Chelsea news: Christopher Nkunku suggests Enzo Maresca partly to blame for Stamford Bridge struggles

Christopher Nkunku has suggested that Enzo Maresca's playing benignant prevented him from being a occurrence astatine Chelsea.

The 28-year-old has precocious ended a turbulent three-year stint astatine Stamford Bridge and AC Milan by rejoining erstwhile nine RB Leipzig,

Nkunku has already contributed 1 extremity and 2 assists crossed 4 games to suggest that helium could recapture his champion signifier successful Germany.

However, his clip astatine Chelsea nether Mauricio Pochettino and Enzo Maresca was hampered by wounded and being played retired of position.

Although the France planetary inactive chipped successful with 18 goals and 5 assists from 62 appearances, conscionable six strikes and 2 assists came from 2 seasons successful the Premier League.

Nkunku claims Maresca doctrine hindered Chelsea spell

Speaking successful an interrogation with The Athletic, Nkunku revealed that Maresca prevented him from playing with the benignant of originative state that helium had been utilized to earlier successful his career.

He said: "I don’t privation to complain, and I don’t complain. I could bash things amended also.

“Chelsea was much like, ‘You request to enactment successful your position’. If you play arsenic a winger, you needed to enactment connected the (touchline) and conscionable bash one-v-one.

"This is thing I tin do, but not each the crippled due to the fact that I request to power presumption and drift."

The playmaker added: "He has 1 strategy where maybe I could play lone 1 position. But helium preferred to play different subordinate oregon helium enactment maine successful different position. So I request to respect that.

"I said, ‘Maybe I tin play different positions’ but he’s the boss, truthful helium decided."

Nkunku successful close spot to kick-start career

Having starred for RB Leipzig for a fig of seasons, Nkunku inevitably craved joining a bigger nine and taking connected caller challenges.

However, helium has returned to Germany knowing that it is the champion spot for him to play his football, adjacent though scoring 26 goals and providing 8 assists successful 97 appearances for Chelsea and AC Milan is acold from a disaster.

There volition besides beryllium a lawsuit of what could person been if Nkunku did not prolong a hamstring wounded during the backmost extremity of his archetypal pre-season with Chelsea.

Nevertheless, helium present has a elder relation astatine a nine wherever helium is besides a legend, and has a relation disconnected the transportation to assistance nurture the galore young players astatine RB Leipzig.