Duo training separately after missing out on Chelsea exits
Maresca: ‘My father worked 2am to 10am … this is sad’
Enzo Maresca has told his exiled Chelsea players, Raheem Sterling and Axel Disasi, that they should try working through the night as a fisherman – like his father – if they want to understand real hardship.
Sterling and Disasi have been cast into a two-man bomb squad by the club after failing to secure transfers over the summer. They have been told they cannot use the first-team facilities, which has meant training on a different pitch, changing in a different dressing room and eating in a different area.
Sterling revealed in an Instagram post at the start of the week that he was training at 8pm, which is plainly not ideal for a father of four young children and led to an intervention from the Professional Footballers’ Association. The organisation has worked with Chelsea to try to arrange a more amenable schedule for Sterling and Disasi, which has featured lunchtime sessions with the under-21s.
