Enzo Maresca on Chelsea's second team facing Shamrock Rovers in Conference league
18/12/2024
Cobham training centre, Surrey, UK
18/12/2024
Cobham training centre, Surrey, UK
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00:00Good afternoon and welcome to our matchday minus one press conference ahead of tomorrow's Europa Conference League game
00:07against Shamrock Rovers
00:09We will begin with Paul Gilmour and Sky Sports News
00:20Yeah, I think
00:21now the situation is a bit more clear in terms of we have a statement from the club and
00:27the club already said
00:30What do we need to say? So there is not
00:33anything to add unless that the club the coaching staff and all
00:39The people that they are inside the training ground we support and we trust Misha
00:49But general
00:50Support in terms of first of all, we trust Misha and second when these kind of things happen
00:57You you need to you need to support your player in in all the aspect
01:09No, no, it's also it's it's general it's Misha it's it's it's Chelsea player but
01:17it's
01:18For sure is one of the player that is involved in the squad. So it's also my
01:23My duty to to be to be in contact with him and
01:27Me the club the players the teammates. We are already we are all there
01:37Not yet
01:40How do you
01:48Know I don't think so in terms of it's not the first time that this happened. It's already happened in the past
01:54It's not unfortunately happened with us, but it's going to happen again for this different player
02:00but I think they know exactly
02:03What they have to do and this is the reason why we trust and we support Misha
02:09We've got call of a mind
02:17I don't think so
02:26Yeah, absolutely just that we are all
02:32Upset sad and we are there to support Misha. I spoke with him days ago
02:40That's all
02:50Yeah at the moment they can train we are waiting but as I said
02:54I the club is ready is there to support the player with
02:59All the things that we need to support him in the all the aspect
03:10To be honest, I don't know Andy
03:25If you say trust what do you mean
03:31That we trust Misha and we support Misha and trust means that we believe Misha we trust Misha and we support him
03:39It's just like than himself saying, you know, I'm very shocked
03:43seems generally taken about by this which in a way kind of makes it feel like people to
03:50Fight it
03:56Exactly it's like this
03:58What Misha said and what we said is that we trust Misha we support Misha and then we see
04:10A
04:15No, I don't think so
04:17How well equipped do you feel as a young coach yourself to help a player, particularly a young player like Misha through something like this, because this is really a test more of your kind of leadership and your mentoring skills than as a football coach. How ready do you feel to help a player in a vulnerable position?
04:38No, yeah, first of all these kind of things happen not only the young player up and also player with experience
04:44It's not just about Misha or about young players in general and then as I said, it's
04:51It's my duty since we start, you know that I try to have a relation with players quite close because I like in that way
05:00So even with Misha is exactly the same and I'm there to try to help Misha in anything he needs
05:07And because in this moment it's normal that he is going to need help from the club from me from the teammates and we are all there try to support
05:17Jacob
05:25We all believe that then we see
05:37Contact
05:42No, I don't think so I
05:44Don't think so. I think he's going to come back now
05:47The only thing is that we don't know when he's the only doubt we have in this moment, but for sure is going to come back
06:06It's not just it's not about Misha, it's but any player in the world that these kind of things happen they need support
06:15No matter if he's 20 or 30
06:17No matter if English or Italian or Ukrainian, no matter nothing when these kind of things happen, I need support
06:24You need support. They need support. We all need support because something happened. So it's not just about Misha
06:30It's about any player in the world that these kind of things happen
06:33They need support we all need support because something happened. So it's not about Misha. It's not about the age
06:38It's not about the country. It's about that when these kind of things happen. We all need support
06:44Bradley
06:54Yeah, we had all the same feeling in terms of
06:57The teammates they were all surprised
06:59But because Misha at the beginning was ill
07:03He didn't was good. Then this happened and we were they were all surprised and in the same time
07:11Sad because we don't like these kind of things
07:23Yeah, not only the senior player I think in this kind of moment
07:27It's important that all the teammates they are there to support Misha
07:47I said already that I like to go step by step for us
07:52The main target in conference was the group stage now the group stage is there
07:56We're gonna see the next game and then the target when we play the next game is to go to the next one
08:02And then we see where we arrive
08:20No, no for sure with us he was he was improving a lot especially in the last game
08:25He start to understand which position he has to stay at the beginning he was
08:30Because of his skills he was moving a lot. He was running a lot and with us
08:34I think in the last two three games that he played he was improving a lot. We were very happy with him
08:41And then in terms if he can where he can be in one year two years three years. I don't know but
08:47Do you see talent on the training ground with him that maybe we don't see on the pitch and in matches sometimes?
