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Enzo Fernández and Rodri would quite like to move to Madrid; many people would. They both said as much in the international break, those special parts of the season when players join up with their national teams and give interviews while apparently unaware that media are global these days: a whisper on Luzo TV can soon become a hurricane in London.

But Rodri will line up for Manchester City at Chelsea on Sunday, while Fernández will not, https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/07/enzo-fernandez-may-captain-chelsea-again-despite-being-dropped-for-madrid-comments">suspended by the club for “crossing a line”.

It’s worth, perhaps, looking at exactly what was said.

Fernández expressed disappointment at https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/01/enzo-maresca-leaves-chelsea-breakdown-relations">Enzo Maresca’s departure on New Year’s Day. “It … hurt a lot,” he told Luzo, “because we had a lot of identity, he gave us order, but it’s the way that football is, sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad.

But we always had a clear identity when it came to training, playing and obviously his departure hurt us especially in the middle of the season – it cuts everything short.” Sadness that a manager has gone surely isn’t a crime; it could even be supportive of Liam Rosenior and the difficulty of taking over a club mid-season.

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