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Chelsea person dropped their record signing Enzo Fernandez for 2 matches aft the midfielder publically formed uncertainty implicit his aboriginal astatine Stamford Bridge, manager Liam Rosenior said connected Friday.
The Argentine World Cup victor has been axed for Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final against Port Vale and next Sunday's Premier League clash with Manchester City.
Fernandez, who has been wearing the captain's armband successful the absence of injured Reece James, said helium would “look astatine his options aft the World Cup” and expressed a tendency to unrecorded successful Spain.
"I spoke with Enzo an hr ago. As a shot club, with maine arsenic portion of that process, we've made a determination he won't beryllium disposable for tomorrow's crippled (against Port Vale) and helium won't beryllium disposable for Manchester City adjacent Sunday," Rosenior told reporters.
The 25-year-old midfielder, who is contracted until 2032, has been linked with a determination to Real Madrid, though helium denied talks with the Spanish nine were taking place.
'Disappointing leadership’
Rosenior described Fernandez's nationalist comments arsenic "disappointing" fixed his enactment relation during Chelsea's current problems.
The Blues person mislaid 4 consecutive games, exiting the Champions League successful an 8-2 aggregate humiliation by Paris St Germain and person slumped to sixth successful the Premier League.
"I deliberation for Enzo it's disappointing to talk successful that way. What I volition accidental astir Enzo is that, successful presumption of him arsenic a person, I've got nary atrocious words to say," Rosenior added. "But a enactment was crossed successful presumption of our culture and what we privation to build, truthful we had to marque a sanction."
The Telegraph reported that respective Chelsea players were unimpressed by Fernandez berating his teammates connected the pitch.
"The door is not closed connected Enzo, that's precise important. It's a sanction," Rosenior said. "You person to support this nine and culture," helium said. "The enactment was crossed successful the planetary break.
"What I bash cognize is that erstwhile he's been connected the pitch, adjacent successful the nonaccomplishment astatine Everton, determination was no deficiency of committedness successful his performance."
Fernandez’s cause criticises Chelsea’s ‘unfair’ ban
Enzo Fernandez’s cause Javier Pastore has criticised Chelsea’s decision to prohibition the midfielder, saying the Argentina planetary does not recognize the punishment.
“The punishment is wholly unfair,” Pastore told the Athletic newspaper.
“There’s nary existent crushed oregon justification for wherefore helium has been banned. Enzo didn’t recognize the situation.”
“When the manager told him, helium accepted it because he’s a highly nonrecreational feline who’s ever afloat committed, wherever helium is, and respects decisions,” Pastore said.
“But we don’t recognize the punishment due to the fact that helium doesn’t notation immoderate nine oregon accidental he wants to permission Chelsea, acold from it.”
