Chelsea’s head coach, Enzo Maresca, says he is not just in the club and instead focuses on the challenge for titles in the future.
The Italian, who had appointed a five -year contract for the replacement of Mauricio Pochettino last summer, started the season excellently and led Chelsea to the top two of the Premier League on one phase.
This promising opening of the campaign inevitably led to a challenge for the Premier League title, but Maresca himself played down these opportunities pretty quickly and explained that it took more time to implement his ideas and bed in a number of new commitments.
The form of Chelsea has been alarming since a defeat at Boxing Day against Neighborhood rival in Fulham in the Stamford Bridge and culminated in all competitions in just three wins from the club’s last 11 games.
In the past few weeks, followers have become shrunk and supported rumors about possible dismissal, and the noise publicly prompted the co -owner Jonathan Goldstein that Maresca maintains full support for the board at the beginning of the week.
Maresca was examined in his last press conference before the trip to Aston Villa for Goldstein’s comments, and the former head of Leicester City was firmly convinced that he would not only want to hold his job until the end of the season.
“From the first day I was clear: I’m not here to survive, I’m here to win games and fight titles,” said Maresca. “I often said that. The problem is when you win games, you look modest and if you lose games, it looks like you are lacking in ambition.
“Since the first day when I came to this club, it was my intention of winning games, winning titles and bringing this club to where they earn. I am ambitious, the club is ambitious. We have the same manager , like sports directors, the same owner as two months ago when we were second in the league.
“The only thing that has changed is that we deal with many injuries, and this affects the team’s level a little.”
Maresca referenced Goldstein’s support and added: “It is nice to hear) and I appreciate the relationship with the club since our beginning. Results like now.
In the past few weeks, Maresca’s thing has not been helped by a violation of the leading striker Nicolas Jackson, who has now been connected to the sidelines by Noni Madueke. Their absence increases the pressure on Cole Palmer to deliver the goals for Chelsea – in his last four Premier League trips without a goal with 14 goals in the first 21 games of the season.