“I felt a bit stupid” – Chelsea’s £30m man says this change will revolutionise the club | OneFootball

Chelsea’s summer signing Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has given an interesting interview with the BBC’s Nizaar Kinsella today where he couldn’t have been more positive about the potential impact of new coach Enzo Maresca, who was his manager last year at Leicester.

“The manager was a big catalyst in wanting me to come,” Dewsbury-Hall explained.

“I knew from Leicester, a club that went down and had a lot of problems, how he managed to galvanise that, if everyone manages to buy into the system.

“I genuinely think in a short space of time we can be pushing for minimum top four – but more than that. He may be unknown for a lot of people, but he is top, top level. He will surprise a lot of people.

“Within the first week at Leicester I was convinced this was top, top level. I felt a bit stupid, I thought I knew a lot about football but he was teaching me things on a daily basis that I didn’t really know before. He has an aura, he can be strict, or gentle and soft – he has both sides.

We love to hear it – players are always going to big up their manager, but there really is a convincing level of detail in this praise.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall at his media presentation.

Faith – but with a healthy pinch of salt

It’s no surprise that KDH is an evangelist for Maresca – the coach was a major factor in the midfielder’s best season to date last time out, and has since show him huge faith by engineering the £30m move that brought him to Chelsea.

But one doesn’t have to be cynical either – we have our doubts about the whole plan, but if you can’t let yourself run away with the hopes that this coach could be the one who catapults us back into the running for the title again in July, when can you?