Chelsea supervisor Enzo Maresca has predicted that the bold west London membership will “dominate English soccer” within the subsequent 5 to 10 years, however they don’t seem to be on this season’s title race.
The Italian coach has repeatedly quashed any suggestion that his facet can compete with Arsenal, Manchester Metropolis and Liverpool within the battle for Premier League glory this season. Cole Palmer echoed that sentiment even after the Blues moved stage on factors with the Gunners this weekend.
Regardless of his short-term pessimism – or realism – Maresca is assured that his younger and expensively assembled squad can compete for the largest prizes in the long run.
Talking forward of Chelsea’s journey to bottom-placed Southampton, the Blues boss revealed: “What I stated to the homeowners and the sporting administrators the primary time I met them, due to the age, and due to how good the squad is, for me Chelsea within the subsequent 5 to 10 years will likely be one of many groups, or the workforce, that’s going to dominate English soccer.
“That is what I stated this to the membership the primary time I met them. Irrespective of who would be the supervisor, for the following 5 or ten years, due to the age, the squad, you possibly can dominate English soccer, and I nonetheless assume precisely the identical.”
Chelsea spent greater than another workforce in world soccer over the summer time, sinking virtually £200m into 9 everlasting transfers. This hefty funding has not include any particular targets for Maresca from the membership’s hierarchy. “When it comes to a goal they did not ask me for any goal, solely to attempt to construct one thing essential for the following years,” the previous Leicester Metropolis boss claimed. “I believe we’re [heading] in the fitting path.
“When it comes to a private goal, I do know you battle to consider however I am not centered on [the] finish of season, subsequent season, as a result of it isn’t actual.”
