"He is a four-time Premier League champion who was England's star player at Euro 2020 and could once be relied upon to score at least 10 goals a season. Today his role has been reduced to occupying a space in Chelsea's so-called bomb squad, training away from the first team, on different pitches, at different times and with limited access to facilities."
"Maresca's arrival at the start of last season marked the beginning of the end for the 38.7m signing from Monaco. It didn't take the Italian manager long to make up his mind; 17 appearances in all competitions, just six of them in the Premier League, were enough for him to decide the defender was surplus to requirements. Poor one-on-one defending and a lack of composure on the ball sent Disasi to the back of the pecking order, behind the six other centre-backs in the squad."
Raheem Sterling joined Chelsea for £50m from Manchester City as the club's first major signing under new ownership and is now marginalized amid more than £1.4bn of subsequent recruitment. Sterling is a four-time Premier League champion and Euro 2020 standout who formerly scored 10+ goals per season; he now trains apart from the first team with limited facilities and faces slim chances of reinstatement while Enzo Maresca leads the club, despite a five-year, £325,000-per-week contract. Axel Disasi, a £38.7m signing who featured in the World Cup final for France, fell down the pecking order after defensive errors and a notable mistake at Ipswich, making only 17 appearances before being excluded from matchday selections.
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