A target for Liverpool is edging closer to leaving the club for a very expensive price

Spending a massive nine-figure fee on Enzo Fernández is excessive, even by Chelsea's standards, and hardly the kind of decision you would connect with their new head coach, Graham Potter. Liverpool, without a doubt, would have given the Benfica player some thought, the Argentine star, who has only played in European football for six months, 

Was the subject of a "watching brief" by the Reds, according to a summer report from Sky Sports. It's unknown how interested the Reds were in the youngster, but it seems improbable that they would have considered forking over the kind of money needed to sign the 21-year-old this month, Goal reports that Chelsea has offered £112 million ($134 million/€127 million),

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Which is more than his £106 million ($127 million/€120 million) release clause. Benfica only acquired Fernández in the summer for about £9 million ($11 million/€10 million). Even if the sell-on clause he agreed to when he departed South America will require River Plate to pay a share of the money, the profit margin after just a few weeks in Portugal is impressive.

On Twitter, Gary Neville neatly put it this way: "Are Chelsea paying €127m for Enzo Fernández? That is a really steep price, In some aspects, Chelsea are similar to Liverpool in the centre of the field because of the expiring contracts of Jorginho and N'Golo Kanté: they are in dire need of young reinforcements, If Fernández had not performed well in the World Cup, 

<strong>Alternatives for the midfield very soon</strong>

Would Chelsea have made a bid for him? Possibly, but perhaps not at that cost. Even later, Liverpool would have never come close to spending that much that essentially sums up the two main problems Liverpool is dealing with. First, they must decide on their alternatives for the midfield very soon ideally this month but there aren't many young, cheap players to choose from.