Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca has mentioned the membership are focusing on additional incomings earlier than the tip of the switch window regardless of finishing their tenth summer time signing earlier this week.
Pedro Neto joined Chelsea in a £54 million ($69.6m) deal from Wolves on Monday, following Tosin Adarabioyo, Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, Filip Jörgensen, Omari Kellyman, Aaron Anselmino, Caleb Wiley, Renato Veiga and Marc Guiu into west London whereas Estêvão Willian will be a part of the membership in 2025.
That exercise has left Chelsea with a bloated squad of 43 gamers as they appear to maneuver on a number of undesirable members together with Conor Gallagher, whose proposed £34 million transfer to Atlético Madrid is on maintain whereas the LaLiga membership elevate funds to finish the deal.
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Chelsea are in talks with Atlético over the doable acquisition of João Félix whereas Napoli are open to incorporating Victor Osimhen in a player-plus money swap deal for Romelu Lukaku.
Requested in regards to the hyperlinks to Félix and Osimhen, Maresca mentioned on Friday: “The one factor I can say is I at all times must say the identical. They aren’t our gamers so it isn’t appropriate, I feel, to speak a couple of Napoli participant or — who’s the opposite one? — an Atlético Madrid participant.
“On this second, the membership is aware of precisely what I feel when it comes to what we want in case we do one thing and hopefully earlier than we end the switch window, we will herald some gamers.”
Gallagher and Trevor Chalobah are amongst a lot of gamers coaching away from the first-team squad forward of Chelsea’s season-opener towards champions Manchester Metropolis on Sunday.
Gallagher won’t be obtainable towards Metropolis, whereas Ben Chilwell, Armando Broja and Raheem Sterling are among the many gamers who may depart earlier than the window closes.
“We now have been 20 days in America with 28, 29 gamers so it has been fairly good when it comes to managing the squad,” Maresca mentioned. “Now we’ve got the blokes who will not be concerned in our squad, they’re coaching aside. In the meanwhile, it isn’t tough, additionally as a result of if I begin to suppose I’ve 43 gamers, most likely it isn’t a very good factor.
“I simply completed the session now and I’m already interested by tomorrow’s session. It’s the solely factor I love to do, I like to manage, Should you begin interested by 43 gamers, ‘supervisor [has] no time,’ I feel it isn’t price it.
“The [sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart] are there looking for options for these sorts of gamers. I’m not the man accountable for discovering answer for these gamers in any other case they must pay me double.”
Maresca left Leicester Metropolis after profitable the Championship title final season to succeed Mauricio Pochettino at Stamford Bridge and revealed that he has just lately spoken with two fellow Italians in Claudio Ranieri and Carlo Ancelotti, each of whom managed Chelsea beforehand.
“I spoke with Claudio Ranieri and the rationale why was additionally as a result of I spoke with him earlier than I began the season with Leicester and we gained,” Maresca mentioned.
“So after I signed to Chelsea I referred to as him instantly simply to see if it might be the identical! Then I spoke with Carlo Ancelotti once we performed towards Madrid [in preseason] for some time. Each of them had been speaking in regards to the membership [as] incredible, about their expertise right here, incredible.”
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