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Former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel reportedly disagreed with owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali over the need to sign new midfielders - before the German was sacked and the club moved to sign Enzo Fernandez for £107million. 

Fernandez became the record British transfer buy after he finally completed his move to Stamford Bridge from Benfica to cap off a spending frenzy of around £300m from the Blues this month alone.

Boehly has wasted no time stamping his mark on the club since his £4billion takeover from Roman Abramovich last summer - splashing out around £500m on 15 players this season in a vote of confidence to manager Graham Potter.

But he and co-owner Eghbali did not see eye-to-eye with former boss Tuchel over certain transfers, with a report from the Times claiming the German was opposed to the club bringing in a new midfielder - despite their expensive outlay on Fernandez.

After Boehly had taken control at Chelsea, he began mapping out what positions he wanted to strengthen and consulted with Tuchel, the report claims. 

But after identifying midfield as an area that needed to be

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