Virgil van Dijk transfer comment made after blockbuster Chelsea deal

Chelsea news: The Blues face transfer record challenge as Enzo Fernandez gets highest compliment of them all

Record signings and Chelsea don't go well together. They've broken the British transfer record multiple times in their history now while even internally they haven't done that well.

His challenge to beat the previous British transfer record holders for Chelsea isn't too hard. Fernando Torres achieved a solid amount but didn't score the goals of a £50m player in that time. Andriy Shevchenko was a Ballon d'Or winner and was even worse than Torres.

Ray Parlour agrees. The former Arsenal man has admitted that it's a huge cash sum to pay but that it's possible to get your money's worth for him too. Speaking to AceOdds he said: "Well, he's a young lad, but from what I've seen so far he looks good, he really has. He looks like he can adapt right into the Premier League straight away.

"But in this day and age, prices are so inflated. You go back to Virgil van Dijk going to Liverpool for £70 million. Everybody was like '£70 million for a centre half?' Now what he's achieved at Liverpool has been amazing. No one worries about the fee after that. He's been money well spent from Liverpool's point of view.

"I think Fernandez could be the same. Now he's got to knuckle down. He's a young lad, he's only going to improve, he's played in the World Cup winning side in Argentina."

"I think the money is definitely inflated," Parlour continued. "But that's the going rate right now. People have release causes in their contract and you've got to meet these causes, or you don't sign them.

"I think that he's gonna be a good signing and I think in three or four years time, people might forget about how much he was when he's doing well for Chelsea."

That is the ultimate goal here. Chelsea have consistently had tags attached to players. The £100m man. They were determined to keep the price below £80m for Wesley Fofana over the summer to ensure that didn't effect him while Marc Cucurella's price tag has already had an impact on his state, evidence of the weight it can carry.