Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca says Manchester United sold a ‘special player’ in Jadon Sancho

Chelsea brag Enzo Maresca believes Manchester United sold a ‘special player’ successful Jadon Sancho.

Sancho has made an encouraging commencement to his Stamford Bridge vocation aft ending his dismal spell astatine Old Trafford past summer.

United spent much than £70m to bring Sancho to the nine successful 2021 and had precocious hopes for the England planetary pursuing his awesome stint with Borussia Dortmund.

But Sancho lone made 58 Premier League appearances for Manchester United, scoring 9 goals, earlier being offloaded to Chelsea connected transportation deadline day.

The 24-year-old, who fell retired with nether unit United brag Erik 10 Hag, joined Chelsea connected indebtedness until the extremity of the play but arsenic portion of the woody the westbound London nine agreed to motion him connected a imperishable transportation adjacent summertime for betwixt £20-25m.

Sancho is yet to unfastened his relationship for Chelsea but has 3 assists successful 4 Premier League appearances and Maresca insists helium is pleased with his performances.

Maresca, who left his occupation with Leicester City to instrumentality implicit astatine Stamford Bridge successful July, believes Chelsea person signed a ‘special player’ and urged Sancho to beryllium arsenic overmuch successful the coming months.

‘Jadon is doing well,’ Maresca said astatine a property league connected Friday. ‘He needs to proceed successful the aforesaid way; enactment hard, each day.

‘As I’ve said before, for definite helium is going to assistance us. We truly judge that helium is simply a peculiar player.

‘But the lone mode for him to corroborate that is by moving hard each time and ne'er beryllium blessed and ever beryllium ambitious. He needs to privation much and much and more.’

Sancho has contributed to Chelsea’s awesome commencement to the season, with the Blues taking 14 points from 7 games to beryllium 4th successful the Premier League table.

Chelsea were wide expected to conflict successful Maresca’s archetypal play astatine the nine but the Blues person mislaid conscionable 1 crippled – their opening-day clash against defending champions Manchester City.

Asked to complaint his team’s commencement to the 2024-25 campaign, Maresca said: ‘I’m precise blessed due to the fact that what I expected successful presumption of players, level and style, I tin spot intelligibly that is there.

‘It doesn’t substance successful this infinitesimal who is going to play, you tin spot intelligibly however we privation to play.’

Chelsea’s encouraging signifier and dynamic benignant of play volition beryllium enactment to the trial connected Sunday erstwhile they question to Anfield to look aboriginal Premier League leaders Liverpool.

On the menace of Liverpool, Maresca said: ‘They are doing fantastic. Very bully players, precise bully manager, precise bully club.

‘It’s already galore years Liverpool are there, truthful they are continuing to bash that and that is important for them.’

The Italian added: ‘I deliberation it is simply a peculiar crippled for each of the clubs. Liverpool is simply a bully environment, fantastic stadium.

‘We are excited to play this benignant of game. All the games we person played until present person not been easy. We are going to bash our best.

‘I don’t deliberation Sunday’s crippled defines wherever we are. In this moment, we person to beryllium focused connected things we request to improve.

‘We person Liverpool and past 2 oregon 3 much games. Nottingham wasn’t an casual game, oregon Brighton, West Ham distant oregon Bournemouth away.

‘Premier League is the champion league successful the satellite and the toughest league successful the world.’

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