Real Madrid have been linked with a move for Benfica midfielder Enzo Fernandez. However, it seemed Chelsea wanted to jump ships and sign the 21-year-old midfielder.

It now seems that Benfica aren’t happy with Chelsea’s approach, and Benfica boss Roger Schmidt has lashed out at Chelsea over their pursuit of midfielder Enzo Fernandez.

According to Schmidt, Chelsea have been ‘disrespectful’ in the manner of their approach.

Chelsea moved to agree personal terms with Enzo Fernandez, but are trying not to pay his release clause of €120m.

Benfica believe Chelsea’s approach has forced Fernandez to even skip Benfica training to return to Argentina without permission in an attempt to force through a transfer.

An angry Schmidt has revealed: “I want to start by saying that Enzo is a very good boy and a fantastic player.

“We like him very much and we want him to stay. But his situation is not easy.

“He played in a World Cup, was World Champion and there’s a lot of money on the table. A player can get confused when he thinks about it and I think it’s a situation that everyone understands.

“He wasn’t allowed to go to Argentina, he missed training and that’s not acceptable. There will be consequences.

“We don’t want to sell Enzo, neither I nor the president. We all know that he has a clause in his contract. If he wants to leave and if someone pays this clause, we can do nothing.

“There is a club who want our player, they know we don’t want to sell, they try to get the player on their side when they know they can only get this player when they pay the clause. It’s a clear situation, what the club who is trying to buy Enzo is doing is disrespectful against all of us, against Benfica. I cannot accept what they are doing.

“To make the player crazy, to pretend they can pay the clause and later they want to negotiate, it’s not what I understand about good relationships between clubs who maybe want to discuss about a player.”