Enzo Maresca plans to sell FOUR Chelsea stars for €170m

Carlo Garganese

5 Jun 2024 12:30 BST
3 min read

Enzo Maresca has only been Chelsea manager for a few days but is already wielding the axe.

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According to Teamtalk, Maresca has put four Chelsea stars up for sale and is hoping to raise €170 million from their transfers.

The four players in question are defenders Benoit Badiashile, Marc Cucurella and Trevoh Chalobah, as well as goalkeeper Robert Sanchez.

Raising this kind of money from this quartet appears somewhat unlikely given their struggles in a Chelsea shirt.

Badiashile has failed to live up to expectation since his move from Monaco in January 2023, while Cucurella has fallen well short after he became the most expensive left back in the world when arriving from Brighton in 2022.

© IMAGO - Benoit Badiashile struggled at Chelsea

Chalobah has been available for transfer for a year now, but it is expected that this is the summer where he will make the move away from his boyhood club.

And finally, contrary to reports in other outlets that claimed that Maresca wanted to keey Sanchez, Teamtalk claims he wants to offload him after he flopped last season.

Maresca will then use the money raised from these sales to rebuild a team who endured another dismal season last term under Mauricio Pochettino.

Maresca becomes Chelsea manager

On Monday, Chelsea announced the appointment of Maresca as their new head coach on a five-year contract.

The Italian succeeds Pochettino at Stamford Bridge for the 2024/25 season and beyond.

The Argentine left Chelsea by mutual consent following the conclusion of the 2023-24 campaign, with the Blues managing to sneak into the Conference League with a late-season surge up the table.

Maresca led Leicester City to the Championship title last season, playing some of the most impressive football in England in the early parts of the campaign.

There has been some opposition to Maresca’s appointment from fans, with Leicester losing seven of their final 14 games of the season and just about limping over the line.

Chelsea reportedly paid €10 million in compensation to buy the 44-year-old Italian out of his Leicester contract, illustrating how highly they rate him. Maresca quickly emerged as one of the top candidates for the job and personal terms did not prove an issue.

Maresca beat Kieran McKenna, Roberto de Zerbi and Thomas Frank to the post at Chelsea.