{"id":269824,"date":"2025-11-18T14:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269824\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:41:18","slug":"how-enzo-maresca-initially-felt-about-axel-disasi-return-at-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269824\/","title":{"rendered":"How Enzo Maresca initially felt about Axel Disasi return at Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chelsea defender Axel Disasi is set to become an option for Enzo Maresca after the international break.<\/p>\n

After being frozen out, Disasi has now returned to first-team training<\/a> at Cobham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, many will still be expecting the centre-back to leave Chelsea<\/a> in January, with a couple of clubs thought to be interested in him.<\/p>\n

Last month, it was reported that Galatasaray want to negotiate a deal for Disasi<\/a> as they look to strengthen their backline.<\/p>\n

\"EnzoPhoto by Francesco Scaccianoce \u2013 UEFA\/UEFA via Getty ImagesEnzo Maresca wasn\u2019t desperate for Axel Disasi to return to first team<\/p>\n

If Disasi<\/a> does depart Chelsea in the January transfer window, Maresca<\/a> is unlikely to be too fussed.<\/p>\n

Journalist Simon Phillips has claimed on Si Phillips Talks Chelsea<\/a> that the Italian never pushed for Disasi\u2019s return to the first team.<\/p>\n

Clearly, then, Maresca was not desperate to have the 27-year-old back. However, his treatment at Chelsea has definitely not been fair.<\/p>\n

Even during his exile, Disasi has remained professional<\/a> and been a positive influence on the club\u2019s youngsters.<\/p>\n

While a start seems very unlikely, he will now be hoping to make the bench for Chelsea\u2019s upcoming Premier League<\/a> match against Burnley.<\/p>\n

\"ChelseaPhoto by Chris Lee \u2013 Chelsea FC\/Chelsea FC via Getty ImagesAxel Disasi\u2019s stats under Enzo Maresca<\/p>\n

Disasi was not completely overlooked by Maresca in the Chelsea manager\u2019s<\/a> first season at Stamford Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before his loan move to Aston Villa earlier this year, the Frenchman made 17 appearances under Maresca and even got the opportunity to captain Chelsea in the Conference League<\/a> on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n

Axel Disasi\u2019s stats under Enzo MarescaAppearancesGoalsAssistsPremier League610Conference League612Conference League qualifiers200FA Cup100Carabao Cup200Total1722Via Transfermarkt<\/a><\/p>\n

However, he is going to find it hard to add to that, with Trevoh Chalobah, Wesley Fofana, Josh Acheampong, Benoit Badiashile and Tosin Adarabioyo all above him in the centre-back pecking order right now.<\/p>\n

This season, Jorrel Hato has also played in central defence, so you would also expect the Dutch youngster to be picked before Disasi.<\/p>\n

With Chelsea still in the Carabao Cup<\/a>, though, perhaps the France international could get some minutes in that competition. They take on Cardiff City in the quarter-finals next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea defender Axel Disasi is set to become an option for Enzo Maresca after the international break. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7388,294,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-269824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-axel-disasi","tag-enzo-maresca","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}