Overview
- Rosenior said he called Dario Essugo to come on against Arsenal before deciding to keep Enzo Fernández and Andrey Santos in midfield.
- Essugo has not featured since brief Club World Cup cameos after a thigh injury on Portugal under-21 duty led to surgery and a layoff longer than the initial 12-week estimate.
- Signed from Sporting Lisbon for a reported £18.5m, Essugo was recruited in part because his underlying data resembles Moises Caicedo’s.
- Rosenior says Essugo is training very well and is close to involvement, with minutes to come once he deems the timing right.
- With Romeo Lavia still sidelined, reporting suggests Chelsea plan to pursue a midfielder in the summer to ease the load on Fernández and Caicedo.