Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has firmly dismissed suggestions that the club is “a mess” despite the fact that they currently have more than 40 first-team players on their roster.
In addressing the situation on Wednesday, Maresca also responded to Raheem Sterling’s recent comments about being uncertain over his future at the club.
Chelsea’s summer transfer window has been extremely busy, with Conor Gallagher completing a £34 million ($44.4 million) move to Atlético Madrid, while João Félix became the club’s 11th signing of the window, heading in the opposite direction.
Maresca acknowledged that a considerable number of players have been training separately from the main squad after being deemed surplus to requirements.
This group included several high-profile names, such as Gallagher before his transfer, Ben Chilwell, Trevoh Chalobah, and Raheem Sterling.
Today’s session is with 20 players, yesterday’s session was with 21. So they other 15 or 20, they are training apart. In the USA [during preseason] we had 26 or 27 players so [are there] Chelsea players, 42, 43, yes for sure.
But they are not working with me every day. I don’t see them. So it is not a mess like it looks from outside, absolutely not.”