Transfer deadline day LIVE: Enzo Fernandez to Man City agreed, Man Utd call on Valverde, Arsenal hunt

By Bobby Vincent

Chelsea and Manchester City have reached a £125million agreement for the transfer of Enzo Fernandez in the final hours of transfer deadline day.

A summer-long transfer saga is reaching its conclusion with Fernandez finally getting his wish to reunite with former Blues head coach Enzo Maresca at the Etihad Stadium. Sources have told football.london that Chelsea have agreed to sell the 25-year-old midfielder for £125m to their Premier League rivals.

That is a club-record sale from Chelsea, who managed to get more than the £120m they initially quoted Man City this summer. As soon as Fernandez made his desire to depart Stamford Bridge clear back in May, Chelsea informed potential suitors they would need to splash £120m to acquire the Argentina international.

Those terms were on the table until earlier this month. Chelsea increased their price tag after no club engaged with their unofficial transfer deadline for Fernandez, at 5pm on August 14. City opened talks with the Blues officially on Monday evening – and that was the first time there has been direct club-to-club contact all summer – and saw an early offer rebuffed for the Argentine.

After an intense day of negotiations on Tuesday, deadline day, the two clubs have finally reached an agreement. Fernandez has been desperate to leave Stamford Bridge all summer-long and while Chelsea were happy to keep him as part of Xabi Alonso’s squad, they were never going to turn down a joint-British transfer record.

The sale of Fernandez means Chelsea will bank beyond £400m this summer, including add-ons. That is a record amount and surpasses the £340m that Paris Saint-Germain received this summer.

In the final hours of the window, Chelsea want to add at least one more player. Manu Kone remains an option but there is an acceptance that striking a deal with AS Roma will prove complicated with manager Gian Piero Gasperini desperate to keep hold of the France international beyond the 11pm deadline.

A deal for Lamine Camara looks more straightforward but nothing is agreed at the time of writing. Chelsea saw a £38.5m offer turned down by AS Monaco for the Senegal international earlier on in the day but remain locked in talks with the Ligue 1 club.