Just in: Another Chelsea player ready to leave club for regular game time
According to latest reports, Chelsea defender Emerson Palmieri has expressed his desire to leave the club in search of more regular game time.
The Italian international has fallen in the pecking order in the Thomas Tuchel regime and is likely to get very little space in Tuchel’s plans.
The Blues already has Ben Chilwell and Marcos Alonso as two prominent left-backs and Emerson’s chances of bypassing these two seems to be not possible as it stands.
The 27-year-old made it clear he wants to play on a regular basis and might have to leave Stamford Bridge to play week in week out.
“I know it’s not easy, but I’m hungry to play.
“I want to play, I know I can be out on the pitch, I’ve proved that.
“So I’m going to do everything I can to be on the pitch. Of course, I still have two more years on my contract with Chelsea, which is a great club.
“I’ve already proved that I can play here, but at the same time I want to be on the pitch. I want to play, I want to feel important, like I already did.
“I want to have the same feeling I felt when I scored against Atlético Madrid, to have the same feeling when I won the Champions League.”
“And I will really choose the best option.” he further added.
“If it’s to stay at Chelsea, if it happens to Napoli or another team.
“I still have another 25 days practically to think about it, to be able to choose the best, the best place. Where they really want me, want me happy.
“Last season I didn’t have the opportunity to maybe choose, to maybe have another option.
“Today, I have others, I can choose, I have time to choose, so for sure next season will be the way I choose, not how things arrive and I have to accept them.
“I will do everything to choose the best option, which is the one of being on the pitch as many times as possible.”