Chelsea signs World Cup winner Enzo Fernández for British-record transfer fee of $132 million

Chelsea set a British transfer record with the signing of Argentina’s World Cup winner Enzo Fernández from Benfica for £107 million ($132 million), the Portuguese club announced on Tuesday. Fernández’s fee eclipses the reported £100 million ($123 million) Manchester City paid for Jack Grealish and concludes a high-spending transfer window for Chelsea. The London club – currently 10th in the Premier League and in the middle of a disappointing run of results – has spent liberally under the new ownership group led by American investor Todd Boehly, notably acquiring Mykhailo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk in a deal worth $110 million in total.