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Chelsea are like “a kid in a sweet shop after being given a tenner by their gran”, says the Telegraph’s Luke Edwards, as links to Benfica midfielder Enzo Fernandez intensify.

The Blues have already made six signings this month and a potential £100m+ move for the Argentina star would push them beyond half a billion pounds spent across two transfer windows.

“I thought there was no way this would re-emerge,” Edwards told the Transfer Gossip Daily podcast.

“They obviously like him and have not taken no for an answer but everything they do seems so unhinged.”

Fernandez has a £105m release clause in his Benfica contract that Chelsea appear willing to meet, if allowed to pay in instalments.