Each Chelsea and Barcelona have seen higher days of their latest previous.
It wasn’t that way back when the Blues and the Catalans weren’t solely champions of their respective leagues, but additionally Kings of Europe.
How the mighty have fallen.
From Barca’s standpoint, it’s a protracted, arduous street again after the tenure of president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, along with his choices inflicting no finish of economic issues for the membership.
Chelsea, seemingly, have fallen off a cliff since Roman Abramovich bought the membership to Todd Boehly/Clearlake Capital.
A haphazard means of approaching every switch market for the reason that American took over has made it virtually inconceivable for any supervisor to get the most effective out of the first-team, with Mauricio Pochettino the newest to attempt to accomplish that.
One participant that Barcelona may solely dream about having of their first XI at current is Chelsea’s Argentinian midfielder, Enzo Fernandez.
The participant price the West Londoners a cool £106.8m per The Guardian (subscription required), a determine that may be effectively past the Catalans at this level.
Nevertheless, as Sport are reporting, Fernandez seems to be seduced by the concept of enjoying for the Spanish giants, and, through his agent, he has apparently supplied himself to the membership.
It appears virtually inconceivable {that a} deal might be constructed to swimsuit all events at this stage, however as we’ve seen many instances earlier than, you by no means say by no means in soccer.
