Sources: Chelsea technique Leicester’s Maresca
Why Enzo Maresca customarily is a ‘factual match’ for Chelsea (2:33) Gab Marcotti and Don Hutchison debate who may well replace Mauricio Pochettino at Chelsea. (2:33) Note Ogden, Senior Author, ESPN FCMight per chance per chance also simply 27, 2024, 09:42 AM ET Chelsea have approached Leicester Metropolis for permission to consult with with manager
Why Enzo Maresca customarily is a ‘factual match’ for Chelsea (2:33)
Gab Marcotti and Don Hutchison debate who may well replace Mauricio Pochettino at Chelsea. (2:33)
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Note Ogden, Senior Author, ESPN FCMight per chance per chance also simply 27, 2024, 09:42 AM ET
Chelsea have approached Leicester Metropolis for permission to consult with with manager Enzo Maresca, sources have urged ESPN, after identifying the Italian as basically the most smartly-hottest candidate to prevail Mauricio Pochettino at Stamford Bridge.
Maresca, 44, guided Leicester to promotion lend a hand to the Premier League as winners of the Championship in his first campaign to blame this season and his success has triggered Chelsea’s house owners to invent a proper switch to rent Pep Guardiola’s gentle assistant at Manchester Metropolis.
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Used Brighton coach Roberto De Zerbi and Brentford‘s Thomas Frank are also below consideration to replace Pochettino, who left Chelsea by mutual consent after guiding the group of workers to a sixth-impart finish in the Premier League and the Carabao Cup closing throughout his one season price.
Maresca is regarded as a coach who favours a possession-based fully sport with a display screen file of giving opportunities to emerging formative years. Chelsea’s Cole Palmer and Romeo Lavia every worked with Maresca throughout their time collectively at Metropolis.
Sources have urged ESPN that Leicester will quiz compensation of spherical £9 million ($11.5m) for Maresca in the occasion that they enable their extremely-rated coach to consult with with Chelsea this week.
Maresca had a brief spell as head coach of Italian membership Parma in Serie B throughout the 2021-22 season having beforehand managed Metropolis’s reserve group of workers to the Premier League 2 title.
As a player, he gained Serie A with Juventus in 2002 to boot to 2 UEFA Cups and a Copa del Rey with Sevilla.
