Enzo Maresca will likely not be too pleased with the business Chelsea completed during the previous summer transfer window.
The new manager picked up a side who finished last season strongly, and the aim of the summer was to plug the gaps to build a squad capable of competing on four fronts this season.
Some players signed are not even with the club anymore. Renato Veiga and Joao Felix didn’t even get through a season with the club before requesting to move due to not getting the minutes they desired at Stamford Bridge.
Maresca is seen as ‘untouchable’ at Chelsea at the moment, and is expected to be in charge when the new season comes around.
The goal should therefore be signing players who suit his style of play, with one of the positions under scrutiny being the goalkeeper role.
Chelsea didn’t sign Mads Hermansen because they think he is too small
Maresca wants a new goalkeeper for next season after clearly not being too impressed by Robert Sanchez and Filip Jorgensen throughout this campaign.
One of the names who was linked with a move last summer was Mads Hermansen, who has worked with Maresca during his one season in charge of Leicester City.
Hermansen saved a penalty from Cole Palmer this season, the first one the England international has missed in his senior career.
According to Matt Law though, the higher ups at the club were convinced Hermansen was too small to do the job in goal at Stamford Bridge.
He said to ‘London is Blue’: “The Leiecester goalkeeper [Hermansen], I’m told that they think he’s too small. That he’s not good enough in the air.”
Enzo Maresca really wanted Mads Hermansen
Given the fact he had worked closely with the goalkeeper, Maresca will have had a better knowledge than most on just how good the shot stopper is.
It was claimed by former player Matt Piper that Maresca really wanted Hermansen when he joined the club, with the Blues instead signing Jorgensen.
The Dane’s reputation has not improved this season, and there is currently no clarity over who will be starting in goal for the Blues next season.
Djordje Petrovic is surely back in the conversation for minutes next season after his excellent loan spell at Strasbourg so far, while Mike Penders will also be under review despite still being a teenager.
