Maresca claims Gallagher's deal agreed 'for days or even weeks'

Enzo Maresca says he's 'sad' to see academy players leave Chelsea, but he understands why it has to be done.

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00:00This question is for the fans I don't know to be honest the only thing I can

00:04say is that it's not from today it's already days or weeks that the agreement

00:13is there is closed and then broke and then again so it's not something that

00:17it's in the last two three days it's already as I said days weeks so I think

00:23it's it's nothing new no I said already I think in USA that in this moment

00:30it's not only for Chelsea many clubs in this moment they are selling player from

00:36Academy that is very sad because at the end it's very sad because we all love

00:40you know I mentioned the other day in America in Italy we have Totti that he

00:45played with the Roma 20 years was his team we all love that but now in this

00:51moment the rules are a bit different and sometimes you need to sell your Academy

00:56player to have 100% profit and it's it's it's it's the situation but also

01:04the rules they are there so we need to we need to try to to to at least to try

01:09to respect the rules