08:53No, no the the talent we see in the training pitch is exactly the same the talent that sometimes you can see during the game
09:00With Misha is exactly the same feeling so in the training session up and exactly the same that happened during the game
09:10You've had a few little issues you've had to deal with at Chelsea
09:13When you first came in it was Enzo Fernandes
09:15I think your first press conference you had to answer questions about him and that situation that kicked off
09:21There's been some senior players who you've let go and some who have stayed who aren't playing much
09:25You've come through, you've managed all those situations really well
09:29It's never become a distraction or a problem for the rest of the squad
09:32How have you managed to navigate all these little bumps in the road that come along?
09:38Just to try to convince the player that the only side that we can decide is the pitch side
09:45Because then everything up and around the pitch sometimes we cannot control that
09:50As you said Enzo one or the other kind of things but especially to convince them that if we need to solve things outside of the pitch
10:01It's my job to do it, not their job, they have to be focused on the game
10:07Day by day they have to work hard and try to win games as much as we can
10:13Then the rest is about the club, it's about me, how to try to solve this kind of problem that you just said now
10:20Ok we've got time for three more, we'll go Bobby, Kieran and them
10:24Hi Enzo, how pleased are you that Joshua Cheampong signed a new contract with the club?
10:30Very very happy, very happy
10:33With Joshua it's been quite clear, he was with us in pre-season
10:37I didn't know him personally but after two or three days that he was there with us he really impressed me
10:45And since the pre-season I was trying to understand a little bit the situation with him in terms of contract and these kind of things
10:51Now finally the club found an agreement with him and we are all happy because we are all convinced and sure that Josh can be a great player for this club
11:03Do you feel as if he's a player who might need to go out on loan in the future to get more experience
11:08Or do you think he's ready to play in competitions like the Premier League now?
11:12My personal opinion is that he has to stay close to us
11:17So as much as we can keep him here it's much better
11:21Hi Enzo, obviously we don't know how long Modric will be out
11:26But with the left winger, could that actually represent a big opportunity for Tyreek George?
11:31Or is it something where you might have to think closer to January?
11:34We have now three or four games before January
11:37We have Everton, Fulham and Ipswich, three games before January
11:42So we have still three games and then after these three games probably we're going to sit and we're going to decide if we need to do something
11:48For sure Tyreek is going to have to get minutes
11:52And we're going to try to help him to improve day by day
11:57Because now he's working with us every day, him and Josh
12:00And to allow them to get minutes with us in the Premier League
12:04And we'll finish with Ben
12:05Just a couple of quick ones from me Enzo
12:07Omari Kellyman, can you just update?
12:09The feeling is maybe he might play some under-23s action in mid-December
12:14And what are the plans for him in January?
12:16The main plan for him was to recover after the injury
12:20And now step by step, slowly slowly to get minutes
12:23And then in January we'll see which decision is better for him
12:27Can I just ask you a broader question on doping
12:30And how clean do you think football is today
12:33Compared to say when you walked into Juventus as a player
12:37Right off the back of the doping scandal
12:39I was waiting for this question
12:43I think football was clean in that time
12:49And it's clean in this time
12:51So I don't think there is a big difference between my time at Juventus
12:55And now, I think in that time it was clean, in this time it's clean
12:59But as I said before, these kind of things happen in the past
13:03They happen now and they are going to happen in the future
13:06Sorry, do one more question at the back please
13:08Hi, I'm Tony from RTE in Ireland
13:11And I'd like to ask you a question about the game
13:14Because you haven't said anything about the match we're here to discuss
13:18Obviously you've watched Shamrock Rovers
13:21What do you think are their strengths
13:23And how will you be approaching the game tomorrow?
13:25We're going to try to approach always in the same way
13:28Try to do our best and win the game
13:30I think today in football it's difficult to find teams that have no strength
13:35All the teams have something good
13:37And some things that you can try to work on that and win the game
13:42But I've watched four or five games
13:45And I think that they are a good team
13:48They try to defend as a block all together
13:51And they have some good players in general
13:53But I'm quite convinced that all the games are difficult
14:00It depends on us, the way we take that game
14:03And it can become a little bit more easy or more difficult
14:06But for sure it will be another game that we're going to try to win the game
14:10So far they are also unbeaten outside Chelsea
14:13Which of the games have you been more impressed with?
14:16They drew away to Rapid Vienna
14:18Drew with Atwell
14:19Beat the Bosnian champions last week
14:21I saw also the game against Sparta Prague I think
14:24That game also
14:25Rapid Vienna as you said
14:28But different games that they were trying to play face-to-face with the other team
14:39No, I think it's as I said before
14:41It's a general team
14:43The way they defend as a block
14:45The way they try to defend to help each other
14:47So it's more general
14:56Could be
14:57Could be
14:58We try to change players since we start
15:01And tomorrow probably it's one more option for that
15:08Surprise
15:10I said many times that we are ahead of my expectations
15:13In terms of the way we play
15:15And also for the results
15:17Thank you very much
15:18Thank you
15:27You