Benfica coach Roger Schmidt has slammed Chelsea over their pursuit of Enzo Fernandez.
Chelsea and Benfica are haggling over a fee for the Argentine.
Schmidt says the delays are sending 21-year-old Fernandez “crazy” as the player looks for clarity over his future.
“There is a club who want our player,” said Schmidt. “They know we don’t want to sell the player. They try to get the player on their side, and they know they can only [buy] the player by paying the release clause, so it’s a very clear situation.
“What the club is doing is disrespectful against all of us [at] Benfica, and I cannot accept what they are doing.
“To make the player crazy and then pretend they can pay the clause and then want to [in the last money] negotiate, is not what I understand to be a good relationship between clubs who which to discuss [a transfer].”