Enzo Fernandez has slammed Chelsea’s hierarchy for allowing Enzo Maresca to depart Stamford Bridge and claims the Italian’s departure ‘hurt us lots’.
Chelsea parted ways with Maresca on Latest 12 months’s Day, lower than six months after he guided the team to victory on the Club World Cup in July.
In Maresca’s final weeks in charge, Chelsea had registered only one win in seven Premier League games and were 15 points behind leaders Arsenal.
That gap between Arsenal has now increased to 22 points under Liam Rosenior, while this month, Chelsea were hammered 8-2 on aggregate by Paris Saint-Germain of their Champions League last-16 tie.
Maresca had clashed with Chelsea’s board over their failure to recruit a brand new central defender last summer following Levi Colwill’s ACL injury, while he accused senior figures behind the scenes of failing to support him after a 2-0 win against Everton in December.
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Speaking after Chelsea’s 3-0 defeat to home to PSG within the Champions League on Tuesday night, Fernandez was asked in an interview Mexican broadcaster TUDN in regards to the club’s decision to approve Maresca’s departure earlier this season.
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‘I don’t understand it either,’ Fernandez said.
‘Sometimes there are things that we as players don’t understand, how and in what way they struggle to administer things.
‘Obviously, it was a departure that hurt us lots because we had an identity. He gave us an order, regardless that, as is the best way of football, sometimes it’s good and bad.
‘But he all the time had a really clear identity when it got here to training and playing, and clearly his departure hurt us lots, especially in the midst of the season, it cuts the whole lot short.’
In a separate interview ESPN Argentina, Fernandez also raised doubt over his long-term future at Chelsea.
Asked if he could guarantee that he might be a Chelsea player next season, Fernandez told ESPN Argentina: ‘I don’t know, I don’t know.
‘There are eight games left and the FA Cup. There’s the World Cup after which we’ll see.’
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