Each Chelsea and Barcelona have seen higher days of their current previous.
It wasn’t that way back when the Blues and the Catalans weren’t solely champions of their respective leagues, but in addition Kings of Europe.
How the mighty have fallen.
From Barca’s standpoint, it’s an extended, laborious highway 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 because the American took over has made it nearly inconceivable for any supervisor to get the very best out of the first-team, with Mauricio Pochettino the most recent to try to achieve this.
One participant that Barcelona may solely dream about having of their first XI at current is Chelsea’s Argentinian midfielder, Enzo Fernandez.
The participant value the West Londoners a cool £106.8m per The Guardian (subscription required), a determine that will be effectively past the Catalans at this level.
Nonetheless, as Sport are reporting, Fernandez seems to be seduced by the concept of enjoying for the Spanish giants, and, by way of his agent, he has apparently supplied himself to the membership.
It appears nearly 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.
