the Chelsea News
·20. Dezember 2024
the Chelsea News
·20. Dezember 2024
Two of Chelsea’s hero goalscorers from this week could actually leave the club very soon after Enzo Maresca takes surprise stance.
Maresca has been speaking after seeing his side thrash Shamrock Rovers last night in the Europa Conference League to win the group and end the league stage with a 100% record.
This competition has been great for Chelsea in a sense that it has allowed them to be able to rest all of their key players who play every league game, and put out a ‘B-team’ lineup. It’s given opportunities for minutes for many fringe players as well as academy players. I do think this has been a great way to keep players content as well as reducing injuries.
However, it has a down side, and that down side is having such a big squad full of quality to be able to do this, and some players will become unhappy over not playing. And that is what has happened now.
Dewsbury-Hall off already?
Maresca’s surprise comments after the game suggest that players such as Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Marc Guiu, and more, may well ask to leave next month. And the way he has been so honest with his answers here really does tell me that we are likely to see some surprise departures of players who only just joined in the summer, next month!
Guiu bagged a hat-trick last night and Dewsbury-Hall also slotted home a nice little finish.
“Marc [Guiu] is a bit unhappy as Nicolas [Jackson] and Christopher [Nkunku] are doing well,” Maresca explained.
“When you’re a No9 and another No9 is doing well, it is a matter of being questioned. It is important that they work hard day by day and then they get a chance.”
Asked whether he could guarantee summer signing Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, would not be leaving amid speculation over an immediate loan return to Leicester, Maresca said: “Unfortunately, I cannot say that. Not about Kiernan or about all the squad. When the transfer window is open anything can happen.
“We don’t want one of our players to leave but the problem is that sometimes the question is more for them. Sometimes they say: ‘Okay, you don’t want me to leave [but] I’m not happy, I want to play more.’
“In that case, we are not going to say: ‘No, you have to stay’. It’s a matter of agreement between the club and the player.”
Maresca also said he will wait to see how the January window plays out before deciding whether to add Cole Palmer, Wesley Fofana and Romeo Lavia to his European squad.
“It depends also a bit about the January transfer window,” Maresca said. “It depends if players will leave or arrive. Talking this moment about the next squad, I don’t know, we don’t have any idea.”
This tells me that both players mentioned above could ask to leave and if any player does ask to go, then the club will look to sell.
Quotes via The Evening Standard.