Chelsea top-scorer considering 2025 exit amid frustrations under Enzo Maresca

Christopher Nkunku has scored much goals than immoderate different Chelsea subordinate this season, but is unhappy with his deficiency of crippled clip and is not ruling retired a departure adjacent year.

The 27-year-old has scored 10 goals successful 17 appearances truthful acold this campaign, though his Premier League minutes person been precise constricted and astir of these goals person travel successful the Europa Conference League.

The France planetary has started conscionable 1 Premier League crippled and scored 1 extremity successful the apical formation this season, with 3 much strikes successful the Carabao Cup and six of his goals coming successful the Conference League.

Nkunku’s 1 league commencement came connected the opening time of the play successful decision to Manchester City and helium has had to marque bash with 9 substitute appearances since then.

Understandably helium is not thrilled astir this, with The Athletic reporting that a root adjacent to the subordinate confirms that helium is unhappy with the situation.

It is not drastic unhappiness and the guardant has not complained to the Chelsea hierarchy oregon made a transportation request, but if the concern doesn’t alteration past things could escalate.

If the Frenchman continues to lone beryllium a fringe subordinate successful the Premier League past helium could propulsion for an exit successful the summertime transportation model adjacent year.

Competition for places successful Chelsea’s beforehand enactment is intense, with Nicolas Jackson the preferred enactment to pb the enactment and past a drawstring of players battling it retired to play down him.

The 3 successful Maresca’s bully books astatine the infinitesimal look to beryllium Cole Palmer, Pedro Neto and Noni Madueke, but Jadon Sancho, Joao Felix, Mykhailo Mudryk and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall are besides successful the squad and hoping to play much regularly.

Nkunku is successful his 2nd play with Chelsea though astatine the commencement of the run helium said helium is treating it arsenic his archetypal aft wounded constricted him to conscionable 11 Premier League appearances successful his debut year.

‘For me, this is my archetypal play successful Chelsea FC, for sure. To beryllium honest, I don’t person the feeling I had a archetypal play here. It was precise difficult,’ helium said implicit the summer.

‘When a subordinate misses 1 season, helium is precise hungry. I americium precise hungry. My extremity this play is to play and to beryllium confident. I cognize if I americium blessed and assured successful my body, I tin amusement what I americium capable to do.’

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