”

“The amount of money that is paid has nothing to do with me, it’s something that I take really naturally,” said Fernandez. “It’s part of football and my job is to go out on the field and give my best at all times. I am conscious of the faith they [Chelsea] have shown in me and I want to repay that.”