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Maresca has insisted that the club’s current squad is not a “mess”, telling reporters: “In the USA [during preseason] we had 26 or 27 players so [are there] Chelsea players, 42, 43, yes for sure. But they are not working with me every day. I don’t see them. So it is not a mess like it looks from outside, absolutely not.”