Enzo Maresca answers questions on the future of players at the club
18/08/2024
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
18/08/2024
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
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00:00I just said I think the performance was was good unless the results that we
00:16don't like to lose I think the performance was there we compete for me
00:21in this moment probably against the best team in the world we compete for large
00:25part of the game at the same level for some moment we were even better we
00:29create chances and I think the big difference today between us and them
00:33was especially inside the box and the way they managed the ball the last part
00:38of the game that they are master on that but overall I think the performance was
00:42was quite good
00:45The reason why is because Nicholas was injured, Cole was not with us, Christo
01:01worked with us since day one but I think all of them they did they did a good
01:08game we use Christo already in different position but I think all of them today
01:15even Romeo, Caicedo, Moyes I think all of them they did they did a very good game
01:35No yeah I think Enzo is one of the the captain of this this team is not the
01:40only one we have Rhys we have some more captain there and the reason why is
01:44because I can see that his teammates they recognize him like a reference like
01:50a captain and he was already captain in the preseason when we changed Rhys
01:55during the game so this the reason why I said already before the game I think all
02:00of us we make mistake it's important to recognize Enzo did a mistake recognize
02:05the mistake and it's finished and the end is nothing nothing important
02:15Just because I think he's been investigated at the moment and also there's been quite a lot of controversy
02:19so do you think it's the message that it sends that he's their main captain
02:24I'm just interested in your take on it
02:26No I think I don't know you but I did mistake in the past and I recognize and
02:31I think as a human being if you did a mistake and you recognize you are not
02:35going to be punished all life so Enzo did a mistake recognize for me is one of
02:40the reference and I don't have nothing to add
02:44You said Raheem was a technical decision but was it the same for Axel Desarcy, Ben Cherwell and Karni Troublemaker?
02:51No Axel is back from the injury it's not still 100% Chile in the last three days
02:57he has been ill and the other one was?
03:00Karni Troublemaker
03:01No Karni has been taking a decision
03:04Does that show maybe that these are good players, two of them that you've left out for technical decisions
03:10Is it a bit too much in the squad? Is selling players very important?
03:16No I think I said already until the window transfer finish close we can sell players
03:23or we can buy players in the moment that finish it's close probably it's much
03:27better but not only for me for all the manager in the world but it has been
03:33difficult to take the first 11 the reason why is because we had some more
03:37players on the bench that probably they deserve to start to play like I don't
03:41know like Mischa or like some different player but sometimes you have to take
03:46a decision
03:49You worry players won't be very happy with you though if there's players being left out for technical decisions
03:54even if you're not in the squad is that going to be hard for you to manage?
03:58No no I don't think so I don't think so it's my job to manage these kind of
04:02things I don't have any problem I'm here to take decisions sometimes
04:06player likes sometimes no but I said already many times I play football for
04:1020 years and when you train and you don't play you are not happy but it's not all
04:14the players they are the same
04:31No I think they compete very well I think all the team all the players they
04:35compete very well I said probably the big difference between us has been very
04:38tiny very small for instance the first goal for them was was almost offside the
04:44goal that we scored with the Nicolas was almost inside it's tiny difference and
04:48we create chances we didn't take the chances but for me the difference
04:52between us and them today was inside the box
04:55What do you think of their performance?
05:04I think it was I think it was very good performance from all of them
05:20I don't know the only thing I can say again that has been taken a decision and
05:24in next day probably we're gonna see it and clarify the situation but it's
05:27nothing nothing more than that then for all the players that in this moment they
05:32are Chelsea player if they're gonna be Chelsea player we're gonna try to use
05:35them but no more than taking a decision
05:45I want Raheem Sterling but I want all the 30 players that we have but there is
05:50no space for all of them so for some of them they are they have to leave
05:55I think every case is a bit different for instance in case of a Carney I think
06:20it's very good player the problem is because of some injury in the past I
06:24think the best thing for him is to play 30-35 games in a row and to show himself
06:30that he's fit and how good he is because he's very good with us is he going to
06:35play 35 games I'm not sure so it's a bit it's a big difference again for Raheem
06:41it's just taking a decision in the next day we see we clarify the situation if
06:45we need to clarify and no more than that
06:54you said before the game you're happy with the progress you've made so far
06:58has the first game changed your perspective?
07:01no absolutely I think I think today again I think we were better than last
07:06game against Inter and this is the most important thing to improve game after
07:10game that for me is very clear that we are improving and the direction is the
07:15right direction I said the other day in my expectation I didn't think that the
07:19team was already so ahead so I think the direction is the good one I don't have
07:23any doubt that with day by day this team is getting better and we're gonna have
07:29days where we win games and we are all more happy
07:32thank you