Currently spending his vacations in Brazil, Chelsea left-back Emerson Palmieri attended ESPN’s show Futebol no Mundo on Monday.
The player has talked a lot about the Blues’ season under Sarri, and the journalists kept trying to get something out of him about the club’s plans for the summer.
Palmieri was directly asked who will be Chelsea’s manager next season, with journalists naming Frank Lampard as a strong candidate. But he claims not to know anything.
“It’s a strong name. I’m here now, I’m on vacation, so…,” Emerson Palmieri told ESPN Brasil.
“No. On the Whatsapp’s group, the last move there was Hazard’s farewell. He said goodbye to the boys and such, since then, we don’t know anything else. It’s weird. He sent a ‘thank you, I love you guys’, and then it showed ‘Eden Hazard left the group’. I said damn, he really left.”
Palmieri was also asked about a move to Juventus, since the Italian press has been claiming that Maurizio Sarri would want to take him to the Old Lady. However, the Brazilian claims he “doesn’t know anything” about the interest, and “nothing came” for him so far. He also insists he’s pretty happy at Chelsea.
