EXCLUSIVE | Marcel Desailly on Enzo Fernández: ‘He is overworked. That creates creative chaos in the Chelsea team.’
EXCLUSIVE | Marcel Desailly on Enzo Fernández: ‘He is overworked. That creates creative chaos in the Chelsea team. ’ Get French Football News sat down with former France, Marseille, AC Milan and Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly to talk to talk about the France squad and the current issues surrounding his former club sides.
In this final part of a four-part interview, he talked about the tough season being experienced by all his former clubs. Three of your former clubs – FC Nantes, Marseille and Chelsea – are all struggling this season. How do you assess their issues right now?
[Laughs] I’m suffering, right?! My four former clubs – well when I was a kid I wasn’t a Chelsea fan as they weren’t a well-known club then – but I was a Nantais who was a fan of Marseille and the club that I supported abroad was AC Milan, so to have played for all those clubs was magnificent, amazing! So yes, I’m suffering a little now.
But those three big clubs – and Nantes too actually – yes, they’re all kind of struggling for the same reason. There are quality players but they’re not sufficiently supported by experienced players. If you take Milan as an example, looking at Rafael Leão or Christian Pulisic, they’re not players with the necessary consistency to raise the club to the next level.
Yes there’s Luka Modrić, there’s Adrien Rabiot. But that’s not enough. They need to be better supported and pushed more.