New signing Joao Felix is ‘player that will help us’ says Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca
Joao Felix could make his second Chelsea debut against Wolves on Sunday 25 August as head coach Enzo Maresca tipped the returning forward to be a standout addition amongst a glut of new faces at Stamford Bridge.Felix completed his return to the club on Wednesday, signing a seven-year contract – 15 months after he last played for the Blues on loan – with the Portugal forward’s arrival from Atletico Madrid helping facilitate Conor Gallagher’s move in the opposite direction.He was unable to feature for Chelsea against Servette in the Europa Conference League playoff 24 hours later, but could be in line to face Wolves in the Premier League.
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00:00Is there a chance Sergio Felix could play on Sunday?
00:04If he is available and for sure he can get chances to play.
00:09Do you think he's ready to go straight in?
00:12In terms of knowing the way we want to play, probably not yet.
00:17In terms of physicality, I think he's ready because he was already playing games there.
00:22So it's just to understand if he needs more time to understand the way we want to play.
00:29But overall, I think he can play.
00:31I think he's mature enough to understand what he has to do.
00:37And also, hopefully, he'll learn from his mistakes in the past and he can do better.
00:43But overall, I think, as I said already, he's a player that is going to help us.
00:47I just communicate the players that I like and the players that I don't like.
00:52And because there are still one week, ten days for the Wimbledon transfer,
00:57hopefully we can find a solution for all of them.
00:59Because at the end, when you find a solution, everyone is happy.
01:03When you don't find a solution, probably you can create some problem.
01:06But at the moment, with the squad that we have, as I said the other day,
01:10I don't remember, some of you, at the end, I'm working with 22, 23, 21 players.
01:16Not with the 42 or 43 players.
01:18Because it's impossible for any manager in the world to make a session with 45 players.
01:23It's impossible. You cannot do that.