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Mark Cucorea has lamented Chelsea's decision to part ways with Enzo Moreska.

He joins Enzo Fernandez, who earlier this month said he did not understand the decision.

So are Chelsea's players now losing

faith in the club's hierarchy? All right, in with us today. We've got Liam Toomey and over

in Barcelona. We've got Paul Ballouce as well. All right. So in an exclusive interview with

the athletic, Marco Correa has had his say on the decisions made by Chelsea's ownership poll. You spoke to him. I mean, this was a really fascinating interview. What was Kukorea like first? Because I know he's got his perceptions here in the UK. You know, he sometimes seems like a little bit of a villain to opposition fans, doesn't he? Yeah, I mean, he does like that, but when you speak to him, you can see a really honest,

a really laid back person and a person that really, like, thinks about what he's saying

while I was doing the interview and the sense I got, is that he cared about how the team was going,

how the team is doing, and if Chelsea basically can perform at the highest level,

that's his biggest obsession. And in a way, that's what comes across in the interview, I guess,

because his frustration starts appearing just as we speak about the PSG. Tie in the Champions

League, I think this is a game that is key in a way for Chelsea players to see where they are as a project.

And the result and how it ended up, basically, it exposed how a big part of the dressing room feels.

And I think that Coquarella spoke from that side of his chest, basically.

And yeah, we could see that he's a player that he's been frustrated by the direction that Chelsea has been going over the last few months,

specifically with Enzomaeska's departure that has been a painful thing to go through for this dressing room, as we could see.

Did you get a sense of him being a leader in that Jess room? Because we often talk about the age profile of the Chelsea team.

He would be one of the slightly older ones,

what, at 26, 27? And he's been there, what, for four years now? So you'd think he'd sort of had massed some sort of status there? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You have the feeling that he's an influential member of that dressing room. I mean, when he signed for the club, Todd Boyle had just taken over the club, basically

Thomas Tuchel was the manager.

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