Chelsea accused of making £30m transfer ‘mistake’
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Enzo Maresca has been accused of making a £30m transfer ‘mistake’ during his first transfer window in charge of Chelsea. Maresca left his job at Championship winners Leicester City to take over at Stamford Bridge last summer following Mauricio Pochettino’s departure.
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The Italian welcomed a number of new signings to the club, including the likes of Jadon Sancho, Pedro Neto and Joao Felix. Some of Chelsea’s summer signings are thriving but others, like Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, have struggled for minutes and been urged to leave the club after just six months.
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Chelsea signed the 26-year-old from Maresca’s former club Leicester for £30m but he has barely featured for the Blues since putting pen to paper on a six-year deal. Dewsbury-Hall starred in Leicester’s title-winning team – scoring 12 goals and providing a further 12 assists last season to be named the club’s player of the season and players’ player of the season.
The Leicester academy graduate hoped to continue to impress in west London but has been restricted to just one Premier League start. Given his lack of minutes, Dewsbury-Hall has been linked with a move away from Chelsea during the January transfer window and William Gallas insists it was a mistake to sign him in the first place.
‘Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall made a rare start against Wolves and got an assist, but you’d have to say that signing him was a mistake for Chelsea,’ the ex-Blues defender told Spin Genie. ‘He cost £30m and has mostly been sitting on the bench or out of the squad completely, you can’t really see him getting a run of starts in the Premier League at the moment.
