Former
Nigeria international Micheal Emenalo has broken his silence over his shock
exit from Chelsea football club.
Emenalo
left his post as Chelsea’s technical director last month for a new appointment
with French club Monaco.
There
was divided opinion on why he left Chelsea with many citing frosty relationship
between him and Chelsea coach Antonio Conte as the main reason.
Emenalo,
who played for the Super Eagles at the 1994 World Cup, however insisted he was
merely looking for something else after a decade in London and that there was
no bad blood.
“The
first thing to make clear is that Chelsea Football Club is built on the premise
that it can survive without any particular individual or group of individuals,”
he told Talk Sports.
“It’s
a club that is very solid and stable, so me leaving or anybody leading will not
affect anything that happens at the club, at least so I hope, and I think was a
part of the aspect of the policy.
“Nothing
happened. I had a wonderful 10 years at Chelsea, with positive pressure and a
lot of things that happened.
“I
just felt that things were in place and things looked very solid and very
stable and I needed a new challenge.
“When
you’ve been at a place for so long, I haven’t really had a chance to step out
and breathe and see what’s out there.
“I
have been very focused on everything Chelsea and it just came to a time, right
bang on ten years, where I felt it was time for me to go and do something
else.”
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