Exclusive Timo Werner: Enzo Fernandez's price tag? It's completely normal nowadays

Part 2 of the interview with Timo Werner, exclusive by Alessandro Schiavone

Part one was in Sun Sport three weeks ago: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/21454359/champions-league-chelsea-thomas-tuchel-leipzig/

Such has the squad upheaval been since last August that Timo Werner would wonder whether he was still at Chelsea should he walk into their dressing room today.

Of the 11 players that started against Dortmund on Tuesday night, six played for other clubs during the 2021/2022 season, Werner’s last at the club.

Of the new faces engineering the 2-0 win over the German giants, Koulibaly was still barking out orders at Napoli last term, Raheem Sterling was closing in on his fourth Premier League title with Man City, Wesley Fofana was nursing an injury at Leicester City, Marc Cucurella was coming of age at Brighton City, Enzo Fernandez was still relatively unknown to European football followers while at Argentine giants River Plate and Joao Felix was trying to make it work with Diego Simeone at Atletico Madrid.

Yet fast forward to today, all of these players were signed up by filthy rich billionaire owner Todd Boehly.

Last but not least Graham Potter replaced Thomas Tuchel a week or so after Werner returned to Leipzig.

Although on one hand he finds the revamp “strange”, he believes that the merry-go-round of players is completely normal once a new owner comes in.

Werner exclusively told Capital Football: “I think when I left we were the same squad that won the Champions League.

“Of course, it’s a bit weird that it changed so quickly but at the end you have to say: it’s always something new when new owners come in because he wants to bring in his own signings.

“It doesn’t matter if we talk about players or stuff. I think the revolution is completely normal and that’s how it is going at Chelsea. Still, I am pretty sure they’re good enough to win titles with the new squad.”

Argentine World Cup winner Fernandez joined from Benfica for a British record £107m (121m euro) transfer fee.

But given the time and age we’re living in, it hasn’t shocked Werner, who cost himself £72.9, although over two transfer transactions, from RB Leipzig to Chelsea and back.

To the question whether he ever felt the pressure, he said: “In these times, it is normal to be paid these kinds of transfer fees for players.

“For example, what should players now say in the moment like Enzo Fernandez who was paid 120 million?

“It’s football nowadays, the market is like this. And we have to go for it. Whatever you cost or how much you earn…on the pitch you have to give everything. Money doesn’t matter.”