Maresca Won’t Reject Manchester City Job – Carragher

Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has said that Enzo Maresca will not be the club’s manager next season. The Italian is being mooted as a successor to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he believes that what is going on behind the scenes at Chelsea will lead to another change in the Stamford Bridge dugout in the near future.

Carragher added that no ambitious coach will turn down the opportunity to manage the fantastic squad at Manchester City.

His words, “Curious that we hear him linked with the Manchester City job next summer – even with Guardiola still in place and the title race going strong. I note with interest that Maresca recently switched his representation to Jorge Mendes. There would be no ambitious coach in the world who would turn down the chance to manage the fantastic squad at City, although a few who might privately fear being the man after Pep.

“Maresca’s remarks after Chelsea’s win over Everton on Saturday suggested real unhappiness behind the scenes. He would not say who it was he felt had not supported him in that run of four games without a win since the victory over Barcelona – but it was easy to work out. It was the owners – Behdad Eghbali and Todd Boehly. It was also the sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart. That was before his name was mentioned in connection with the City job.

“I said on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football that I did not expect Maresca to be at Chelsea next season and nothing that has happened this week has changed my mind. Chelsea have a big game tomorrow at Newcastle United with both managers under a degree of pressure and Eddie Howe, like Maresca, dealing with an ownership that has its unique way of doing things.”

WOW.

Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.

The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.

On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.

The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.