‘I’m not at my level,’ claims £54m Chelsea star as he says ‘no one can sleep’ over competition under Enzo Maresca
CHELSEA stars are losing sleep over the competition in Enzo Maresca squad.
The new Blues boss spent £220million after taking over in the summer following Mauricio Pochettino’s exit.
Winger Pedro Neto was a £54million addition from Wolves and has been competing to get a regular spot out wide.
Neto – who took the No7 jersey from Arsenal loanee Raheem Sterling – scored his first Chelsea goal in the 5-0 League Cup drubbing of Barrow.
And he admitted Maresca’s squeezed squad are only just getting used to the rotating line ups.
He said: “When you arrive at a big club, it’s a new adaptation. Maybe in Wolverhampton, I was going to play maybe 90 per cent of the games.
“Here, I have to work even more or maybe I’ll not play because the coach will rotate the players.
“It makes you play even better because you know that you have to work.
“With the amount of quality that we have here, no one can sleep. As the coach has said: ‘Everyone will not play every game’.
“We have to work hard and make for ourselves and continue to to do it every weekend, every training session, every game.
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“It’s the mentality that I hope can take us to the top.”
Neto, 24, has made seven appearances so far this season operating on both the left and right in competition with Noni Madueke, 22.
But Neto admitted: “At the moment, I’m not at my level, but I’m getting there. I know that I will arrive at my top form and I will enjoy it.
“I continue to work. I continue to work on my confidence, on my football, on the adaptation, and I hope to be [at full fitness] as soon as as I can.”