ENZO Maresca has told Chelsea outcasts Raheem Sterling and Axel Disasi: Try being a fisherman like my dad.
chief Maheta Molango about the way they were isolating Sterling and Disasi, the only remaining members of the “bomb squad” of unwanted players.
Axel Disasi recently posted a picture of what the changing room of the ‘bomb squad’ looked like
Sterling, who is on £325,000-a-week, was left to train alone at 8pm
Sterling reportedly turned down the chance to move abroad or out of London in the summer
But when Maresca was asked about the potential impact on their mental , the Blues boss said: “My father is 75 years old and for 50 years he has been a fisherman, working from 2 o’clock in the morning until 10 o’clock in the morning.
“This is hard in life, not a player, the way they work.”
Maresca’s dad Pasquale went missing in Istanbul during the celebrations of City’s triumph when his son was assistant to Pep Guardiola.
Pasquale turned up safe and well but Sterling and Disasi have totally disappeared from ‘s first-team plans.
Maresca has some sympathy with them from his own experiences of being out as a player.
But he insists the situation happens all the time in global when players fall out of favour and do not move on to new clubs.
Maresca said: “I’ve been in Raheem’s situation and Axel’s situation as a player and for sure I know that it’s not the best feeling for a player because if you are a player that means that you want to train and play a game.
“For a different reason the situation is the situation that is in this moment and I know that the club is giving them the opportunity to work in the right way and this is the only thing I can say.
Maresca says his dad has worked as a fisherman for almost all his life and that is the reality of the world
“it’s not just Chelsea, it’s any club in the world, I can promise you, Italy, Spain, England, France, USA, Brazil, any club in the world, when for any reason the player and the club doesn’t find any solution and you give the player all the tools to do training sessions and to do everything.
“But if you are not involved in the squad you are not involved in the squad.”
Sterling, Disasi and other members of the bomb squad spent the changing,
Sterling laid bare the reality of his situation by posting a picture from Chelsea’s Cobham training ground.
Chelsea have strongly rejected suggestions that their treatment of the players could consititute “abusive conduct” under rules.
Article 14 of the Fifa Regulatons on the Status and Transfer of Players says: “Any abusive conduct of a party aiming at forcing the counterparty to terminate or change the terms of the contract shall entitle the counterparty (a player or a club) to terminate the contract with just cause.”
But neither Sterling nor Disasi is likely to bring a case before Fifa.
Disasi has nearly six years left on his £80,000–per-week-contract, which means he would have to write off more than £20m to leave Chelsea unliaterally.
And Sterling has almost two years to go of his £325,000-per-week deal, which is worth around £30m.
Which is a lot more than Pasquale Maresca has earned for fishing in the Med for half a century.
Disasi saw a deadline day transfer collapse at the last minute
Maresca revealed he knows what those left in the bome squad are going through 
