Chelsea left-back Emerson Palmieri has revealed his desire to play in Serie A again as he looks to boost his chances of making the Italy national squad for Euro 2020.
The defender joined the London club from Roma in 2018 but has never nailed down a regular starting spot at Stamford Bridge and is yet to feature in the Premier League this season.
Frank Lampard has spent over £200m on reinforcements to the Blues squad this summer, including £50m on Ben Chilwell from Leicester City who has gone ahead of Emerson in the pecking order.
But despite the 26-year-old's lack of playing time at club level, he was still called up to the national side by manager Roberto Mancini and started in Italy's 4-0 win over Estonia on Wednesday.
Emerson is hopeful of a place in summer's rearranged European Championships, but revealed Mancini told him he needs to be playing regularly for his club to keep his place, whether that be at Chelsea or elsewhere.
'Here at the national team I play, I have fun and I'm fine', Emerson told CalcioMercato.
'The coach told me that the best solution for me is to play, at Chelsea or in another team, let's wait for the next two months and see what will happen.
'Unfortunately I'm not playing at Chelsea, but I'm calm, I think things can improve in London or in another place.
'There was some interest in me but not concrete things. I'd like to return to play in Italy but I can't say if it will happen in January or in five years.'
Gunners4ever❤
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so why is he in the italy squad?
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nodbeikmty
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Emerson is bad.
so why is he in the italy squad?
AnkitDhakal
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His actual desire is to play football again
LukaTha-Goodman
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Emerson is correct, that he and Jorginho must return to Italy, to boost their confidence and chances of playing in their National Team. As it is, both cannot easily get the necessary game time at Chelsea, where Ben Chilwell is just so wonderful in that Left Back position and with Declan Rice, being such an excellent middle field maestro, coming into Chelsea,in January, 2021. Surely, both Italian players will be on the bench, most of the time, hence a move back to Italy would be beneficial to all parties, concerned. It's only fair that the Italian Teams pay Chelsea good prices for these 2 good players, so that Chelsea can get both Rice and Upamecano as well as Grealish.
Being honest Rice is no where near Jorginho. We don't need him at all. We have players at our disposal who can play Dm. The likes of Ampandu, James, Gilmour, Zouma and Tomiri will excel well. Don't go with the flow you must analyze the player. All English footballer are praised and overhyped by their media and pundits. You must also remember that we have Kante and Kovacic. Who is going to be benched by a mid-table player who can't perform well in his team? Chelsea must refrain from buying Rice, you have Bakayoko on loan.
Gunners4ever❤
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Emerson is bad.
Dizcdenz
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Emerson is correct, that he and Jorginho must return to Italy, to boost their confidence and chances of playing in their National Team. As it is, both cannot easily get the necessary game time at Chelsea, where Ben Chilwell is just so wonderful in that Left Back position and with Declan Rice, being such an excellent middle field maestro, coming into Chelsea,in January, 2021. Surely, both Italian players will be on the bench, most of the time, hence a move back to Italy would be beneficial to all parties, concerned. It's only fair that the Italian Teams pay Chelsea good prices for these 2 good players, so that Chelsea can get both Rice and Upamecano as well as Grealish.
mike63
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Emerson should rather work to improve his work rate,especially in urgency
Gonga_Husein
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Dear AF, can you please start writing Euro 2021 instead of Euro 2020?