{"id":576243,"date":"2026-04-10T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:43:09","slug":"chelsea-enzo-fernandez-sorry-for-madrid-comments-but-will-miss-man-city-says-liam-rosenior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576243\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea: Enzo Fernandez sorry for Madrid comments but will miss Man City, says Liam Rosenior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/a> midfielder Enzo Fernandez will remain unavailable for the upcoming home match against Manchester City<\/a> despite apologising for recent comments about Madrid, head coach Liam Rosenior says.<\/p>\n

Fernandez was handed a two-match internal ban by the club last week after he gave an interview during the international break in which he expressed his admiration for the city of Madrid. <\/p>\n

The Argentine has repeatedly been linked with a move to La Liga club Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

His agent, Javier Pastore, said this week that “we cleared the air” with Chelsea<\/a> after Fernandez missed last Saturday’s 7-0 FA Cup victory against Port Vale, and had hoped that the ban would be reduced to one match. <\/p>\n

However, Rosenior says Fernandez will miss Sunday’s Premier League fixture against Manchester City<\/a> as Chelsea<\/a> have decided to stick to their original punishment, despite the Argentine apologising for his comments.<\/p>\n

“I had three or four [conversations] with Enzo,” said Rosenior.<\/p>\n

“He’s apologised to me, he’s apologised to the club, and we’ll deal with that after a massive game on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez will remain unavailable for the upcoming home match against Manchester City despite apologising for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-576243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}